On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Javier Perez pepebuho@gmail.com wrote:
Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% of its capacity. It will also be much safer >than having it on an external drive, especially if it's a flash drive.
I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash system is supposed to give for the OS. Specially given that it is an old system.
IMHO this is a terrible idea. A $10 USB stick is not the same as a real SSD. The I/O speeds, especially write speeds, are very different (for one thing the SSD is connected via a SATA interface, not a USB port). Also, a USB stick will wear out a lot quicker if it's used as a root filesystem with /tmp. Either buy a proper SSD or use a partition on the rotating drive. Note that a real SSD can go about twice as fast as a SATA 2 port, which is probably what you have on your machine, but it will still be dramatically faster than a USB stick.
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