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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:22:19 -0700
From:      Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: you're not going to believe this.
Message-ID:  <a9f4a3860906231222r65faaf1cia6b68186c79f4791@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org>
References:  <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org>

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:07, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> wrote:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0you guys aren't going to believe what i just f=
ound on the web for
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the "900"]. =C2=A0i=
t was for the 9- and
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A010-inch screens. =C2=A0i was using konq which =
just segv'd so i am
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0taking a break and thought i'd share this.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0last night, i could barely believe the ten-inc=
h with a 40GB SSD.
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0these mini-notebooks take two memory chips. th=
ey just plug in.
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0i was googling around and found they have 32's=
 and even 128's.
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0so you can get 64 or up to 256Gigs of solid st=
ate disk ...
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0not in a year or two (or five or six), but now=
.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0i'll double and triple check to make sure this=
 isn't a sham, but
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0they had a thing on you-tube... =C2=A0Oh, and =
next time i see the
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0speech therapist, i'll lug my hugmongous think=
pad and demo what
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0i've done with my scripts and flite....
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A08 kilobux for a Doze speech dev my butt. with =
berkeley unix and
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0open source tools, you can have it for a few h=
undred bux.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0gary

For a small unit like this, SSD is really nice.

But, for my workstations/servers, I'm wondering if a pure
battery-backed RAM disk, in RAID1 with a regular hard drive, might be
the real screamer.

Kurt



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