[ltp] solid state drive?

[Laurent]

Hi,

> I am interested in your comments on solid state drives?

They work fine if you know how to handel them. There
are some tricks and problems you should know about
( http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669 ), but google
will tell you more then you ever wanted to know.

The runtime will not change much. Buying a bigger battery is
the better way.

Using a CF Card for SSD works fine on PATA-Thinkpads. Even
MLC-cards will survive several years desktop usage. But
don't use EXT3, don't write lots of small files, never
defragment. EXT2 works very fine, tmp mounted on a ramfs
helps a lot.

cu