onboard flash?

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:44 -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> > anyone know much about this?  I will use old drives for the os(es) but
> > hopefully a huge new drive for video.  i'd really like to have it
> 
> The OS is unlikely to take up more than a few GB and there will be 
> relatively little OS related disk activity so I recommend just putting the 
> OS and the media data on the same drive[1].  Running an extra disk just 
> for the OS would be a waste of energy.
> 
> [1] or set of drives if using RAID.
> 

thanks rob, i hadn't thought of it that way.  hmm, i wonder if it'd be
worthwhile to run the os off of some kind of flash memory.  haven't even
checked lately, is it now possible to run linux off of onboard flash?
do lots of MB's have onboard flash now?  need to check that out...

m

> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 
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