Hardware :: Flash Ram Wearing/durability/life

Jun 20, 2009

I've been trying to find out the mttf/mtbf of a flash ram storage device and it seems that it isn't measured in time but in number of reads/writes/erases. Some sources say that most flash ram is good for about 100,000 write/erase cycles, some of the sites that sell these devices specify lifetime in read/write cycles. the wikipedia article on flash ram seems to state that only writing or erasing flashram blocks cause it to wear. does reading not cause any kind of wear on a flash device?

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Fedora :: Shelf Life Of Files On USB Flash Drive?

Oct 16, 2010

still would like to see some actual LAB DATA - but the info here is satisfactory as a "general rule of thumb". I was wondering if I put files on a USB flash drive & left it sit on the shelf, how long it would be before those files would start to deteriorate? - This would have nothing to do with the read/write cycle as in the "shelf time" it wouldn't be used.

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Hardware :: Using A Compact Flash Card As A Hard Drive Improve Battery Life?

Aug 30, 2010

I am wanting to replace the hard drive on my laptop with a Compact Flash Card. I bought a card and a adapter, but I am seeing that there are a lot of downsides to this (e.g. the card is slower, writes should be conserved because of limited write cycles, etc..) plus, in order to change the hard drive in my laptop (ibook g3 clamshell) you literally have to disassemble the entire thing! I mainly wanted to do this project to increase my battery life. However, some people say that it doesn't make much of a difference, while others say it is wonderful. So, to those that have done this mod, how much of a difference did it make for you?

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Ubuntu Servers :: Wearing A Sombrero With Samba?

Aug 24, 2010

I have a problem with a samba setup and need some assistance. currently I one share with sub dir under it and i can access the file fine from my mac however when i log in with windows im getting a error message saying that windows could not find the resource. I am familiar with the gui version but Im in the process of setting up a home server and im trying to do all this through ssh terminal. here is a copy of my smb.conf file. Mind you this is still a work in progress but if anything is out of the ordinary or should be corrected please let me know. I have it setup to make a share called media and share whatever is in that folder. /home/media~ i have already chmod 777 the dir btw.

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# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
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# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the

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Ubuntu :: Install Second Life On 10.04?

Jun 18, 2010

Ive downloaded the second life file and tryed to install via terminal, and heres what I got,

Code:
creative@kyle-desktop:~/Desktop$ ./SecondLife-i686-2.0.1.203797.tar.bz2.part
bash: ./SecondLife-i686-2.0.1.203797.tar.bz2.part: cannot execute binary file how do I install this game

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Jan 26, 2011

When I was using the LIVE CD, it used to popup a little box on the top right hand side asking whether I would like to install 3rd party drivers or not. Now it doesn't do that any more, that I've installed it. How do I install them, and once I have, can I use Second Life on Linux?

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Feb 23, 2010

Is Ubunutu better than Windows 7 for general battery life?

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May 12, 2010

So, I never got great battery life with 9.04 or 9.10, but it was acceptable. Here's the thing, with Windows 7 I can get about two hours. With Ubuntu I'm lucky if I get an hour, and I mean really lucky. I have selected to dim the brightness and to spin down the HDD when possible, it hasn't helped a whole lot. What I don't see is an option to underclock the CPU, which is done rather easily in Kubuntu.

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Mar 11, 2011

Does HDD Life get affected due to repeated partitioning and formatting ..I guess most of the partitioning programs (Gparted , fdisk etc) do only a quick format and not a Low Level format...

So theoretically by formatting it means only deleting right?

Other than the data loss , there is no need to worry abt wear and tear of the HDD (physical wear and tear due to repeated writing of the Head on the device which leads to Bad Blocks)

I am formatting and trying different distros left,right and centre almost 2 times in a week as I got a spare computer and I have installed a new HDD !

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Hardware :: Measure Life Of A CF Card

Jun 9, 2009

I have debian sarge distro installed on CF instead of HDD. The problem is once in couple of months, my machine crashes showing IO errors. There is no option to replace CF with a HDD.

Is there any way I can measure the life of a CF card? I mean what parameters do you use to specify the life of a CF card (number of R/Ws etc)? and, how can I measure those parameters?

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Jan 27, 2010

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May 3, 2011

HDD vs SSD durability

After reading Jeff Atwood's recent blog post on solid state drives, I'm somewhat deterred in wanting to own one. I basically want to use solid state drives in my home network for the following purposes (all machines running 64bit Linux):

My main (pwn3r) desktop computer. This will be my main workstation for work, video encoding, etc. This will be running an Intel 980x 6-core processor, making it a beast. My hard disk configuration will be:

RAID-0: 2 Crucial 128GB Solid State drives for the main operating system(s), essentially providing 256GB of incredibly fast storage.

RAID-1: 2 WD 2TB Hard Disk drives for media and backup storage.

My network firewall computer. This will be running Untangle on my home network for content filtering and firewalling (if that's a word). It will be running an Intel Atom D525 dual core 1.8GHz processor. The hard disk configuration will consist of a single small 16-32GB solid state drive for the operating system and little, if anything, else.

My home HTTP/SFTP/file/backup server. This will be running a dual-core Intel i3 processor; it will be used for some video encoding, as a local DLNA server, a HTTP server for a few largely static files and perhaps some interactive scripts, a SSH server, possibly OpenVPN, and will be used to back up critical files over the network. It will be running RAID-X (where X > 0), meaning RAID-1 or RAID-5 or 6 for fast, redundant data storage, as well as a small SSD for the operating system.

I'm not exactly made of money, and I can't really count on buying four new SSDs every year or so. I can understand replacing them in computer number 1 once a year... maybe, but for the other computers which won't be utilizing the drive very much (ie: they're not power machines), it seems ridiculous to buy new drives this often.

My question is this: can I actually depend on solid state drives like I would on hard disk drives? Also, is this the best economic option? I'd like to save as much power and heat as I can, and solid state drives seem to be the best option at this point.

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Ubuntu :: Netbook Battery Life 1 Hour In 10.04

Apr 30, 2010

Installed Lucid netbook-remix on my Aspire One with SSD and 3 cell battery last night. Under 9.10 I got 2hr 15mins with wifi and up to 3hr without wifi. This morning on the train to work I booted the new release only to find that without wifi I'm now getting only 1hr 20mins battery life (fully charged battery). I have the brightness turned down low to try and save a little power but it makes no difference. What can I do. As this is a netbook-remix release having just over an hour of battery life is plain awful and impractical.Any suggestions to increase battery life?

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Dec 3, 2010

Any ideas how you unfreeze a computer?

Last night I decided to download a few games using a different tool to the Synaptic Package Manager. I can't think of its name at the moment but it gave a brief description of each app with a tiny screen-shot. I'd like to find out its name but the only thing that will move is the mouse pointer.

I left the computer alone last night thinking that I'd given it too much to do and thought that it would resolve itself when I woke up. Sadly the computer is still frozen with only the pointer moving around the screen.

Is there any way that I can get the computer back to life?

Or is my only option to hit the Off Button?

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Jan 6, 2011

I haven't gotten an answer from Second Life fora so I thought I'd ask here. I'm using Ubuntu (lucid) x86_64. Totem, Rhythmbox etc all work correctly but I fail to get any streaming audio from any of the Second Life clients I've tried. In some cases I can copy the media url into rhythmbox and run the sound from there but in most cases the url is "hidden".

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Feb 24, 2011

So I've been using Ubuntu on a Toshiba L645d, and after a few hiccups with the sound and wireless, it's finally working well now. However, the battery is still a bit less when compared to Windows 7 (2:00 vs 2:35, but it came with optimizations on W7 so that might be the reason. A comparison of power used: 25w of power on Ubuntu vs 17.5 on W7.

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Mar 3, 2011

I've used an older version of ubuntu before, when it was brown and orange. I ran it off of a 8 gb solid state express card. Used it for about a month, didn't like it because I didn't know how to install anything and because it was slow (because ran off of a express card). Now, I'm looking to try ubuntu 10.10 on a partition of a main hard drive, specifically on the chrome os laptop when it comes out.

Now, I've read up that the battery life for ubuntu is mysteriously worse than on what would run a mac or a windows. This battery life issue is driving me away from ubuntu. How much battery life would I actually get for ubuntu if my battery life lasts 4 hours running a windows 7? And how much hard drive space do I need to partition to install ubuntu?

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Aug 27, 2010

I recently read about recommendations for increasing the life span of optical media as follows:-

1) storage at constant temperature in the range 41F-68F with relative humidity 30%-50%
2) no exposure to direct sunlight
3) marking only with water soluble markers

How water soluble marker becomes a factor in the life span of an optical media ?

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General :: Install The Second Life Client In Puppy ?

Nov 15, 2009

I am extremely green when it comes to puppy but I would like to know how to install the Second Life client in Puppy. There are two Linux clients: [url] and [url]

I have some 2.14 and 2.17 puppys, and maybe some other versions. Can someone tell me whether either of those clients will run, and then

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General :: Which Linux Distribution Is Best Out Of The Box For Battery Life On Netbooks?

Nov 14, 2010

I've been using Ubuntu for the past four years, but I recently bought a Dell Mini 1012, and while Ubuntu 10.04 is wonderful in every way, it is giving me quite poor results in terms of battery life, compared to Windows 7 which is also installed on the device. I have been able to get 4.5 hours out of Ubuntu,compared to the 8 hours I have been able to get with Windows 7 Starter. I have tried everything suggested here in order to get better battery life out of Ubuntu, but without success.I'm wondering if I might have better success with another distribution.Are there any Linux distributions available that can claim longer battery life than others, on netbooks and in general? This question can be answered objectively if it is backed up with hard data from based on benchmarks,

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Apr 1, 2010

I have a Samsung R510 laptop, with a short-life battery (holds up to 1.5 hours) Is there any way to make my laptop work longer by using some tweaks? Maybe it is possible to change the CPU according to the load?

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Apr 13, 2010

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is there a way to move distributions in a local mirror? apt-move seems only capable of rearranging the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/ .

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Ubuntu Networking :: Can't Install Ndiswrapper For The Love Of Life?

Jul 21, 2010

I've usually never had much of a problem setting up wireless with ndiswrapper and ubuntu. I decided to give KUduntu a try, and for the love of me I cannot install ndiswrapper:

Code:
Reading package lists Done Building dependency tree Reading state information Done Package ndiswrapper-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However, the following packages replace it: ndiswrapper-common E: Package ndiswrapper-utils has no installation candidate I'm pretty sure I've added all the repositories in the sources. What am I doing wrong?

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Ubuntu :: Extend Battery Life On Dell Mini 10v?

Jan 8, 2011

I bought a dell mini 10v last spring and I have always gotten around 2-2.5 hrs max battery life. Is that all this 3-cell can pull off?

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Feb 4, 2011

I currently use windows 7 on my laptop which gives me on average on 2 hours of battery life. If replace windows with ubuntu, would it allow more battery life time? I am a student, and I always have battery life issue when I work at uni.

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Jul 6, 2011

i recently purchased my second laptop, primarily for linux. When i chose it, my main concern was battery life. Just to make a side note. When i say battery life, i mean how long the computer takes until the battery goes flat. Not how many years/ect it takes till the battery will no longer hold charge.

My new computer claims to be able to get 10 hours. Although it's a bit off, i get a satisfying little bit over 6 hours, from full charge. This is running Windows 7. I couldn't wait to put Linux on my new computer, i have, but it just isn't satisfying because i only get about 4 hours while running linux, tried three different distros, and all roughly the same.

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General :: Live Life In Text Based World

Jan 13, 2011

There's probably not too many Linux users how have their desktop Linux distros set to be console only as opposed to using an X server or a GUI. There's plenty of reasons to take this route and many ways to go about it, and I'll attempt to show you a (mostly) unbiased view on this choice, especially centered around the way I do it. Here's my setup: Dell Inspiron 1545, Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM. I have Windows XP, Ubuntu 8.04, and my main OS: Debian Squeeze.


UBUNTU USERS!!!

Debian Squeeze is probably the best option for a Ubuntu convert. Making Ubuntu console based is kinda hard and not recommended by me because it's such a large OS, and living in a text only computer is generally a minimalist idea, so having such a bulky base is both memory intensive and kinda gross. Debian uses apt-get, so people who grew up in a Ubuntu environment should feel at home with the sudo commands and such........

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Jun 3, 2010

I'm using xubuntu on a box that has 2 drives. One is quite small mounted as / and the other larger drive is mounted as /home Both drives are IDE The /home drive has had some failure in the past & occasionally creates errors. Is there any way of identify which sectors are bad (or good) and isolating them to try & get some more use out of the drive?

It won't be used for storing valuable data.It is an old box for visitors to use. But it would be handy to use it to store some large read-only audio files. I've installed smartctl & could post output from there if you think it is useful. I can't work out how to interpret the information.

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Mar 12, 2010

I use Slackware64 -current. I will buy a SSD drive, normaly the filesystem in my laptop is EXT4. Is there anything that I need to know? How to improve life of the SSD? Is journaling a good option? How to disable?

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Dec 25, 2009

Since I began using F11, Midnight Commander takes a life to start. Previous versions of Fedora didn't give me any problem. I know many of you don't use it, but for those who needs MC, anyone is having the same trouble? F11 x86_64.

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