Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
How reliable and durable are SD Cards and Flash memory. Im thinking of getting an netbook, one of those little EeePC things but the earlier models have limited internal Flash memory.
Never had any fail. My oldest one is 64 MB, and I had that when it was state of the art.
If you do get an Eee and it has Xandros on it, I'd advise you to install a proper distro on it. I've had xPUD and Crunchbang recommended for the purpose. With Xan-dross on the Eee (or at least, my Eee) you can't use the USB for anything else if you have an internet dongle plugged in.
If you then want to use anything else in the USB port(s) you have to remove the dongle and reboot first.
The dongle won't work if you have a SD card in the slot either.
Other distros installed on the Eee don't suffer from this failing, I'm told.
I believe you can get at least 32 GB SD cards - but at a price. (8 GB is currently around £23, but I am told that it's cheaper on the continent.)
So, extra storage would be in the shape of Flash drives or SD cards.
How reliable are they for storing stuff? I read somewhere about the 100,000 rewrite limitation, but how true is this.
That's hardly a limitation. Don't forget, your Eee will have similar 'limitations'...