Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

Posted Apr 6, 2011 18:36 UTC (Wed) by taggart (subscriber, #13801)
In reply to: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives by alonz
Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

The compression and deduplication of the Sandforce controller show big benefits over the controllers that don't have them. But those benefits are lost if your data isn't compressable/redundant like if it's encrypted :(

Live CD

Posted Apr 20, 2011 19:12 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

What about a live CD that you boot from, type "yes I want to trash my flash drive" and it automatically tries different partition schemes, runs benchmarks, and tells you which one is fast? Don't trust what the drive says, just try it a bunch of possible ways and see what works for real. (I'd pay $14.95 for the iso assuming the underlying code was Free.)