On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, John Watlington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I would recommend that you use a class 6 or class 10 full size SD card for this purpose.<br>
One of the Sandisk Extreme III cards, for example. The extra cost is worth it for the server.<br>
There is a huge difference in card performance, especially for small file writes, and<br>
the new larger sized (8+GB) microSD cards tend to be especially bad.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>It's an 8 GB Patriot SDHC class 6, which has always been really snappy. I actually used an initial iteration of the XSXO for a couple of weeks last month for an extended "maintenance window" while I diddled around backing up, cleaning out the dust bunnies, and reinstalling my regular XS. My users couldn't tell the difference as far as Jabber went. I did have to make sure to not keep a local login up, as I had the XSXO on the floor in the pantry next to the DSL modem and the cats would walk on the XO's keyboard. "Darn it, cat, you're not root!"<br>
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Great write-up, by the way.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
wad<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Thanks! I've been meaning to get this set up in anticipation of winter storms and hoped others would find it useful. Not only as a power friendly backup, but it lowers the barriers to entry for running your own Jabber and Apache if you can't dedicate a "real" computer but do have an XO-1 and a spare SD card.<br>
<br>Anna Schoolfield<br>Birmingham<br>