With the new breed of RISC OS computers coming onto the market thick and
fast, I'm considering my storage options for a Pi, and it made me wonder
whether it was worth using an old 2.5inch drive, or a decent sized pen
drive (or buy an SSD - it's transformed my Windows Laptop!).

I'm happy to boot from Filecore format and then use FAT32FS to keep
everything on a second drive, as I understand that FAT32FS is much faster
than the filecore format presently.

Does anyone have any real-feel comparison experience? Do the bottlenecks in
the USB system on a BeagleBoard or RPi mean that a pen drive feels just as
fast as a hard drive?


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          Andy Marks <metallic@ugkateway.net> wrote:

> With the new breed of RISC OS computers coming onto the market thick and
> fast, I'm considering my storage options for a Pi, and it made me wonder
> whether it was worth using an old 2.5inch drive, or a decent sized pen
> drive (or buy an SSD - it's transformed my Windows Laptop!).

You can get USB cases for 2.5 drive from ebay for only a few pounds, 
so if you have a suitable drive already it is worth doing, even if you 
end up using it for backup.


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Jess                   Iyonix