In a vague attempt to bring this back on topic, I'm currently trying to build virt-viewer on my RPi2 (which arrived yesterday) in order to act as a client for a VM hosted on a machine using an SSD as the only HD (it's just a test setup, don't need lots of storage). Incidentally the performance of the VM server seems to be far more affected by processor performance - the VM is noticeably slower than running the same thing on a server with better processor and spinning discs (using an original RPi as a client, given I haven't got RPi2 working yet - with the other server the RPi is the limitation, but not here with a less powerful server). Apologies for anybody that lot is gobbledegook to, but then I think I am the only person on this thread with a TTY window to an RPi2 open as I type ;) Chris On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Peter Loron wrote= : > On 2015-02-06 09:21, Herbert Graf wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 23:17 +1300, RussellMc wrote: > >> > > >> > > - Windows 10 will run on it(!) > >> > > >> > >> I (sincerely) hope that W10 will run better on it than W8.1 does on a > >> typical HP netbook with 1 GB of RAM. > >> > >> I have 3 netbooks with XP Pro, Win 7, Win 8.1 > >> > >> Each came with that OS installed. > >> I do not recall what processor each has, but the W8.1 version is the > >> newest, and makes treacle look fast. > >> I keep thinking I should try readyboost (so easy to do or downgrade > >> the OS > >> but neither has happened so far. > > > > FWIW I have a laptop that I was ready to give up on. Beautiful (cheap) > > machine, nice screen, good touchscreen (Asus X202E with B800 Intel > > Celeron), but the thing CRAWLED (win8.1). > > > > Every time I brought it out of standby the harddrive would thrash for > > minutes at a time, bringing the whole machine to a standstill. Fresh > > booting would help a little, but booting took forever. > > > > For "fun", I built another win8.1 machine and after a few days noticed > > the same symptom: thrashing of the HD after coming out of standby. > > > > Looking online it appears that's just what Win8.1 does, it really kills > > performance. > > > > Since the HD in the machine started to show SMART errors, I decided to > > replace it. I replaced it with a 256GB SSD (Crucial MX100 I think). > > > > When I powered the machine the first time I almost fell over. The > > difference wasn't night and day. The difference was zombie/vampire > > apocolypse vs. the garden of Eden. > > > > The machine feels so much faster it's astonishing. I used to only keep > > one app open at a time, and would regularly close tabs on my browser in > > the hope of keeping performance up. > > > > Now I don't even consider that sort of stuff. > > > > I'd recommend swapping every spinning rust disk drive you have that's > > used as an OS drive with an SSD, your life depends on it... :) > > > > TTYL > > Oh, yes. SSD is absolutely the way to go for your main laptop/desktop > drive. Spinning disks still have a place in large arrays and/or cheap > bulk storage. > > I refuse to own a machine that does not have an SSD. The difference in > experience, as you say, is amazing. > > Do note, that they tend to have more abrupt failure modes than spinning > disks. Make sure you have stuff backed up. > > -Pete > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .