Re: Running freenet off an SD card?

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On Saturday 10 July 2010 08:00:31 Juiceman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:56 AM, pineapple <pineapplecoward-/[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> > Has anyone tried running freenet off an SD card or thumb drive? =C2=A0I=
s the speed
> > sufficient for freenet?
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> Emailing this again because I forgot to CC the mailinglist....
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> Freenet's usage pattern does not lend itself to flash SSDs or SD cards
> due to the large number of small, random access writes.
> Freenet is extremely hard on disks, many a regular hard drive has
> succumbed to it.
>=20
> It *will* wear any flash device out much quicker than normally a user wou=
ld.
>=20
> That being said, a very conservative node, configured to use only a
> few max peers and a small datastore, logging turned completely off,
> only used for small downloads, browsing and inserting a few small
> files (for example a thumb drive you could take with you somewhere,
> post a blog or upload some important document and go back offline
> shortly thereafter) "might" be feasible.  You would want to use one
> with fast specifications and don't expect too much...
>=20
> If you try this, let us know how it works out.

Also it's good to point out that modern flash disks with proper wear levell=
ing will do fine with Freenet. But this is likely not true of cheap, small,=
 slow portable storage devices such as SD cards.

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