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jur:
USB write limitations are of concern if you are a storing browser cache items on it. With browsing there are many many writes going on all the time. I don't have any figures but obviously it is orders of magnitude higher than 10 writes/day.
But TCL can cater for this by not having a persistent home directory - you back up only a few times per day perhaps, and that would hopefully exclude the browser cache.
vinnie:
@thane: thanks, honestlythe box is more like a box for hamsters ;D
@jus: yes, and then with sufficient space in ram the you can unmount the flash drive :)
Lee:
The big limitation with USB drives on my older computers is...
The USB ports are all on the -back- of the boxes.
In my basement computer area ("the NOC", as I call it) I can get to the back or front of my museum pieces - a stack of three Compaq Deskpro EN - but not both the front and back. I have physically unplugged the floppy and CDROM drives in them since those are never used, so now the only thing I needed the front of the machine for was to reach the power switch. A few feet of bell wire, a momentary-on micro switch, some glue and I now have an auxiliary power switch on the back of each unit.
@ thane - if you haven't already done so, its time to put a new battery in that Compaq. Radio Shack stocks them.
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: Lee on November 30, 2009, 09:06:27 AM ---The big limitation with USB drives on my older computers is...
The USB ports are all on the -back- of the boxes.
--- End quote ---
What is about a simple USB extension cable?
vinnie:
--- Quote from: bmarkus on November 30, 2009, 09:21:00 AM ---What is about a simple USB extension cable?
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A solution less stable/artigianal?
Another cute solution could be similar to this: http://www.pcusacorp.com/product/CR-IN212XIO-1.html but it is less economic.
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