I am not sure why yet, but ATTO seems to give markedly higher results for write speed than any other way I test. any gamer reading this is scoffing right now, but just to think of this device being used for heavy gaming in the first place, i'll just scoff right back. i hope all the people that are buying the 20G 900 with the intention to change it over to XP at least give linux a chance, they may realize they don't need windows as much as they thought they did. 4GB for most linux desktop distributions is plenty of OS space, whereas people that still insist on using windows will pull their hair out trying to get all their programs onto the primary SSD, but windows is quite frankly too bloated and inefficient for said 4 gigs. "This split to 4GB and 16GB drives on 900 is just stupid." I think it has a lot to do with the fact that these eee pc's were originally designed with linux in mind.
I now have no problems with it what so ever even though its only a 2G! To the point, im fine with the first drive as it is, BUT, it would be nice too have a much bigger first drive, which may now be possible with that SSD mod thats just been posted recently.ĭo you have access to a windowes 900 so you could test if it's 8G ssd has the same speed as the 700 8G sdd? That could make it worthwhile to buy a 12G instead of the 20G. Linux on the other allowed me to delete the page file and XP complained about it, so i made a new pagefile of about 30mb, leaving nearly a GB free. The pagefile alone takes up too much space on the fist drive, being a 2G i had about 10mb at the best of times to play with, XP being stuburn wouldn't remove the pagefile on the first drive even though i instructed it to use another drive. I have the 2g eee and iv managed to get XP on it with the programs i want installed on an 8GB flash drive that i'v integrated into it via usb.
tech people install some to second and some to first depending their needs. Travis, most people just click yes, yes and ok. remember what eee used to stand for?ĭo most people using the 900 with XP installed put the OS on the 4G SSD and programs on the 8/16G SSD? It's ok for me, but not for the target customer of these devices. I have heard so many "normal" users having problems with full 4GB drive. I think the current configuration is just fine, they would be really no point for a larger first drive, since you would still be stuck with 2 drives, and splitting your files over 2 SSD is a little impractical. This would make the EEE cost about the same as a regular laptop. Anything over 16GB has to be spit between 2 SSD, otherwise you are looking at hefty prices and speed loss. Well, the problem is that there just aren't any affordable SSD over 16GB on the market, not to mention fast enough for the OS.