ARM and OMV - What do I have to know?

Haha, Ryeco is reading this. He has one of these devices I believe. I have been looking at getting one just to play with.

He is talking about how flash does not last long running Debian, the limited amount of reads/writes.

No. SSDs are not critical. Flashdrives have much less read/write cycles.
Many people here use SSDs.

The Problem isn't the write cycles but rather the missing garbage collection / trim which spreads writes over all cells and not just onto the same ones as done on normal flash drives.

Greetings
David

I have done several different tests on my RPi's and Cubieboards. The latest long term test on my Cubieboard was ahving it running Cubian a Wheezy with iRedMail mailserver installed. It booted from the internal Nand and used a ssd as systemdrive. After 4 months of continuous uptime i took it down because i needed the SSD for an other projekt.
My conclusion is that if you setup such small arm units up and use the nand and an external disk you can have very stable system and power efficient.

At full CPU throttle and disk activity the combo used 3,5 watts on the primary supply. At idle it used 1,8 watts.

When OMV is released on Wheezy i might be building a small power efficient nas with a cubieboard and a my 1T seagate 2,5" drive.

I wish they would build a small arm device that had a case and 2 hot swap slots for 2.5 inch drives. It would be pretty cool, a perfect mini OMV.

Because he is lazy like a sloth...

Greetings
David

Haha, Kristen Bell is from Michigan. So is her husband.

I just don't like wasting time. Once you go Hot Swap it's hard to go back to being slow like a sloth in changing your drives.