11-29-2017, 04:54 PM
Just my thoughts and findings............
It seems to me that for the use your PCs are being put to, a HDD may not be needed at all. A class 10 32GB or 64GB SDHC card in a usb single card reader (which cost £1 in UK money for the reader) can have LinuxLite fully installed (not a live system). It gives a fast system with no spinning disc to suffer shock damage and the SD card can easily be cloned to provide a backup system. Whats more, the usb reader with its sdhc card can just be unplugged and stored for security needs. Even a 32GB card has many GBs of free space after LL has been installed and lots of other applications added. And the read/write life cycle of good quality SDHC cards is now so good. I have been running linux systems on class 10 SDHC cards for many years now without failures.
But ..... don't use cheap memory sticks, they are far too slow.
It seems to me that for the use your PCs are being put to, a HDD may not be needed at all. A class 10 32GB or 64GB SDHC card in a usb single card reader (which cost £1 in UK money for the reader) can have LinuxLite fully installed (not a live system). It gives a fast system with no spinning disc to suffer shock damage and the SD card can easily be cloned to provide a backup system. Whats more, the usb reader with its sdhc card can just be unplugged and stored for security needs. Even a 32GB card has many GBs of free space after LL has been installed and lots of other applications added. And the read/write life cycle of good quality SDHC cards is now so good. I have been running linux systems on class 10 SDHC cards for many years now without failures.
But ..... don't use cheap memory sticks, they are far too slow.
1) Lenovo T520 i5 LL3.8 8GB ram, fast & stable
2) Medion P4 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, quite fast & stable
3) eeePC 901 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, fast & stable
4) eeePC 701 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, slower & stable but small and light enough to travel with me to New Zealand when visiting family in Blenheim.
2) Medion P4 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, quite fast & stable
3) eeePC 901 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, fast & stable
4) eeePC 701 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, slower & stable but small and light enough to travel with me to New Zealand when visiting family in Blenheim.