This is an older trick, but I thought it made sense to share it again in the context of Netbooks. Because some netbooks can have pretty limited storage, it might be helpful to install some of your apps on thumb drives and only use them when you need them. This can save room and keep you netbook running faster.
Check it out:
Here’s a good Eee PC hack that will allow you to run your Windows XP faster with SSDs. This could probably apply to any netbook with SSDs.
Cheaper SSD drives like our Core V1 and Core V2 series have limitations with random writes filling up the write buffer on the drive and causing the SATA controller to pause while this is flushed. The reason for this is Nand MLC drives at present have to erase before they write…hence you get added latency. So every bit written to the drive has to be preceded by a bit erased, the drive can not write
Here’s a re-cap of news and reviews of the new Dell Inspiron Mini 9:
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 internal components hardware review
