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Can anyone explain how SSD disks are handled by the BeFS? I was just reading about a new solid state laptop, and some comments by users... These two were of interest to me:

"SSD has a finite life. Each sector can only be rewritten a certain number of times before it won't take new data. There are algorithms that spread the writes over the entire drive, so instead of 10,000-100,000 writes to one sector, you get a trillion writes for the entire drive. That'll take quite some time - 650KB/sec *continuous* for 10-100 years. That kind of abuse will kill most hard drives, and your computer would be obsolete by then.

Well as I've metion elsewhere I'm going to be getting a new laptop pretty soon, and I'm looking at a few models. I was hoping the Haiku comunity would like to offer there insight and opinions. I'm on a budget to get a laptop and truthfully all of these are a bit over that limit but I'm trrying to get one of these if I can.

Hi all -

As mentioned, I'm running Haiku on QEmu, and am very keen to try out the bleeding-edge Firefox 3.0 (the one which has just had the bug-fixes to SQLite and so on ... ).

So, I'm just wondering - when I'm in Haiku on QEmu, is it possible to access the Firefox bz2 that I've downloaded? It doesn't look like it is, but maybe there's someone out there who knows a trick or two ..... :-)