ASUS Eee PC [MERGED]

[Jun aka Pekto]

This has been bothering me a lot everytime I see an Asus Eee laptop on sale, di ba this laptop is flash diskbased? What will happen after 5 years when the battery for the flash dies? Will your OS and everything installed on it be erased? Kasi, forgive me tech people if im wrong, ang flash memory is the same as RAM but will not be erased coz meron etong battery to preserve the data (excluding the laptop's battery itself). Your inputs will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

That depends. Does the Eee PC use an SSD with flash memory (non-volatile) or dram (volatile* and similar to the ram in computers)? I thought most tiny SSD's used flash memory which hold their contents without need of a battery.

*volatile require a battery to ensure the contents doesn't get erased when the computer is turned off. Sort of like the RAM drives used by Commodore Amigas and early pc's with MS-DOS which lose their contents once the computer is turned off.

Also, I wouldn't defrag an SSD because first, it wouldn't need it. Second, writes to an SSD shortens the lifespan. A defrag does a tremendous amount of writes.