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Ram Drives compactflash and solid state drives
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:28 am
by wuhlei
hey thought you guys might want to know about this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1M94t7M7am8
Pentium 2 128meg boot into xp under 1 min
The speeds insane! Its not as fast as a solid state drive but still pretty fast.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:09 am
by cirk2
but tha speed has Its price, Solid state (and CF) have smaller capacities and higher Prices, for now it is to expensive to be usefull. may ther will be som futur inventions that will make the prices drop.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:23 am
by wuhlei
cf is much cheaper then ssd I paid 50$ for 300x 16 gig I think its not bad.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:22 pm
by cirk2
ok I only rememberd that SSD is expensive
Have you an PCI Socket for the CF (If you have an desktop PC)?
May I upgrade my pc with one, then only for Windows, the rest on my 300Gb and 1TB SATA2 Drives. And I will need an bigger drive, Vista 64bit should need more place...
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:11 am
by gisabun
SSDs are quite expensive and currently are available in small disk sizes. I think about $800 of the price of the Mac Air is the SSD price.
Recently I've heard of a story about faulty SSD drives - almost frying themselves as they got to high.
Seagate may take SSD manufacturers to court as they (and I think Western Digital) have some type of patents on something related to disk manufacturing.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:51 am
by wuhlei
yeah you can get adapters to convert compactflash to ide or sata. make sure the speed is at least 233x and a popular name like scandisk