this is a neat little thing

Crabtoes · Post by **Crabtoes** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:15 pm

i am probably reposting this, but i hope not

http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/200 ... n-seconds/

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:55 pm

Cool to see a big name embrace this, as the idea has been out a few years, but no big company seemed to adopt it and push it. Yes they are insane for installing your OS and programs too.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:36 pm

$60...

where can I buy it?

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:21 am

zooner wrote:$60...

where can I buy it?

Ram not included...unless you got 4x 1GB sticks of ram lying around.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:37 am

Unholy wrote:Ram not included...unless you got 4x 1GB sticks of ram lying around.

ram is cheap...

a system drive that'll blow the socks off of anything available with a total cost of under $250?

Heck, I've been thinking of upgrading my amd64 3000 after the x2 3800 comes out.

I'm debating to spend the money on something like this instead. Or, I could sell my cheetah/adaptec scsi setup and run this instead.

seems like a good deal considering the speed... oh yes, the SPEED!!! (YUM-YUM)

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:49 am

I already get XP pro booting up in seconds

I think I timed it to 10seconds and thats with a few startup things comming on.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:58 am

Sava700 wrote:I already get XP pro booting up in seconds I think I timed it to 10seconds and thats with a few startup things comming on.

I wouldn't even be concerned about boot times...

imagine the overall speed of your machine if the OS and some key programs are running directly from a ramdrive.

Firestorm ZERO · Post by **Firestorm ZERO** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:32 am

Here is another review of it with benchmarks

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:41 am

Firestorm ZERO wrote:Here is another review of it with benchmarks

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480

Nice article. Doesn't appear this would be worth the money to save 5 seconds on game load times.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:48 pm

Scott wrote:Nice article. Doesn't appear this would be worth the money to save 5 seconds on game load times.

oh well...

good article. not worth the investment.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:30 am

Is this type of thing more susceptible to data corruption if some sort of power irregularity occurs moreso then regular RAM/HDD combination?

Pie

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:48 am

thepieman wrote:Is this type of thing more susceptible to data corruption if some sort of power irregularity occurs moreso then regular RAM/HDD combination?

Pie

Lose power to the pc, battery runs out, lose whats on there.