Ram Drives compactflash and solid state drives

Post by **wuhlei** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:28 am

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.

Post by **cirk2** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:09 am

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.

Post by **wuhlei** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:23 am

cf is much cheaper then ssd I paid 50$ for 300x 16 gig I think its not bad.

Post by **cirk2** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:22 pm

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...

Post by **gisabun** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:11 am

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.

Post by **wuhlei** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:51 am

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