Booting of solid state memory

[beyoku]

take one of these adapters

and you can get compact flash memory for 130/2gig and 350/4gig.

If i booted and installed linux or windoze on the flash memory using the adapter (needs no drivers) why wouldnt this work? How fast do you think it would actually be. Ha any one tried this before or seen reviews.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I thought digital memory (CF, SD, etc) was only about 20-30MB\sec.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I thought digital memory (CF, SD, etc) was only about 20-30MB\sec.

Yes, but the respsonse time is essentially nil compared to a hard drive -- and response time is much more important for most desktop usage. And a fast hard drive is probably not going to give much more than 40-50MB sustained transfer anyway, so you're not losing much on that front.

There's no reason it wouldn't work, but you'll rapidly thrash the flash memory to death if you have a swapfile or OS running on the CF card. The memory is only good (generally) for a few hundred thousand rewrites; a running OS might do several writes per second, ruining the card in only a few hundred hours.

 

[Gnoad]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I thought digital memory (CF, SD, etc) was only about 20-30MB\sec.

Yes, but the respsonse time is essentially nil compared to a hard drive -- and response time is much more important for most desktop usage. And a fast hard drive is probably not going to give much more than 40-50MB sustained transfer anyway, so you're not losing much on that front.

There's no reason it wouldn't work, but you'll rapidly thrash the flash memory to death if you have a swapfile or OS running on the CF card. The memory is only good (generally) for a few hundred thousand rewrites; a running OS might do several writes per second, ruining the card in only a few hundred hours.

Yep, if not sooner.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Yea actually a friend of mine has a distro of linux running off a compact disk using an adapter. He says it's fast enough for his application uses but I've never had a chance to really check it out. I've seen it playing videos ect. though but that doesn't help much I guess. But yea, it's possible!

 

[FishTankX]

Hate to bust your bubble, but the fastest CF cards right now are barley pushing 10MB/s.

Also, they wear out if you put a swapfile on them.