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Couldn't I theoretically...

I supposed you can although you can do the same with the Gigabyte I-Ram which uses DDR SDRAMs. Of course, the drams are volatile and will require constant power (it uses a battery for back up). I'm not sure what is the price range of the CFC-ADA1 compare to the I-ram.
 
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
wouldnt you still be limited by the ide bus? i duno how fast that is so maby not.
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The PCI and IDE bus max out at 133MB/s which may seem slow but doesn't edo ram run at a slower speed than that?
 
Maybe I'm missing something here, but aren't motherboards usually limited to four PATA IDE devices? And you'd probably have at least one taken up, already. That means you would only be able to use three adapters--or two if you need RAID.

Anyway, is flash memory faster than a hard disk? I had thought it was slower.
 
You arguably could, but compact-flash RAM isn't like SDRAM, in that it is by no means fast. Seek times would likely be better than a standard HDD, but sustained transfer speeds would be much slower in that kind of setup. If you want a fast RAM-based disk, take the iRAM suggestion.
 
Originally posted by: Overkiller
The Gigabyte I-Ram is the way to go.
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Wouldn't the gigabyte I-ram be more expensive than the setup I thought of? And to answer a question asked a bit earlier, in order to get 8 devices, I'd add a PATA PC133 card. The reason for doing this would be that because a pentium based system is limited to 128MB ram, you'd need more ram for it to be really functional when running more modern operating systems.
 
Wouldn't the gigabyte I-ram be more expensive than the setup I thought of?
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Depends on how much those adapters cost, and also are you factoring in the cost of the PATA add-in card? I'd imagine getting a comparable size iRAM drive wouldn't cost much more than the costs of the PATA card, the adapters, and the flash cards, but you never know.

If you're really serious about this idea, the iRAM does make the most sense, especially from a performance standpoint. It sounds like you want to approximate the performance of DRAM on the drive you are building, and flash memory is not going to do this (or even come close). The iRAM and some decent SDRAM will at least get you in the ballpark though.
 
Is this a joke? Why would you spend any money trying to speed up a pentium/pentium 2? Use it as is or upgrade before investing in an exotic and ineffective solution like the one you proposed.
 
Originally posted by: Penth
Is this a joke? Why would you spend any money trying to speed up a pentium/pentium 2? Use it as is or upgrade before investing in an exotic and ineffective solution like the one you proposed.
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Don't you think that this could be done cheaply? I said 32-64MB CF cards in a lot on ebay because nobody would really want em anymore.
 
32-64MB CF cards, will give you approx 2 gb. I'm not sure how much will this cost you. But with the I-Ram with 4 slots you can insert 512mb sticks which will have a total cost of about $160.00. The I-ram will cost you about $75.00 while the SATA adapter will cost you another $40.00. That's approx $275.00 for a 2 GB ram drive. My questions is how will you fit those 32 pieces of 64mb CF on that CFC-ADA-1adapter?
 
Not that it really needs to be said again, but RAIDing a few CF cards like that will not get you anywhere near the performance you need, and will have serious long-term reliability issues with excessive usage. Either get the Gigabyte I-RAM (where the heck do you find one, anyway?), or get a new computer. Actually, just get a new computer, because something that old is not worth pouring money into.
 
Originally posted by: GamerExpress
OMGWTF why would you even bother to try something like that with the machine you are running???
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I dunno, seems fun. I'm also considering getting a fast scsi drive for this machine so it'd run super duper fast, maybe I should use that instead? But then again, I'd need something faster...
 
Go to FS/FT forums.
Buy a P3+mobo+ram combo for 80 bucks
Install that into your system
Instant speed increase.
 
I dunno, seems fun. I'm also considering getting a fast scsi drive for this machine so it'd run super duper fast, maybe I should use that instead?
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The problem is that your pentium/P2 machine isn't just constrained by its slow pagefile performance and/or lack of RAM. Yes adding a RAM-drive or fast SCSI drive will help a bit, but there's absolutely nothing you can do that will make a pentium/P2 based system "super duper fast" other than replace the whole thing with something better. There are just too many bottlenecks relative to modern systems, and a faster pagefile does not address all or nearly all of them.

I like the $80 P3 suggestion. As noted, that will be an instant speed increase, for probably less money than any of the proposed pagefile upgrades.
 
Originally posted by: Some1ne
I dunno, seems fun. I'm also considering getting a fast scsi drive for this machine so it'd run super duper fast, maybe I should use that instead?
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The problem is that your pentium/P2 machine isn't just constrained by its slow pagefile performance and/or lack of RAM. Yes adding a RAM-drive or fast SCSI drive will help a bit, but there's absolutely nothing you can do that will make a pentium/P2 based system "super duper fast" other than replace the whole thing with something better. There are just too many bottlenecks relative to modern systems, and a faster pagefile does not address all or nearly all of them.

I like the $80 P3 suggestion. As noted, that will be an instant speed increase, for probably less money than any of the proposed pagefile upgrades.
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It's a proprietary case, I can't do that and then I'd have this motherboard lying around, what would I do with it? If I really wanted to, I'd upgrade the PII to a PIII with a slot I PIII processor... But what would you do in the case of a pentium non socket 7 pro? Nothing really except what I mentioned.. Pentiums are plenty fast for windows 2000, just that they have so little memory that it becomes a problem.
 
Sooner or later you will eventually give up that P2 of yours. So instead of thinking of ways to inject Nitrous Oxide or place it on crack to speed it up. Just save for your next system. As what will you do with it when you have your new system? You either buy a display cage for it or wrap it up in plastic wrap and keep it in the Attic. Or do what everybody else do, dump it!
 
Originally posted by: Jiggz
Sooner or later you will eventually give up that P2 of yours. So instead of thinking of ways to inject Nitrous Oxide or place it on crack to speed it up. Just save for your next system. As what will you do with it when you have your new system? You either buy a display cage for it or wrap it up in plastic wrap and keep it in the Attic. Or do what everybody else do, dump it!
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I hope you know that this PII system/Pentium system isn't my main rig...right? Check out my sig.
 
I don't think that many CF cards in RAID would be stable.

IMO you should try to find a way to use DDR memory to do this; it doesn't need to retain its information once the system is shut off. Should be much cheaper and much faster. Hey, what's stopping you from running 4GB of system RAM and disabling the paging file altogether?
 
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