windows booting from gigabyte solid state drive

[ProviaFan]

Nice, but too small to be practical. SSDs of at least 16GB (preferrably 32GB) will need to come about and be somewhat affordable before I consider converting. If that doesn't happen, then I can see adding an i-RAM once 4GB of DDR can be had for very little cost, for use with Vista's super-prefetch that will cache on a solid state drive. However, SSDs would still be much better.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Imaginer
Anyone hear word on hybrid hard drives? Where they have flash memory acting like a CPU's L2 or L3 cache? Supposedly, all boot information and windows is stored there for a very quick boot time or to help speed it up. Not to mention speed general access to programs and such.

flash life is already enormously short, i can't imagine that it'd be all that great for hdd constant reading and writing.

regular drams are so cheap, why can't they just use more of that?

 

[whistleclient]

according to Giga-Byte's website, the I-Ram only supports up to 4 gigs...

 

[BW86]

holy moly, that was fast :Q

 

[ActuaryTm]

Have been looking at the i-Ram for quite a while now.

Anand's view (slightly earlier revision).

Boot time is for the most part an irrelevant measure of the performance increase this type of technology can offer, though it would be vital in perhaps a media machine as it would afford a more "instant on" feature that most consumers expect from media electronics.

 

[insename2]

Originally posted by: kalster

Originally posted by: TitanDiddly

Originally posted by: kalster
windows sucks, you can book linux from a 32 mb thumb drive/cf card, i use it on a computer with no moving parts, as a router,

Troll elsewhere.

why is it trolling, i was just mentioning using an OS off a flash drive is nothing new, people have been using linux on embedded devices/computers off thumb drives/flash cards since quite some time

this is not a flash drive... else it be a lot slower....


btw from the looks of it, it has no drivers yet... boot time will increase when he installs drivers