windows booting from gigabyte solid state drive

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I don't get it, is Gigabyte gay now? I didn't think aidanjm posted about anything/anyone unless they were gay......

yup...there was a memo that went around...get gay or get canned :laugh:

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: Phlargo
Quoting: "Batman: "Holyshizz! Where are the Windows bars?!?!" "

Before you get too excited you have to also consider that video is probably just that - a very stripped down version of windows. We don't know anything about device drivers or anything else about the install - when I do a fresh install and streamline it down, my I only get through 1/3rd of a bar (the scrolling bar on startup) and it's in windows.. not much longer than in the video. I'm running on a 7200 RPM hard drive.

Yep, I'd have to see device manager and service being loaded to get a better feel for this. That said, it's pretty impressive but I don't boot windows that often that it'd be worth the $150+$80 for the convenience of saving 30s once every few weeks.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Get 10 in Raid 5.

Well at one point they wouldn't work in RAID. If they've solved that problem two in RAID0 would be sufficient.

Viper GTS

That's only 8 gigs though. You need far more than that.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

That's only 8 gigs though. You need far more than that.

I could live with 8 as an OS drive.

Then I'd find a nice PCI-E U320 RAID card with an external connection, an external SCSI enclosure with 4+ drives, & stuff my storage array in a closet somewhere.

Viper GTS

 

[her209]

Someone needs to make a board that will use of all this SDRAM that's just lying around.

 

[ch33zw1z]

very nice, making way for the future

 

[Chadder007]

Isn't that drive SATA 1.0 based and not 2.0 yet.....and it only holds like 4 gigs?

 

[keeleysam]

I must have one.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
I must have one.

QFT!

 

[archcommus]

I don't get why everyone is so excited. Personally my computer's on 24/7 and I reboot maybe three times a week at most. I'm okay with it taking 30 seconds.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: jagec
too bad they're so pricey...I'd love to have one

1GB for $50 is pricey?

 

[GrammatonJP]

Raid works but see problem here...
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/GrammatonJP/iram02.jpg

I can't get a third one in.. my sata ports are blocking..

raid 0 avg speed - did 3 test on 1gb + 1gb, that was when I first got it, now I'm 8gb raid0
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/GrammatonJP/iram-r01.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/GrammatonJP/iram-r02.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/GrammatonJP/iram-r03.jpg

my usb speeds
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/GrammatonJP/USB-Lexar.jpg 1GB
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/GrammatonJP/USB-Swiss.jpg 1GB

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

this will be awesome for htpc!

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I don't get why everyone is so excited. Personally my computer's on 24/7 and I reboot maybe three times a week at most. I'm okay with it taking 30 seconds.

It would most likely go into computers that will be turned on/off quite frequently.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: archcommus
I don't get why everyone is so excited. Personally my computer's on 24/7 and I reboot maybe three times a week at most. I'm okay with it taking 30 seconds.

It would most likely go into computers that will be turned on/off quite frequently.

Definitely cool for HTPC like was mentioned.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

wow, I turn off/on my computer frequently. that'd be very cool to have.

 

[erikistired]

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

which will certainly run battlefield 2. thanks for the help!

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: fisher

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

which will certainly run battlefield 2. thanks for the help!

Indeed. I smell The Linuxator.

 

[imported_Phil]

Waiiiit a minute. OP = aidanjm, no heterosexual bashing found, DOES NOT COMPUTE *head asplodes*

 

[jEnus]

We've been playing w/ gigabyte's I-Ram for the last month in my work's lab. Very impressive.

 

[thirdlegstump]

I've loaded MacOS on a ramdisk before and it was just as fast.

 

[0roo0roo]

yup u can do it with linux or windows ce. safe enviroment for when using wifi somewhere else.

 

[DurocShark]

I just don't know why RAMDrives are so expensive still.

I had a RAMDrive for my C=64 for chrissake.

 

[drinkmorejava]

Ohhhhhhhhhh, is this that gigabyte (thought you meant like 1000mb) thing that they only made a thousand of and sits in your PCI slot for power, has 4 ddr slots and connects via sata and emulates as a HD. 8 gigs max I believe. Very cool, but I think anand had a review of it about 6 months ago. Too bad it always needs a powersource. Then again, that's where nand comes in, not as fast yet though.

 

[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.