Wouldn't this be nuts to put your windows page file on?

[RockGuitarDude]

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2431&p=5

 

[CrispyFried]

or your TEMP dir

 

[imported_Phil]

Wow, that's neat, and for $50 is a steal.

If you kept your machine on for most of the time, then this would be great for applications

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

A whole Linux distribution on that, or the swap file, might be pretty awesome. Even some large photo editing/or other files that are manipulated a lot. That is definitely something I will ponder.

HMMMM

 

[Texun]

I'd give it a shot if I could find one. I tinkered with a software ramdrv a long time ago on my temp files. It would be blindingly fast for about 5 secs and then hang, unhang, hang.

 

[JBT]

wow thats awsome!!!

 

[Sqube]

Actually, that seems like it would be really badass. Your page file would be sickeningly quick.

 

[SynthDude2001]

With RAM as cheap as it is these days, that might be a really nice little upgrade...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

It's possible to put the OS on this thing. Nearly instant boot-ups! All is not perfect, tho.

The battery is easily changable to a larger capacity pack, even if you made it yourself. This would work well with regular disk imaging on a real HDD.

SATA 1 lets you run DDR200, an SATA 2 version (300 MB/s) means DRR400? Would this be faster than either PCIe 1x or 4x? Would PCIe be recognized as a proper drive?

The 4 2GB sicks needed to install the OS come to a grand total of $3260, before shipping.

Solid state drives are just around the corner anyway.

 

[batmanuel]

If you ever touch your swapfile, you simply aren't running enough physical RAM to begin with. Just get more RAM if your computer is hitting its swapfile often, it's not like 1GB sticks are even all that expensive anymore.

That said, this sounds tempting to use as a Adobe scratch disk, though, or a DV source or output directory (provided you remember to move the files over to a hard drive after you're done editing). I'm almost tempted to buy a couple extra gigs of DDR memory while it is super cheap now (although I'm still a bit unsure if "only up to DDR200 support" means you have to find the old PC1600 DDR or if they mean 200MHz DDR a.k.a PC3200). I'm also curious to see if this card only works on Gigabyte motherboards like their dual chip SLI card, or if you can use it on most mobos. Either way, it sounds yummy.

 

[Golgatha]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1603118&enterthread=y

Just posted my own thread right after you. Pagefile and CD images running from this type of setup would be my first apps. I know BF1942 loads maps from the CD-ROM and they load a whole lot faster from my images on the hard drive, however this would be a quantum leap in performance from a CD-ROM or even my RAID0 setup really. Most motherboards come with more SATA headers than most folks use anyway, so this would be a nice cheap upgrade.

I think someone hit on this before, but you could certainly image the C drive with Ghost, Acronis, etc. if you wanted to load an OS on there. I wonder if they'll make boot drivers for this device though?