I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
http://www.meritline.com/super-talen...rive-16gb.html

Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
Access Time: less than 0.1 ms
Seek Time: less than 0.1 ms

Anybody in the forum done this yet?

here's the spec sheet:
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/merit...drive-spec.pdf

One thing I noticed is this:
Write/Erase Cycles: >1,000,000 cycles

How do you storage gurus read that? Is this a non-viable platform for a
Windows XP, due to a limitation in I/O cycles?

Justin Brown - SYNACS wrote:
> I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
> http://www.meritline.com/super-talen...rive-16gb.html
>
> Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
> Access Time: less than 0.1 ms
> Seek Time: less than 0.1 ms
>
> Anybody in the forum done this yet?

For me, the price is too rich for my blood. Maybe in 5 or 10 years
they'll be affordable.
Right now you can get a terabyte or two in a standard disk(s) for the
price they're asking for that 16 gigabyte drive.

Justin Brown - SYNACS wrote:
> here's the spec sheet:
> http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/merit...drive-spec.pdf
>
> One thing I noticed is this:
> Write/Erase Cycles: >1,000,000 cycles
>
> How do you storage gurus read that? Is this a non-viable platform for a
> Windows XP, due to a limitation in I/O cycles?
>

With normal logging turned on, my PCs do >1M writes per day. With logging
turned off, my PCs still do >1M writes per week. I used DiskMon and
FileMon, courtesy of SysInternals.com, to capture write rates.
--
Cheers, Bob

Windows XP cannot be installed on a flash drive.
Flash drives are designed for file storage only.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Justin Brown - SYNACS" wrote:

| I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
| http://www.meritline.com/super-talen...rive-16gb.html
|
| Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
| Access Time: less than 0.1 ms
| Seek Time: less than 0.1 ms
|
| Anybody in the forum done this yet?

"Justin Brown - SYNACS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
> http://www.meritline.com/super-talen...rive-16gb.html
>
> Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
> Access Time: less than 0.1 ms
> Seek Time: less than 0.1 ms
>
> Anybody in the forum done this yet?


Justin:
You do understand, do you not, that this flash drive is designed as a
substitute for the traditional 2 1/2" HDD normally installed in a
laptop/notebook? It is *not* an external device that is simply plugged into
a CardBus or PCcard slot. In short, it's a laptop/notebook HDD with "no
moving parts".

While it does have some advantages, performance is not one of them when
compared with a "normal" 2 1/2" HDD. With a 16 GB capacity and selling in
the $500 range it's certainly not going to replace current laptop/notebook
HDDs any time soon.

We've all been waiting for economically-priced large-capacity solid-state
HDDs with no performance limitations for many years now. We're still
waiting...
Anna

Tried that with a 4GB one in a Windows XP based "scale monitoring
system", had wierd problems with data reads and writes, gave up and are
using a laptop drive instead. Odd things happened with all 3 units so it
wasn't just a one time issue.

Justin Brown - SYNACS wrote:
> I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
> http://www.meritline.com/super-talen...rive-16gb.html
>
> Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
> Access Time: less than 0.1 ms
> Seek Time: less than 0.1 ms
>
> Anybody in the forum done this yet?
>

You can install Windows on the IDE interface type flash drives.

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:

> Windows XP cannot be installed on a flash drive.
> Flash drives are designed for file storage only.
>

Right there with you. Can't help but salivate though.


(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Justin Brown - SYNACS wrote:
> > I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
> > http://www.meritline.com/super-talen...rive-16gb.html
> >
> > Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
> > Access Time: less than 0.1 ms
> > Seek Time: less than 0.1 ms
> >
> > Anybody in the forum done this yet?
>
> For me, the price is too rich for my blood. Maybe in 5 or 10 years
> they'll be affordable.
> Right now you can get a terabyte or two in a standard disk(s) for the
> price they're asking for that 16 gigabyte drive.

Thanks for your input Bob. Apparently you've considered this
possibility too.

What about: Logging off, Virtual Memory off, %TEMP% and %TMP% system
variables, as well as %HOMEDRIVE% folder(s) changed to a secondary
(rotating) hard drive. Would that bring your writes down to maybe five
or six figures per week? =]

Bob Willard wrote:
> Justin Brown - SYNACS wrote:
> > here's the spec sheet:
> > http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/merit...drive-spec.pdf
> >
> > One thing I noticed is this:
> > Write/Erase Cycles: >1,000,000 cycles
> >
> > How do you storage gurus read that? Is this a non-viable platform for a
> > Windows XP, due to a limitation in I/O cycles?
> >
>
> With normal logging turned on, my PCs do >1M writes per day. With logging
> turned off, my PCs still do >1M writes per week. I used DiskMon and
> FileMon, courtesy of SysInternals.com, to capture write rates.
> --
> Cheers, Bob