16GB IDE Flash Drive / solid state

[Justin Brown - SYNACS]

went for around $200 per megabyte. Nowadays hard drives are around
$2.50 per GB and memory around $100 per GB.

$2.50 per GB? You must be buying from Circuit City...

 

[Michael W. Ryder]

$2.50 per GB? You must be buying from Circuit City...

NewEgg's price for a Seagate 750 GB is around $380 and the 75 GB
Cheetahs are around $180. The 40 GB drive I mentioned was the largest
available to consumers at the time and is the one I knew how much they
cost.

 

[Eric]

$180 for 75 GB? $2.50 for 1 GB? I'm not familiar with Cheetah, but at those
prices you must be talking about the 10,000 RPM drives. I haven't checked
those lately but I'm sure they are significantly more. 7,500 RPM drives are
much less than $1 per 1 GB. I got a 120 GB drive last year from Circuit
City for $50 (after rebate).

Of course prices will continue to drop as people demand more, larger HDs,
which they will if Vista takes off (Vista asks for minimum 15 GB free).

 

[Justin Brown - SYNACS]

I jest about Circuit City being expensive. I think Michael is talking
about enterprise-grade drives, which are more server grade hardware
although I have used Cheetahs myself with Windows XP and they are
amazing as standalone drives.

 

[leblond23]

Hi Justin...

I have 16GB IDE Flash Drive SUPER TALENT and i'm unable to restore a
ghost image file on my laptop PANASONIC CF-29, Image file: WINDOWS XP
SP2. With original standard IDE disk 60Go no problem to restore, but
with the flash drive at reboot I always received OPERATING SYSTEM NOT
FOUND...

Anyone have some idea???

Thanks

Dany

 

[leblond23]

Hi Justin...

I have 16GB IDE Flash Drive SUPER TALENT on my laptop PANASONIC CF-29,
when i restore a ghost image WINDOWS XP SP2, when i reboot i always
received OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND. My image file is OK because when i
restore this same image on standard IDE drive 60Go it work fine...

Anyone have some idea???

Thanks for answer me

Dany Desbiens

 

[Justin Brown - SYNACS]

You didn't mention this, but it does appear that the BIOS is picking up
this drive, as you were able to restore a ghost image to it...

Anyways, the first place I would check is in your BIOS and make sure
that the new drive is listed in the Boot Order.