grafton Posted February 24, 2007 Posted February 24, 2007 this seems to be a something that isn't listed in the specifications: does windows see a flash drive as a "removable drive" or as a "local disk" i am hunting for a drive that is recognized as a local disk with a medium transfer rate between 256MB-512MB size so i can off-load my windows swapfile onto it, (123Mhz P1, 128Mb RAM (dual channel lol), a 1mb vga adapter, 1.2 Gb 5400 RPM Quantum fireball ) i had to buy a $12 add in card to get usb on it and it has a regular usb port on the inside and i want to put the "swap file" drive on the inside port so there is no risk of it being unplugged. is running xp pro SP1 and has 60 mb free on the hard drive oh yeah enjoy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted February 24, 2007 Posted February 24, 2007 Most of the ones I have are recognized as a local disk...and I have some pretty cheap 1gig ones...? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamkoza Posted February 24, 2007 Posted February 24, 2007 I don't think you can get transfer rates that high with a flash drive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafton Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 well looks at the specs not looking for a$$ kicking speeds somewhere around 5-10mb/s Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny_Nero Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 All my SD flash stuff (Cameras) come up as "removable drives" (because that is what it is). Cant remember what the thumb drives say and I dont have any here ATM, I have just ordered some fast Corsair 133x ones today. But, I have also yet to see any NAND/flash type media that can come close to one Raptor in speed, let-alone some that are striped. I will bench them when they get here. The cheap big one in my camera, I only did the other day and it did not make 1 MB/sec. I did not think it was a good idea to put swap files or anything that reads and writes a lot on flash media because it has a finite life, unless things have changed since I read somewhere about someone else wanting to do just what you want to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohydra Posted February 26, 2007 Posted February 26, 2007 Well, if you wanna try what I've been playing with, OCZ makes a flash to SATA connector. The transfers are low, but the seek and w/r times are .1 ms. So what I've done is create a super OS drive by raid 0ing 4 of them together. Transfers are the same as normal hdd's, but the seek and w/r times are .025 ms! It is expensive though, $40 for a connector and $50 for each flash card... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted February 26, 2007 Posted February 26, 2007 flash drives are fine for stuff like that....Vista will use them for "Speedboost" which sorta is the same thing... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny_Nero Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I did some HD Tune tests with my Corsair 60x and 133x NAND and USB stuff and the best I could get from them (the 133x USB) was ~19 MB/sec, seek 1.3ms and burst 9.1 MB/sec. I have 10 year old 5400 rpm Hdd's that can run close to that. Unless the companies have been holding stuff back from the open market (something I very much doubt) I just dont see how this is going to work. I have read about the hybrid drive thing but that is just vapour ware right now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohydra Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 Not flash drives, flash cards, hehe. It's just an experiment right now, but if I get any good data, I'll post it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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