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krick:

If you want a mame cabinet to boot really fast, I think this will do the trick...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/03/gigabyte_i-ram_ramdisk/

... only problem is that it can't be off for more than 10 hours.  :(


Seems odd that they don't have some sort of auxilliary power connector.
Most modern power supplies have a 5V standby line that is always powered.
That would do the trick, I think.

EDIT:  found another review...

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/



SirPoonga:

Too bad it is RAM!  Short term memory not good for booting a cabinet :)

USB flashdisk probably a better route to follow.

krick:

It's battery backed so you don't loose anything unless you leave it off for over 10 hours.

The problem with flash is that it doesn't take well to repeated writings.  Normal digital camera use is fine but a swap file would trash a flash card in short order.

RandyT:


To overcome this problem, there should be a redundant hard disk in the system.  That way, if power fails it can automatically refresh the RAM. 

Only slow the first time after failure  Kind of like a giant disk cache :)

RandyT

SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: krick on October 03, 2005, 05:13:05 pm ---It's battery backed so you don't loose anything unless you leave it off for over 10 hours.

The problem with flash is that it doesn't take well to repeated writings.  Normal digital camera use is fine but a swap file would trash a flash card in short order.

--- End quote ---

then I guess my sandisk cruzer is the exception.  I thrash it pretty hard, even run some simple apps and games off it.

But, there isn't many writings going on anyway.

But then again, one doesn;t need either of these, ramdisks have been around for some time.  Put 2gig of memore in your computer and partition off 500 megs for mame :)

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