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At this price, I might be going SSD
Cakemeister:
Any DRAM is much faster than flash. Unfortunately, it loses its data when the power goes off. I would have lost my operating system had I had one of those during Hurricane Ike, when I had no power for a week.
That drive is about 4 times more expensive than the Kingston SSD.
ChadTower:
The practical answer here is that this architecture is not ready yet. The drives aren't quite up to it yet and the OS is not designed for it yet. I'm sure eventually the two will meet but for now it stays in the realm of overclockers and case modders.
Ummon:
There's other technologies being developed all the time. Perhaps fortunately, it's often-times lately materials scientists, who are filing their own patents and stuff, and may end up bringing such stuff to market more quickly.
Paladin:
Watch out for your OS size if you're using Vista or 7. I have a dual boot system with Vista 64 and 32 bit XP, and was doing some work in Vista and my 40 gig OS partition ran out of space. I was able to change and app that was storing files on the C drive to fix that, but still noticed most of the disk gone. I've always maintained a small OS partition and only install apps like audio/video editors, office, etc. All my actual files go to other disks, so I can keep the OS partition tidy and fairly defragged.
It turns out it's the new winsxs folder that slowly gobbles up your drive. My Vista environment only has about 4 applications and one game (the game is on a different drive), but the winsxs folder is 20gb and has over 75,000 files. I did a little research and found that it actually contains many 'hard links' to .dll files, but Vista (and 7) still count the links as using the same space as the actual file.
Since I first looked it up a couple months ago there have been more and more questions popping up on the net about it, some specifically directed at running smaller sized SSD's. Just google 'winsxs folder' to find more info.
Cakemeister:
There are some interesting articles on the winsxs folder. I had never heard of such a problem because I went straight from XP to 7.
I was thinking about installing my most favored applications on the C drive because I have 20 gig free on my SSD. I guess I'm not going to do that now.
I wish Macrosoft had never invented Dirty Loser Libraries. Now we are paying the price for their lack of vision.
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