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atog:
I was on someones cab site the other day and saw they were using some sort of small flash memory drive hooked up to an ide cable and had their OS and MAME on it and skipped a normal hard drive altogether.  Kind of a neat idea but I don't know what that really gets you.

He said he was doing it because it was quieter but really, how noisy is a hard drive?  I think it's much more likely he is doing it because he had the stuff on hand, and it's kind of cool.

Anybody else thought of doing this?  Does it give you any benefit?  It's smaller but is it any faster than a normal hard drive?

SirPeale:
It's dead silent

It boots much faster

No moving parts

atog:
the silent and the moving parts don't mean much to me when they are buried inside the cabinet, but booting faster is always a good thing.

I would think a good chunk of your boot time is taken up by the bios itself.  My cab boots to win98 in about 30 seconds from hitting the power switch.  How much time do you think a drive like this would shave off?

Danny R:
You won't get much storage space with solid state yet.  I think the largest size you can get is 8 gigs, and that runs in the thousands of dollars.

atog:
I could definitely get by on 512 meg for my cab, since I am only running mame .55.  I don't think the few seconds speed difference would be worth the $$$ though.

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