90GB Flash Memory Drive From M-Systems

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1546647,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532' target='_blank'>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1546647,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532</a><br /><br /></div>"M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. on Wednesday released a solid-state ATA hard drive with capacities up to 90 Gbytes. M-Systems' new FFD 2.5-inch Ultra ATA hard drive looks like a normal hard drive to a PC or other operating system, but uses fast flash memory designed to resist shock and vibration for military and aerospace applications."<br /><br />So you are reading that correctly, it is a 90GB flash drive 8O. If you have $40,000 to spare, you can be the baddest kid on the block. Anyways, given the price tag, looks like it will be in use, at least for the time being, only by the DoD, NSA and the armed forces.<br /><br />OT - I used to always wonder how search engines were able to produce incredibly fast results and always credited it RAM disks, but later realized that it was not only RAM disks but also the way the data was indexed. In any case, we can now build half the equation in our computers (given that $40K of course ;-)).

[Jason Dunn]

I know there are some esoteric ways you can get RAMdrives working in Windows XP, but I really wish Microsoft would come out with an integrated way of making this work. If I could see some serious speed improvements, I'd be willing to fork over some $$$ to go past 1 GB of RAM, but until that happens, there doesn't seem to be much point in doing so...

[Suhit Gupta]

Check out the following - this (http://www.winsoft.sk/ramdisk.htm) as well as this (http://users.compaqnet.be/cn181612/RAMDisk/RAMDisk.htm).

I have never used either before but it looks like something you would want.

Suhit

[Jason Dunn]

Check out the following - this (http://www.winsoft.sk/ramdisk.htm) as well as this (http://users.compaqnet.be/cn181612/RAMDisk/RAMDisk.htm).

Yeah, seen those, but they don't really qualify as "integrated" with Windows, now do they? ;-) I mean I want something that works completely integrated...

[Suhit Gupta]

Yeah, seen those, but they don't really qualify as "integrated" with Windows, now do they? ;-) I mean I want something that works completely integrated...
Ahh, I guess I mistook your integrated to mean compatible. My bad :oops: .

Suhit

[Gary Sheynkman]

Ill take 4!

This must a video editor's dream come true. I bet that some big budget movies will be now made with this!