Convert a usb pen to Ide or sata drive

Stephen7372 · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:38

Come on I want it

It would be good surlely my compy would boot faster with windows operating system on a 4GB flash drive.

I've seen them for £30 inc p&p I could chuck in another if it failed :eek:

kutmasta · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:42

Obvious question:

Does your mobo support boot from usb?

Stephen7372 · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:46

Erm dun know :confused:

Probably not but I could get one that did I suppose

Wouldn't the usb 2 interface be a bit slow though ?

james.miller · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:48

flash has a much slower average read....good luck but it wont be faster than a hard drive at all.

Hawk Tuah · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:49

A usb flash drive isn't as fast as a HD.

You can get a drive which uses RAM as a SATA drive. They're ultra quick. Think they are 4gb but bloomin pricey.

Stephen7372 · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:49

reallyy

Stephen7372 · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:58

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480&p=12

hmm looks like I should reinstall windows without the junk :rolleyes: