Hard disk chip

Stephen7372 · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:39

Can you get a chip from a usb pen sort of thing and use it to install windows on , would it be really fast or not :confused:

Raikiri · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:43

Erm...if your very good at soldering and designed a PCB with an S-ata interface then yes... you can buy solid state hard drives but they are incredibly expensive.
Gigabytes Iram is probably the closest you will get, and it is marketed as "boot windows XP in seconds"... Mine only takes 5 second to load anyway with an s-ata2 spinpoint so right now there is little advantage

Stephen7372 · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:49

My computer takes about 4 minutes to boot :eek:

I have got a lot of junk on it

nikebee · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:49

Raikiri said:
Erm...if your very good at soldering and designed a PCB with an S-ata interface then yes... you can buy solid state hard drives but they are incredibly expensive.
Gigabytes Iram is probably the closest you will get, and it is marketed as "boot windows XP in seconds"... Mine only takes 5 second to load anyway with an s-ata2 spinpoint so right now there is little advantage

agreed, i don't think you'll be able to get much faster with current OS's (XP in mind) and current hardware.

My Raptor on a fresh install goes from post to windows in seconds.

Raikiri · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:50

Jeez, mine is 5 seconds between the memory check and the login screen although like I said I have quite a fast S-ata 2 drive.

nikebee · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:00

Stephen7372 said:
My computer takes about 4 minutes to boot I have got a lot of junk on it

defragged lately?
4 minutes though... holy crap lol