[openbeos] Re: compact flash (booting from CF/IDE)
- From: Cian Duffy <myob87@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:58:15 +0100
A British firm called HyperOS Systems also sell a 3.5'' IDE "HDD" that
is just DDR-RAM. Its only UDMA-33 but it has virtually no seek times,
so for all but sustained copying its faster.
Its around STG100 a Gigabyte though...
Cian
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:29:00 GMT, Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "OJ Dorson" <ojdorson@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> >
> >
> > > Yeah, but not when you boot. :) Sure, if you had some kind of
> > > static
> > > RAM that kept its contents through reboot, but seeing that's not
> > > available... :)
> >
> > It's called RocketDrive from Cenatek.
> > http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
> >
> Pretty cool! Good they have external DC backup, so you could copy over
> your boot disk to it, reboot the computer and continue using the
> computer, but booting off the RAM disk instead.
>
> How much are they? A leg and an arm?
>
> --
> Mikael Jansson
> http://mikael.jansson.be
>
>
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