Can you build a PC arround a 512,1 gig memory stick >?>?

John Wayne

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Feb 14, 2003, 6:04:13 PM2/14/03

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You know as the hard drive ??

If so how.

I'am thinking about, speed and power use, like for a laptop ?

Not that 512 meg would be usefull (;

But if they get cheaper you can have a whol ebank of them and higher
in capacity.

Sometimes i thnk of Weird things.

Thanks

Dave C.

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Feb 14, 2003, 6:37:35 PM2/14/03

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"John Wayne" <John_Wayne> wrote in message

Actually, that's an OLD idea from the days of DOS (ref: ramdrive). You
might be able to do it with windows 95 or linux. I don't think it would
work with any current Microsoft OS though. At best, you'd need about $3000
worth of RAM and a motherboard that supports up to 10GB of RAM. AFAIK, that
motherboard doesn't exist. Even if it did, good luck finding win95 drivers
for the chipset of that beast. You'd have to load the ramdrive from DOS,
then install an image of windows (from CD-Rom?) to the ramdrive and THEN
start windows. (Whew!)

Then you'd have the problem of where to save your data files. (zip? CDRW?)

Overall, a lot of hurdles to cross. Probably easier to spend about $10K on
a state of the art desktop or laptop every other year or so. -Dave

KARTOFFELKANONE

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Feb 14, 2003, 7:43:54 PM2/14/03

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John Wayne <John_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Umm... u need 2 load the OS and stuff 1st and then u can play. U can get a
virtual drive program. U still need a HD 2 boot, barring the arrival of
cheap, high capacity CMOS RAM(like in ur bios, the stuff that remembers ur
settings.

bye.

PWY

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Feb 14, 2003, 7:54:06 PM2/14/03

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I beleive John Wayne asked about using memory sticks as in memory cards for
cameras. Interesting question. If BIOS was written to see memory card reader
as boot drive, could this work ?

Ralph Wade Phillips

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Feb 14, 2003, 10:26:11 PM2/14/03

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Howdy!

"John Wayne" <John_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Google sometimes on "RAM Drive" and see what pops up.

RwP

Logan Patrick Bales

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Feb 15, 2003, 1:10:00 AM2/15/03

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I think he might be looking for what is known as a solid state hard drive.
yes they exist and are very very expensive (well, used to be anyway) and are
used allot in embedded systems in industries where a regular hard drive
would not fair well (i.e g-shock, mechanical failure due to vibration,
corrosion of moving parts....) also, since there are no moving parts and no
motors, they have low power consumption.

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Waterfalls

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Feb 15, 2003, 9:58:54 AM2/15/03

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John Wayne wrote:

There are memory-stick 'hard drives'. Ram that doesn't lose data when
the electricity is cut is very expensive though.

Logan Patrick Bales

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Feb 15, 2003, 12:39:52 PM2/15/03

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check these out...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11157&item=3401623041

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Josh Kuo

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Feb 15, 2003, 1:31:58 PM2/15/03

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not sure what you want to use it for. but in Linux there is "ramdisk",
and i know there are linux products out there that will boot from CD and
keep the system running on RAM alone (and occasionally read from CD).

the ones that come to mind are the SuSE Linux Live Eval disk (which you
can download for free) and the New Internet Computer (thinknic.com)

i don't know if that's what you are looking for. but they work very well
in some cases, probably not in personal computing though.

Calvin Crumrine

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Feb 18, 2003, 2:03:32 PM2/18/03

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First, I've run Win2K successfully on machines w/4GB HD so I doubt if
you'd need that 10GB mobo. Not that I know of any 4GB mobo's either, but
at least they're closer to reality. (I do know of a couple of 2GB
mobo's.) Depending on the apps & data you want you might need more than
4GB, but not necessarily.

Also, I think you have a typo on the cost of that desktop/laptop. Isn't
$10K a little high these days? Even for state of the art?

Quantum Leap

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Feb 20, 2003, 5:12:07 PM2/20/03

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Greetings...

I just heard on the news the other day that someone was coming out with a 5 Gig credit
card sized HD. Single platter, moving parts, not solid state... They specifically
mentioned that it was for Notebooks, but I would think an adapter could be made to bank
them in an external box for a PC. I thought the $35 price tag was a bit high though...

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Phisherman

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Feb 20, 2003, 6:28:38 PM2/20/03

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A month or so ago I read about a (prototype) harddrive about the size
of a penny. Things are getting small, but I really prefer a large
keyboard.