Has anyone tried using one of those USB flash drives as a main drive on a Mini-Itx system? Will it boot to a USB flash drive? can you run the complete OS and apps on it? A system with zero moving parts would rock.
02-10-2003 14:03:03
RE:boot to USB and use USB as main drive? (modified 0 times)
Don't know about the Mini-ITX booting from flash, but one consideration for all systems using flash is that
is has a limited number of writes. Its quite high but Windows likes to fiddle with the virtual memory. Hence
turn off all virtual memory, keep running applications down so you down page. Don't try a database app etc.
On one site, a person had trashed a CF card in a weekend on a Windows machine. There are adaptors to allow
the use of CF cards as IDE drives. I got one on my desk now.
Max
02-10-2003 17:16:17
RE:boot to USB and use USB as main drive? (modified 0 times)
Yeah, be careful - I installed XP on a 1Gb CF (free engineering sample) card & wrote it off in under a day. This was due to the fact that regardless of how much RAM you have, WIndows still writes back to the pagefile. With 512Mb of RAM you can safely run without a pagefile.
It is easy to run from CF & then when connected to a netwoek, run your apps from a server - thus saving the amount of data needed to be stored on yer CF card.
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