RE: W2K RAMlimits

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

Jim,
I am sorry but I may be a little dense.  How can one use flash memory on
flash memory cards in Firewire or USB 2.0 ( I presume) connected flash card
readers as a scratch disk in such a manner as to make it faster than hard
drives on USB 2.0 (I assume) and Firewire?  Doesn't one run into the same
bottlenecks in terms of both the connections and with respect to the
operation of the readers as one runs into now with hard drives ( even those
that are SCSI, USB 2.0, or Firewire connected)?  I guess I fail to see the
benefits of this over the current scratch disk methods which locate the
virtual memory on a hard drive - and especially when compared to
motherboard-based RAM drives in the speed department.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
[mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Jim Wingo
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:36 PM
To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
Subject: Re: W2K RAMlimits


If one could accept half a gig as a scratch disk, one could possibly use a
512M flash card in either a USB or FireWire connected card reader (total
about $250). If one needs more, a one gig or better card would up the total
to around $1500 or more. Too bad there is no obvious way - at least not to
me - to gang a bunch of flash memory using conventional readers.

Jim Wingo

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On 6/16/2002 at 10:09 AM Bertho Boman wrote:

>It is too bad that you are not using a PC since then you could help us
figuring out how to get an efficient RAM based RAM-disk.



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