On 2/6/14, 7:49 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:38:58 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/6/14, 4:26 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:01:14 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

...fast drives...

http://tinyurl.com/otpzpg3

SSDs? Yeah they are fast.

They do die suddenly tho. Most of the time you get some warning a
spinner is going south, if you are paying attention.
As long as everything is backed up and they are just cache, rock on!

OTOH I don't really do much that requires blazing speed these days. I
don't "game" I don't process much video and I don't crunch big
databases.
If I did, I would use a RAM drive. That really kicks ass.



SSDs have gotten a lot more reliable, and the hard drives that have died
on my in my lifetime, sans one, never gave me warning. I agree about RAM
drives, though. Does your 8088 CPU PC handle enough RAM to run a RAM
drive.

My 80286 had 12.64 meg on it, bigger than a lot of hard drives in
those days. I usually ran a 10 meg ram drive since most of the DOS
software couldn't really exploit more than a couple meg anyway with
the expanded memory driver.
I never used more than a small fraction of that.
It was really a "hobby" special, in a wooden box with a cardboard face
and a tea strainer on top for a fan grille.

It sat on my desk at IBM for over a year.
I think I have a picture somewhere.


The 80286 cpu was the chip I used in the first PC I assembled.