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Rob Withey · 08-03-2007, 11:17 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by jonessc

Typical modern laptop is 5400rpm, desktop 7200rpm, not sure what a CF would give you. Only advantage is they use less power, and silent from what ive read anyway

And smaller, and more shock resistant. And lower seek times, so faster where you have bad access patterns across the disk (but slower in raw streaming throughput). And they eventually die if you write too much to them.

If you want a fast boot, look at hibernate or suspend, also consider HORM. Strip down your system as much as possible, turn off stuff you don't use (network is a good one to go).

I unzip windows from a flash disc into a ramdisk and boot from there. That is quite fast (17 seconds cold boot including POST, Win98SE).

08-03-2007, 11:17 AM	#12
Rob Withey Raw Wave Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 2,101	Quote: Originally Posted by jonessc Typical modern laptop is 5400rpm, desktop 7200rpm, not sure what a CF would give you. Only advantage is they use less power, and silent from what ive read anyway And smaller, and more shock resistant. And lower seek times, so faster where you have bad access patterns across the disk (but slower in raw streaming throughput). And they eventually die if you write too much to them. If you want a fast boot, look at hibernate or suspend, also consider HORM. Strip down your system as much as possible, turn off stuff you don't use (network is a good one to go). I unzip windows from a flash disc into a ramdisk and boot from there. That is quite fast (17 seconds cold boot including POST, Win98SE). __________________ 6yr old first install died 20/8/2005 as result of bad bios flash. New system : 6x5x2" contains 1GHz C3 PCM9373, ISR based PSU, 8Gb flash DOM, 98Lite, DirectShow based frontend. GPS : Rikaline 6010. Display : LTM08C351 + LVDS receiver.