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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

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    They may be from the stone age, but I wish my modern laptop would start up in the same sort of time that it took to get a prompt on one of those old computers (usually a few seconds, whereas my laptop can faff around for a few minutes).
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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    They may be from the stone age, but I wish my modern laptop would start up in the same sort of time that it took to get a prompt on one of those old computers (usually a few seconds, whereas my laptop can faff around for a few minutes).
    Not if you have a solid state device of course, or do what i do and use short stroking on your boot drive - basically i have a 1.5tb drive restricted to around 300gb at the outer edge - the fastest part of the drive. This makes it much faster even than a raptor drive. Heres some info. Neither of these methods are as fast as ram though, I remember using RAD drives (virtual drives entirely in memory) on the Amiga years ago, near instant boot* and the drives exist even after a soft reset.

    (* it seemed so at the time, but this is around 17 years ago)

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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    do what i do and use short stroking on your boot drive
    the mind boggles, should this thread be taken outside

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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by philsmove View Post
    the mind boggles, should this thread be taken outside
    indeed, which is why i provided a link. Seriously, you can click on it at work

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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    I remember using RAD drives (virtual drives entirely in memory) on the Amiga years ago, near instant boot* and the drives exist even after a soft reset.
    For info, ASRock provide an instant boot mode in their BIOS that gets you to a desktop in about 4 seconds from power on.

    As I understand it, what happens is that when you shutdown, the machine actually reboots (to get to the state you'd be after a clean boot), and then dumps that state to the HD before shutting down. Then when you actually boot the machine, instead of doing the normal setup, it just pulls the previously saved state.

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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by philsmove View Post
    IIRC correctly IBM sold those for many years (at that sort of price or higher).

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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    basically i have a 1.5tb drive restricted to around 300gb at the outer edge - the fastest part of the drive. This makes it much faster even than a raptor drive. Heres some info.
    How about an operating system that automatically short strokes.

    I'm wondering if a USB flash drive with Windows 7 ReadyBoost might substitute.

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    Re: 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00

    Quote Originally Posted by frodo View Post
    How about an operating system that automatically short strokes.
    not possible - the bios will report it as a smaller drive before the OS has use of it.

    I'm wondering if a USB flash drive with Windows 7 ReadyBoost might substitute.
    Not sure it is that fast but all flash drives will vary in speed anyway. Heres a good page that runs some comparisons with some of the tech mentioned - and a new seagate hybrid drive. Also here are short stroking instructions

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