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11-15-2004, 01:37 AM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,784
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i have a idea to improve computers a lot. Well onto the motherboard there is 1gb or 2gb of super fast (almost as fast a DDR RAM) flash memory that the info stored on it stayes when you turn off the computer. The central OS is stored on that and it is recognised by windows as a drive. now when you boot, the bios says to look to boot of the super fast flash memory, then whatever else you want like cdrom and floppy. This means super fast (a few seconds) boot time. The os and files are still on the hard drive. do you guys think its even possible, or just a stupid idea.
Wayne
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11-15-2004, 01:43 AM
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PowerQuest / Opera Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 10,101
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It might be a good idea but they would have build it already if it would be possible or faster than current ways of reading/writing data.
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11-15-2004, 03:01 AM
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Monster Techie Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tucson, AZ, USA Posts: 1,183
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Quote: Originally posted by TheMajor
It might be a good idea but they would have build it already if it would be possible or faster than current ways of reading/writing data. | Not neccessarily...if it were a huge cost, and development usually is, they may have just not spent the time on it. I mean, technology (computers...) are always improving, otherwise people wouldn't ever be in "aww"! But anyhow, yeah, you're most likely right!
That would be pretty neat, though just getting the processor speeds up, drives and RAM as well, is improving that slowly but surely. I think that's more of what any company is looking for--not really new ideas, just improving on the old ones. It sure sounds possible...but I'm no hardware expert :-/ ...yet!
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11-15-2004, 04:23 AM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 973
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waynejkruse10,
well yeah there is always the cost factor. What you are speaking about is a ROM and not RAM. So bulding a 1 - 2GB ROM and implemeting it in mobo's is not an cost effective solution. You can just build prototypes and go with that kinda setup...
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11-15-2004, 04:56 AM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,784
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yeah, i was thinking how to speed up the computers main bottleneck, the hard drives, well sata raid with 10000 rpm drives isnt all that cost effective either.
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11-15-2004, 05:00 AM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,784
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also, how fast is ROM, is it faster than HDD transfer?
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11-15-2004, 05:08 AM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 973
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waynejkruse10, Quote: |
also, how fast is ROM, is it faster than HDD transfer?
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Yeh, its pretty fast , since it is a hardware and directly accessed by the CPU. It has speeds equivalent to RAM.
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11-15-2004, 09:44 AM
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Master Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,534
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want faster boot up, switch OS's, winblows is slow to boot
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11-15-2004, 10:43 AM
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PowerQuest / Opera Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 10,101
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ROM=Read Only Memory
(wouldn't be useful for an OS)
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11-15-2004, 03:26 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by waynejkruse10
i have a idea to improve computers a lot. Well onto the motherboard there is 1gb or 2gb of super fast (almost as fast a DDR RAM) flash memory that the info stored on it stayes when you turn off the computer. The central OS is stored on that and it is recognised by windows as a drive. now when you boot, the bios says to look to boot of the super fast flash memory, then whatever else you want like cdrom and floppy. This means super fast (a few seconds) boot time. The os and files are still on the hard drive. do you guys think its even possible, or just a stupid idea.
Wayne | I know of some one that did that with Linux a few years back. The entire OS was on Compact Flash.
Not sure what exactly he was doing with it, but for him it worked for him.
As for it being any faster, I really can not comment.
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