Anyone have experience with Transcend 2GB (or more) IDE Flash Drive (2.5 / 44pin)

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Hello,

does anyone have any experience, good or bad (hopefully good!), with
the Transcend 2GB (or more) IDE Flash Drive (2.5 / 44pin). I am
thinking of buying a 2Gb version for my laptop and install Windows XP
on it with Word etc. and run it as a "surf, research and type/write"
machine with zero noise emission while writing my thesis.

I've managed to strip down an IBM OEM Windows XP to about 1,2 Gb. If I
install Word etc., it might go up to 1,5 Gb. I dont need a lot of file
space and I'll disable the swap file (virtual memory). 2 Gb should then
be more than enough, right? if not, I can always install an
off-the-shelf XP, with XP-lite I managed once to get it down to 600Mb.

According to Transcend these flash disks last for up to 100,000
write/erase cycles. That should last for two years of using Word,
Endnote and Internet explorer?

Anyone have any experience whether this is realiable or prone to
disaster?

Thanks,
Louis
 
According to Transcend these flash disks last for up to 100,000
write/erase cycles. That should last for two years of using Word,
Endnote and Internet explorer?

Anyone have any experience whether this is realiable or prone to
disaster?
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HP made a flash-based configuration of a Windows 3.11 machine called
the Omnibook 300 a long while ago and it worked fine.

There's an 8GB version of that Transcend IDE flash disk available from
newegg.com, of that's of any interest.
 
does anyone have any experience, good or bad (hopefully good!), with
the Transcend 2GB (or more) IDE Flash Drive (2.5 / 44pin). I am
thinking of buying a 2Gb version for my laptop and install Windows XP
on it with Word etc. and run it as a "surf, research and type/write"
machine with zero noise emission while writing my thesis.
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Sounds nice, I might consider that one for my old 200MHz laptop with
Windows 98 if the cost were reasonable, flash drive are defiantly
lighter, power efficient, and cooler than hard drive. I can get CF
card in 2GB range for about $100 and a CF to IDE adapter for under
$10.
 
Impmon said:
Sounds nice, I might consider that one for my old 200MHz laptop with
Windows 98 if the cost were reasonable, flash drive are defiantly
lighter, power efficient, and cooler than hard drive. I can get CF
card in 2GB range for about $100 and a CF to IDE adapter for under
$10.
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the transcend flash ide 2gb drive goes for around 90 euros in europe
and has a proper controller - apparently - that ensures that the
write/erase areas are spread, as opposed to your usual cf to ide
adapter.
 
the transcend flash ide 2gb drive goes for around 90 euros in europe
and has a proper controller
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- apparently - that ensures that the write/erase areas are spread,
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Compact Flash, IDE, same thing, slitely different interface pinning.
See ATA/ATAPI specs.
as opposed to your usual cf to ide adapter.
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Which just routes the copper (signals) properly.
The logic is already on the CF card itself.
 
Sounds good, and I did this a while back (on win98, with a 256Mb CF)

You do get silence and instant seek times, but flash is much slower
than HDDs at read/write data transfer. They are better than they
were, but still no match for modern HDDs.

CF is often described as "40x speed", which is a reference to
the original CDROM single speed of 150kB/sec, so
40x speed is 6MB/sec data transfer.

Compare this to an average HDD of 60MB/sec - "400x"
 
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