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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 3rd 2008
I've been thinking of getting an ATA133 compactflash adapter (takes a pair of compact flash cards, one as master one as slave) and a pair of 280X samsung CF cards (because they're cheap on ebay, and fast).
In theory, if I RAID them, I'm looking at a 80MB/sec drive with a <=.1ms seek time. Compared to a raptor, it's probably slightly slower on DTR, but the seek time murders the raptor...
I know they have limited read/write cycles, which is why I wouldn't boot off it - just keep programs I use a lot installed on it (Like Photoshop Elements, which seems to take *forever* to load...), and boot off a 7200rpm drive with a cut down version of XP, using nlite to make a legal "TinyXP" alike.
Thoughts? Anyone know how long a CF card lives if you make a boot drive out of it (and put the swap file on a disk, perhaps)?
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeJun 3rd 2008
Booting isn't so much the problem - it's writing to the drive... But CF cards are cheap enough, why not just treat them as normal and replace them when they die?
Depending on what you're doing - why not consider a large about of system memory (4-8GB) and running a RAM drive?
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 3rd 2008
Ah, but the point is that windows writes to the boot drive alot...
I thought about having 2 drives. 1 boot, which I backup regularly to the NAS server, and 1 that I keep everything on. When the boot drive dies, I replace it...
I have an 8 port hardware ATA RAID card too. Only ATA66 ports, and the PCI bus limits it to 133MB/sec, but still...
Only does 1, 0 or JBOD though (it's OLD).
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
Well I'm sure if you were using Linux, you could come up with something speedier and remove all writes out of the equation
Like a copy-on-write filesystem for starters -
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
Linux won't run photoshop elements, though!
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
VirtualBox?
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
That's...
...not a bad idea...
*makes a Hmmmmmmmmmmmm noise and holds his chin*
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CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
A hmmmm from me too. I have been wanting to get back into Photoshop. My laptop with Windows has been acting strange and I think it has been infected. Started doing that when my niece had all kinds of friends over working on a video project. It's odd though, I have current AVG sig files and firewall on it. I think they were sharing stuff via USB thumb drive.
I have almost relinquished any rights to that laptop so getting some of my "old faithfull" software on my Ubuntu rig is very attractive. I have stuff running under WINE but Virtualbox may be better?
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CommentAuthorClubBarf
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
Virtualbox and a cut down windows XP (tinyXP style) does sound tempting...
Although, as I think about it, I don't think I use any linux based software anymore. The only things I do with my PC these days are browse (firefox) email (thunderbird) the occasional letter (word) very occasional game of counterstrike/HL2 (or ep1, or ep2) and... Photoshop.
Kinda wondering if it's worthwhile installing linux, and not just going for tinyXP. I tend to find myself getting annoyed with Linux as a desktop very easily, and I'm not sure virtualbox would let me play games...
Besides, I'm skint after buying waay too much glass for my DSLR, so the CF RAID array is going to have to wait.
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2008
WINE will be faster, but possibly less reliable.
VirtualBox will be like having a second machine
But in seamless mode, it becomes part of Linux!VirtualBox would NOT let you play games.
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