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Ordered this for my computer, it plugs in to the IDE drive port on the motherboard.

I'm going to use it for my Paging File instead of setting up a separate partition on a second hard drive.




 
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Let us know what you think of the Flash Module. I'm curious to know about the performance you gain.
 
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Never heard of that sort of set-up before. What will the system see it as? another drive?
 
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Never heard of that sort of set-up before. What will the system see it as? another drive?
Yeah, Its basically a smaller version of SSD that plugs directly into the motherboard.
 
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      06-02-2010
Is there any information on its read/write performance?
 
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Sustained Read : 40MB/sec
Sustained Write : 20MB/sec
 
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      06-02-2010
Sounds like a neat idea in theory, but those numbers seem a little on the low side. I like how it plugs into IDE as you say. Neat.

I have my paging file on a separate drive, an HDD though. It's the only way to go about things if a machine has more than one drive imho (meaning off the boot drive with Windows, like you're doing.) I have 2 GB DDR Ram and also Readyboost 1GB stick.


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I believe it's fast enough for the Paging File, plus Windows likes it better when the Paging File is off the C drive and on another hard drive, just as you have done.

I've been putting the Paging File on a second hard drive since about 2002 when I read an article about it.

Remember those are the sustained read/write numbers, I'm still searching for the burst speeds, but it's not on Transcend's website.
 
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Ah, yeah. Then you might try running HDTune benchmark on it. Cool program. Post a screenshot as I'm sure we're interested. Cool.

http://www.hdtune.com/
 
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Once I get the module I'll go ahead and run some tests on it. I'll probably use ATTO Benchmark too.
 
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