[SOLVED] New Flash Drive Module for My Paging File

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.

Let us know what you think of the Flash Module. I'm curious to know about the performance you gain.

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.

Is there any information on its read/write performance?

Sustained Read : 40MB/sec
Sustained Write : 20MB/sec

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.

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.

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/

Once I get the module I'll go ahead and run some tests on it. I'll probably use ATTO Benchmark too.