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

Posted: 09-11-2006, 11:24 PM

indessen@hotmail.de

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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

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

Posted: 09-12-2006, 12:03 AM

indessen@hotmail.de writes:

> 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?

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.

Impmon

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

Posted: 09-12-2006, 06:58 PM

On 11 Sep 2006 15:24:49 -0700, indessen@hotmail.de wrote:

>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.

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

Posted: 09-12-2006, 10:15 PM

Impmon schrieb:

> On 11 Sep 2006 15:24:49 -0700, indessen@hotmail.de wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> 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.

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.

Folkert Rienstra

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

Posted: 09-13-2006, 12:01 AM

<indessen@hotmail.de> wrote in message news:1158095730.123651.177240@e63g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com

> Impmon schrieb:
>
> > On 11 Sep 2006 15:24:49 -0700, indessen@hotmail.de wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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,

Compact Flash, IDE, same thing, slitely different interface pinning.
See ATA/ATAPI specs.

> as opposed to your usual cf to ide adapter.

Which just routes the copper (signals) properly.
The logic is already on the CF card itself.

Mike Redrobe

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

Posted: 09-13-2006, 10:09 AM

Impmon wrote:

> On 11 Sep 2006 15:24:49 -0700, indessen@hotmail.de wrote:
>
>> 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.

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"

--
Mike

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