8GB Solid State IDE drive?

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8GB Solid State IDE drive?

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820208064

Anyone seen or used these? I wonder what the speeds are like?
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suhweet!!!!!!!! Well i remember reading reviews on the ram drives, and the speeds werent that great, but again its pci. This aught to be interesting!!!
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even if it was ungodly fast, I can't get past the price :shock:
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ya, that price is insane...not worth it yet.
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Dumbness. Too expensive. And come on, that thing would push IDE past its limits. SSDs are to take advantage of the bandwidth offered by SATAII....
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Post by infinitevalence »

I tested something like this a few years ago... now im sure changes have been made but the Flash drive i tested at the time toped out at about 10mb a sec. :( just not fast enough for a OS drive.
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Yeah I thought it was kinda odd for it to be IDE when SATA is the way to go these days, I bought the Ultimate something or another DIY computer thingy magazine that PC Gamer puts out every fall and it has 600$ worth of newegg coupons in it and one of them was for free shipping on these things, I wish I could find a review on one somewhere.
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Post by Kerii »

I'm still waiting for the 64GB PQI SATA drive from a few months back. :P

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pqi- ... for-august

It was supposed to be out last month but I've seen no sign of it.

Not much better at only 32mbps, but these weren't exactly made for performance in the normal sense.
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