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A) The phrase is now 'climate change'
B) SSDs typically use a lot less power than hard drives. This card even with 4 drives inside likely uses less than one normal hard disk,]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
Yeah, because there's totally an 8x PCIe slot in a MacBook Pro or iPhone :D]]>Mar 5th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
You sir hit the nail on the head. +1]]>Mar 6th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
No, but that would be a pretty reason to invest in a Mac Pro if they didn't already have one.]]>Mar 6th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard

http://wiki.museo8bits.es/wiki/images/thumb/6/6b/Hardcard.jpg/300px-Hardcard.jpg
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Probably would boot before you even knew what Vista was.

Possibly even before you were born.]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
My guess is it would make less difference than you think. The BIOS would still take 20 seconds before you got the initial boot up when this would engage. It would speed the later part up some, but all of the DHCP, driver initialization, etc etc stuff would still take however long it takes.

I'd love for somebody to find out though.

Would be nice if one of those hard core sites like ExtremeTech or Tom's Hardware or whatever would actually do testing like that, e.g. a completely fake "hard disk" made from RAM and a battery that would be faster than any hard disk ever will be--then test things like boot time, application launch, etc and see what kind of difference the hard disk performance can make.]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/insane-8-second-windows-xp-bootup-ram-disk/1807776156]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/I have 4 OCZ Core V2 SSD 30GB drives in quad RAID 0. Average read speed I have on the Core i7 system o/c-ed to 4GHz are 489 MB/s. Vista or Win 7 beta boots in 18 seconds (not counting BIOS posting etc).
Z Drive is only 22% faster, plus there is some time during boot attributed to pure CPU work (system working on starting services etc). At best, the Z Drive will boot in 14 seconds.]]>Mar 8th 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
Count me in when these come out. And hopefully they make a 0.5TB version for half as much.]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
Read that again after 5 years.

Actually, read that again now, you said 1GB.]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
In two years when SATA is dead and data is running through the PCI-E lanes, I'll be a happy camper. Imagine having 4 of these cards in RAID-5 and having 3GB of secure data with 1.5GB/sec write speeds. I'd pay an arm and leg for that. ]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/Mar 5th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/


Or they'll release Crysis 2....]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:30PM