Dave S
October 16th 06, 09:55 AM
Ebay Item number: 330016440056
8GB Solid State Drive (SSD) IDE Flash Med
Is this not the type of device you are looking for.. 8 gb solid state
drive? You can get one on Ebay for under $425 USD. The 4 gig ones are
under $200 USD it appears. The prices are falling more as time goes by.
Windows XP needs just under 4 gig to load. Another 2 gig if you put
office on it. You can keep your docs on external flash media if you
want/need.. but most of us wont use up 2 gigs unless its music/video stuff.
Flitedeck is allegedly only 400 MB according to jepps site.
Peter wrote:
> I am a PPL/IR private pilot, running various GPS apps (notably Jepp
> Flitedeck) on a Motion LS800 table PC.
>
> The hard drive packs up at around 14,000 feet, crashing the unit.
>
> Flash alternatives (I believe it is a 1.8" HD inside) are extremely
> costly, around USD 2000 for 8GB, and I wonder how successful it would
> be to put in a 4GB SD card (for which there is a slot), put all maps
> on that, etc.
>
> The problem is that Windoze itself accesses various bits of the HD
> anyway, and does anyone know which bits, and can they be moved to the
> SD card?
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> I reckon that, as a minimum, one would need to move the windoze
> swapfile, and registry, to the SD card. Once upon a time I had to run
> a program called Filemon to monitor disk accesses, to see why an auto
> power-down SCSI HD would keep powering back up again, and I found a
> registry access every 1 second or so, plus an access (for no apparent
> reason) to every fixed HD every few minutes. This was on NT4 though.
8GB Solid State Drive (SSD) IDE Flash Med
Is this not the type of device you are looking for.. 8 gb solid state
drive? You can get one on Ebay for under $425 USD. The 4 gig ones are
under $200 USD it appears. The prices are falling more as time goes by.
Windows XP needs just under 4 gig to load. Another 2 gig if you put
office on it. You can keep your docs on external flash media if you
want/need.. but most of us wont use up 2 gigs unless its music/video stuff.
Flitedeck is allegedly only 400 MB according to jepps site.
Peter wrote:
> I am a PPL/IR private pilot, running various GPS apps (notably Jepp
> Flitedeck) on a Motion LS800 table PC.
>
> The hard drive packs up at around 14,000 feet, crashing the unit.
>
> Flash alternatives (I believe it is a 1.8" HD inside) are extremely
> costly, around USD 2000 for 8GB, and I wonder how successful it would
> be to put in a 4GB SD card (for which there is a slot), put all maps
> on that, etc.
>
> The problem is that Windoze itself accesses various bits of the HD
> anyway, and does anyone know which bits, and can they be moved to the
> SD card?
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> I reckon that, as a minimum, one would need to move the windoze
> swapfile, and registry, to the SD card. Once upon a time I had to run
> a program called Filemon to monitor disk accesses, to see why an auto
> power-down SCSI HD would keep powering back up again, and I found a
> registry access every 1 second or so, plus an access (for no apparent
> reason) to every fixed HD every few minutes. This was on NT4 though.