My employeer has hundreds of PC's running on compact flash memory cards with no hard drives and no fans. A machine with no moving parts has many advantages in an enviroment that may be less then office clean and running 24/7. There machines use a compact flash adapter that plugs into the IDE bus and the flash card plugs into it. All machines are running Windows XP Professional. The power supplies and motherboards are all fanless. The life cycle ratings of the compact flash cards are much longer than the hard drives.
> > From: Gerald Capodieci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/07 Mon AM 09:58:32 EST > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] Disk-less Flex Radio > > With Sandisk technology providing 1 GB plus storage for less than $100, has > anyone considered loading the essentials of an OS and the 13 MB of PowerSDR > onto memory chips and loose the slow and delicate disk drive. One would still > need a PC to do the initial program loads to the non-volatile memory but, > once done, size, power and durability benefits should abound. Add a miniature > keyboard with track ball and a flat screen and it could be as small and > portable as a laptop. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070507/85fba11c/attachment.html > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
