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Interesting....
2007-Nov-18, Sunday 07:21 amAn article about modding up a flash drive in the latest CPU (Computer Power User magazine) to have only the 4 pin USB interface soldered directly to the flash drive side of the system and then plugging that directly into the MoBo USB connector pin sets internally to allow Vista to have a near-permanent flash system for the virtual drive got me thinking....
If it works in Vista, wouldn't it work in XP? I checked the Virtual Drive management tool in XP-SP2, and you can indeed designate a USB drive as virtual-enabled. So, other than boot and load order for drivers and caching requirements, as of yet, I can't really see any reason XP wouldn't utilize the same accelerated processing and management of its VD needs through a USB drive at least as well. Obviously, the drive would need to be on one of the USB2.0 sockets to be meaningful, but now I'm all intrigued. And with 2GB drives coming down like a rock in price, I might have to find a bargain drive or two off Newegg and investigate whether that would really speed things up or not. I'm betting it out, by a good clip.
If it works in Vista, wouldn't it work in XP? I checked the Virtual Drive management tool in XP-SP2, and you can indeed designate a USB drive as virtual-enabled. So, other than boot and load order for drivers and caching requirements, as of yet, I can't really see any reason XP wouldn't utilize the same accelerated processing and management of its VD needs through a USB drive at least as well. Obviously, the drive would need to be on one of the USB2.0 sockets to be meaningful, but now I'm all intrigued. And with 2GB drives coming down like a rock in price, I might have to find a bargain drive or two off Newegg and investigate whether that would really speed things up or not. I'm betting it out, by a good clip.
