Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT: Microsoft appear to be giving away USB drives

Mahray opened this issue on Mar 02, 2006 ยท 7 posts


Mahray posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 3:57 AM

Attached Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mysterysolved/corp/default.mspx

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Claymor posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 8:13 AM

Interesting...wouldn't suprise me if it showed up as "read only"...but just for grins I filled out the info. Let you know if 6-8 weeks.


foleypro posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 10:11 AM

Same here... Wanted some Info that made me gringe,But I filled it out...


pakled posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 11:17 AM

hmm..now I wonder what security holes they have?..;) let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend..;) Wonder what it would do to unlicensed software..;) but when has MS ever gone wrong before?..;)

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AgentSmith posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 3:21 PM

Might also be a play on a little thing the upcoming Windows Vista can do...use a thumbdrive's space to be allocated as your virtual (swap) memory. MUCH faster than having anything access the swap file while its sitting on a hard drive. AgentSmith

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AgentSmith posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 3:26 PM

Gigabyte already sells a PCI card, that holds up to 4Gb of DDR ram, that in turn shows up on your computer as a seperate lettered drive. You can use this "drive" as your virtual memory OR...even to install your OS or any programs on it, as it is continuously powered by a battery when your PC is turned off. The data transfer speeds involved blow any hard drive on the planet AWAY. I'm telling you, its a piece of our computing future...flash memory hard drives. (I'll call it) AS

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shinyary2 posted Thu, 02 March 2006 at 3:36 PM

Claymor-- Yeah, probably read-only. Still, can't hurt to try, I suppose... it's not as if Microsoft loses more money by actually giving us a useful product for once in this instance, since they don't actually TELL us it's read-only. (fingers crossed)