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Recently I picked up another USB hub to run the keyboard and mouse and others from, a longer monitor cable, and a longer network cable for the router. I set the PC outside the listening room in the hallway, and ran the cables underneath the door.
My music PC produces zero noise - it's fanless, and boots off a 4GB Compact Flash card. EWF disables writes back to the card, so it's read only.All music is grabbed off a Gigabit network from a NAS containing about 1.2TB of usable storage (raw capacity is about 1.6TB, but I'm using RAID5).
> My music PC. . . boots off a 4GB Compact Flash card.That's cute. Is it Windows, or Linux?
I actually got Windows XP to boot off a USB drive a few months ago,
but it wasn't particularly simple to do. I used Dietmar Stolting's
modified Ntdetect.com, and his registry and driver modifications.
This works fine (although slower than booting from IDE or SATA),
except for one little glitch -- if virtual memory is enabled,
Windows still expects to find the page file on the primary
IDE disk, not the USB disk, and it will crash while booting
if the IDE disk is removed. So if you wanted to use a USB
memory stick with Windows XP, you'd have to run with virtual
memory disabled.
I'm running Windows. I have special hardware that let XP sees the flash card as a "fixed drive" rather than a "removable drive" so I don't need to use any special tricks to install Windows.And yes, virtual memory needs to be disabled. But that's a good idea for a music only PC anyway.
are you running window xp? is 4gb enough to house xp? TIA
If you know what you are doing, you can slim down XP quite a bit. My complete music system - XP Pro, music software, recording software etc. is currently at 2.5 GB.
This is a handy (freeware) utility that allows you to build a custom XP install CD that contains exactly the features you want. Many people have reported successfully installing a minimal version of XP around 800M or so total disk space. Something like Winamp takes only a few extra MB.So it should be possible to have everything in well under 2GB.
But 4GB cards are pretty cheap anyway, and there should be absolutely no issues installing even a full version of XP plus apps into 4GB.
4 GB is enough for a basic XP install plus a small swap file. Largish applications such as Office may have difficulty squeezing onto a disk that size, but XP itself with the basic applications set will run fine.
thank you. any site that shows how to set up xp using an usb flash drive? TIA
I've never tried using a flash card for XP so I'm not sure I can help with that. However, quite a while back it was said that flash drives have a limit on the number of times each section can be written, which with an OS like XP that accesses the disk frequently might prove to be a problem. Given the advancements in SS drive technology in the past few years however, it's possible that this is no longer an issue.
EWF disables all writes back to the flash card by implementing a "ram disk" on top on the flash card which is discarded every time you shut down (hence the flash card is "read only")EWF was originally written for Windows XP Embedded but can be "hacked" to run with ordinary Windows XP. Do a google.
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> > > 300 terabyte drive by 201032GB solid state drives are cool, but have limited use. As a replacement for mechanical drives, they're certainly more durable, but would consumers buy the durability at a higher price and lower capacities? I suppose they're also quieter, but the smaller 2.5" and 1.8" mechanical drives are already close to noiseless.
One thing I look forward to is the day when portable music players are based around large, replaceable solid state drives such as this. Then you could drop, say, a 64GB solid state drive into the player when one becomes available. There may not be a lot of enthusiasm for such flexibility, though, when manufacturers like Apple can just sell new solid-state players to people every two years when the technology grows to encompass higher capacities.
it will be worth the wait...for utter silence. the future IS here.
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