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    PhotoFast GM-EX54C64GSSD Express 54 SSD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ph0enix, Dec 29, 2009.

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    Decent performing. Question is, how do you make your system boot from the expresscard slot? Expresscard has just pci-e pins, with no sata controller attached. The expresscard needs to provide the sata controller which would mean a driver needs to be loaded. That would imply this product can only really be a data driver.

    Unless there are some smarts to partially boot off a HDD and then direct the rest of operations to the expresscard SSD?
     
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    Either you got a BIOS that support Expresscard Boot, or BIOS > HDD(load drivers) > Expresscard to boot an operating system.

    Read somewhere someone did attempt to relocate the location of the operating system using the HDD, but forgot where.....
     
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    Found the article to do it here. Since expresscard has USB pins, I wonder if it can boot off itself, load drivers, then switch dynamically to expresscard mode for full performance??
     
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    The 4K performance is rather Sub Par...
     
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    Post #40 kinda sums it up but for pcmcia boot driver
    http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6672&st=30

    I'm comparing the performance to 1.8 ZIF SSD, which isn't that bad considering that it's smaller in volume.
     
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    1,89MB/s in 4K writes?? - Come one, that's ehm... yes, what?
    The read speed is OK - oddly enough the Intel X25-M (which is pretty good) ends "in the same area" but the write speed is a disaster.
     
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    Well thinking of using this software http://flashfire.org/xe/ to enhance the write speed using part of the system RAM, I'm looking at the read speed.
     
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    Well... but that - provided it does what its supposed to be - has its limitations...
    And its risky in case of power loss... or an OS crash..
     
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