Technolicious

That's what happen when you drop your science

For a very long time now i run my VPCs on an external HDD this is to avoid having to many I/O on physical OS's HDD. was happy things going well. i currently have a 240 GB HDD where i run my VPCs out of.

recently i was flirting with the idea that a flash disk is definitely faster than an HDD (no mechnical part as an obvious first reason) - so i got one 32 GB which is enough to run one V machine with undo disks format it to NTFS (as you will need do this to have 4GB+ files on it) and tried it out.

the experience is as the following it took me 4 hours to install windows another 4 to install VSTS 08 and i am not going to try SP1! - having a moment of silent (and stupidty) i realized that the thumb drive is actually slower than an external HDD - simply to make it very cheap as they are they had to go with a lower end chips ending up with "saving state" takes around 10 mins to complete.

a simple IO view on the virtual machines showed that i am able to write more than 160 KB per sec on the flash drive :( - so now i copying my VPC on my HDD running it from there as i used to. will be giving my new thumb drive out to the wify as its good for saving files not for high performance operations. and will be looking for one of those ultra fast ultra expensive thumb drives. (maybe i even get a solid state HDD for my notbook!)

for what it matters i am building a new VPC for BTS 09 RTM with all the related stuff. sadly i am going to slow at it!