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Hitachi microdrive filter driver 64 bit11/14/2022 ![]() ![]() I’m wondering now about trying to boot from it. So I will see what she says when she gets back if this was speedier than it has been. I just set this up with both RB and Page File, and sent my wife off on a trip with the laptop. ![]() I found that Windows offered BOTH to let me use this SSD for ReadyBoost, AND it also appears as a valid drive to put a Page File on Advanced File Settings/Virtual Memory. But I didn’t think Toshiba would let me boot from the Express Card slot. I wanted to see if there is a way to use it to take load off the HDD in this older laptop (Core 2 Duo CPU) by using this for a quick ReadyBoost and/or put a Page File on it. It was expensive for a 64 GB SSD that’s not as fast as normal (but still quite fast) but the HDD is internal and not easily removable. You might like to know about this: I bought a Wintec mini-SSD for a laptop Express Card slot. (Is it an insatiable thirst for knowledge? A means of doing regular ‘check-ups’ on my storage device? Probably the latter, but maaayyyybe the former as well. data, as I prefer Flash-based storage devices with some sort of S.M.A.R.T. Hopefully those will also provide S.M.A.R.T. I bought a NOS Disk 16GB CF card from Amazon as well as a SanDisk Extreme 32GB, and plan to use the latter to hold my photos, with the former mainly being a simple curiosity of the construction of a card from a lesser-known manufacturer. Either way, it’s lost my trust with regards to holding my photos. Given the simplicity of the card, I don’t really have much else to add about this card. There are two installed on this card with another two footprints on the PCB being unpopulated, suggesting that the 16GB version of this card has all four footprints populated. ![]() The memory is an Intel 29F32G08AAMD2 device, which is an asynchronous MLC NAND Flash memory chip. It’s less capable of dealing with memory wearout, but doesn’t require the computing overhead of static wear leveling (which proper SSD controllers use to keep performance up). Given the controller’s limited computing capabilities, I’m thinking it uses a less-complex but less-reliable form of wear leveling, known as dynamic wear leveling (see Micron’s application note for more information). attributes, nor does it indicate what type of Flash wear-leveling is provided. The datasheet for the PS3006 doesn’t provide information on the S.M.A.R.T. It contains an 8051 microcontroller core with a few components to assist with interfacing with the Flash memory, such as a hardware ECC (error correction code) engine and a small amount of SRAM for a buffer. ![]() The card’s controller is a Phison PS3006, which sports a PCMCIA (and therefore CompactFlash) interface with True IDE (or plain PATA) support. Top plate removed controller and memory visibleīottom plate removed memory and unpopulated footprints visible ![]()
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