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<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 244138" data-attributes="member: 14004">It's possible. hobbiest building carputers have been using flash storage for their systems for years - but there a few potential problems you need to be aware of before you start:1) If you use a USB drive, make sure your mobo can boot from USB. Some mobo's cannot - so if yours cant, you'll have to look at using something like a Compact Flash card and an IDE converter.2) Flash memory only has a finite number of writes it can perform, then the drive is no good anymore. At the very most you're looking at 100,000 write cycles in the life of a flash stick - which will only be a few years of use when you consider how much windows reads/writes data just by booting up. A solution to this is to make the drive a HORM (hibernate once, resume many) - meaning that you create the drive the way you want on a regular HDD, then transfer the OS to the flash drive and lock the OS so that when it turns on, it only resumes from a pre-hibernates state. this way it never writes files to the flash memory and extends the life of the drive.But you have to be careful because programs like MP and others need to write log and configuration data to the drive, so you're going to have write cycles spent anyways which will drain the life of the flash.Of course, the benefits are good like you mentioned: no noise, no heat, incredibly fast boot up times for everyting... but IMHO the cons just outweight the pros right now until the technology matures a bit more. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 244138, member: 14004"] It's possible. hobbiest building carputers have been using flash storage for their systems for years - but there a few potential problems you need to be aware of before you start: 1) If you use a USB drive, make sure your mobo can boot from USB. Some mobo's cannot - so if yours cant, you'll have to look at using something like a Compact Flash card and an IDE converter. 2) Flash memory only has a finite number of writes it can perform, then the drive is no good anymore. At the very most you're looking at 100,000 write cycles in the life of a flash stick - which will only be a few years of use when you consider how much windows reads/writes data just by booting up. A solution to this is to make the drive a HORM (hibernate once, resume many) - meaning that you create the drive the way you want on a regular HDD, then transfer the OS to the flash drive and lock the OS so that when it turns on, it only resumes from a pre-hibernates state. this way it never writes files to the flash memory and extends the life of the drive. But you have to be careful because programs like MP and others need to write log and configuration data to the drive, so you're going to have write cycles spent anyways which will drain the life of the flash. Of course, the benefits are good like you mentioned: no noise, no heat, incredibly fast boot up times for everyting... but IMHO the cons just outweight the pros right now until the technology matures a bit more. :( [/QUOTE]

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