SSD PCMIA slot adapters

Was wondering what you all thought of this idea?

I have oft wondered how people can get around older laptops that normally cannot be upgraded?

Memory can be hard to find after 10 years or so.

Wouldn't it be great if they made SSD drives to fit in PCMIA slots that would be recognized as RAM for the laptop to use?

I was thinking it would be faster than USB 1.0 slots, & if someone has a decent 950 MHZ amd chipset prior to USB 2 release, it may be faster with PCMIA slot drives than to use USB flash drives as "ram".

What do you all think?

Should they make an adapter with an SSD drive for older laptops & computers that could be used as RAM?

If they wanted to go further, perhaps they could make these RAM drives with a processor inside to boost performance on say, 350 MHZ machines!

I know, I know, but hey! Wouldn't it be so great if you could buy a PCMIA slot SSD drive (with a processor on it) and be able to brag to your friends...

Guess what? I got this 350 MHZ laptop up to 1.5 GHZ, & it has 3.2 GB RAM! WOW!

Windows already implements this with your existing hard drive it's called virtual memory. ;)

Richard S.

Pretty good idea, imho, but contrary to most marketing strategies. "Planned obsolescence", viz. throw it out and buy a new one. :P

Windows already implements this with your existing hard drive it's called virtual memory. ;)

Richard S.

Richard, lol, I already knew about this.

I was just trying to think of a way that a user could come up with something faster for older machines.

RAM is up to 1,000 times faster than most harddisk drives.

SLOOOOWWW when using virtual memory.

I was thinking this could act as a memory extension.

Something almost as fast as memory, so a user could "upgrade" machines that were no longer supported for ram upgrades by manufacturers!

Do you really think USB/PCMCIA/CARDBUS is faster than IDE?? actually it's the other way around.

Also flash based devices have typically slow write performances as well limited write cycles.

I'm sure it would be nice to bung in an 8GB flash drive to boost your RAM but that's never going to happen. :huh:

Richard S.

Do you really think USB/PCMCIA/CARDBUS is faster than IDE?? actually it's the other way around.

Also flash based devices have typically slow write performances as well limited write cycles.

I'm sure it would be nice to bung in an 8GB flash drive to boost your RAM but that's never going to happen. :huh:

Richard S.

I wasn't sure about the speed of the actual controller for the PCMCIA slot, just that they have cheaper & more expensive ones from what I read where some of the cheaper ones have a lower burst speed, & more expensive ones have a higher speed.

Older laptops use USB 1.1 specifications, so I thought perhaps it is at least faster than that...

Would be cool, ya know, to come out with some way...

Oh well, maybe someone will come up with a memory slot adapter that will enable a laptop to accept newer ram types... So they can upgrade to at least 1 gb.

I know that you can use Splashtop OS for web access, but, I will think through a few options... :lol:

By the time you have splashed out to buy one, it would be a good bit of money towards a new computer.

I can imagine buying one, getting it all set up and then the computer dies of old age anyway :lol:

ummm SSD is just flash memory & therefor readyboost on vista or win7 should work.

ummm SSD is just flash memory & therefor readyboost on vista or win7 should work.

I have actually thought about that...

I haven't gotten around to trying it though.

How well would that work?

Anyone here tested it/know?