Solid State Disks

Jun 15, 2004 7 Replies

Anyone use SolidState Disks? You can find them at

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It is a PCI card that is full of 1gb-4gb of memory that is used for page file or storage of items you want to run very fast.



Thanks, Mike Grant O'Ryan Industries


I gather you are the maker of these? its a little naughty to say 1000x faster cause its tied to PCI bus so actually IO is only about 6-7x at best? and you still need to load and save the data to HD somewhere. I am thinking in reality it would probably better to spend the money on a faster processor. do you have any real world performance data to share re CAD? cheers

Lol, no one of my friends suggested it but I thought I should see if people have used it and I am not sure how to describe it so I put a link. Why do you guys always think someone makes something or is trying to promote it, lol. I guess I didn't think it was funny until I was accused. If you look up O'Ryan Industries I don't think you will find one of those devices.

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I used one of these a long time a go.(windows.1) Do they still make them? Yes they do speed things up,(a lot!), it looks like another hard disk as far as the system is concerned. Very useful if programming.

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Serious, hmm. What kind of programming, you mean CAM. I do CAM and that is what I am looking for is to speed things up. How do you go about using them. Do you store your files their, your program, or just the page file?

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You store your files there, there is a company that makes them, I found in the PCPlus Mag. They are very expensive, but worth it They transfer data at 3Gb/s, some 250 times faster than a conventional HDD. I was programming micro-processors, by the way.

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for further info.

No, I do not work for or have any dealings with this company, just passing the address on. :-)

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