Windows 7 / XBMC on Flashdrive

[Dolby]

I've got Windows 7 and XBMC running on the 250GB HDD that comes with the HP Microserver.

I was wondering if I ran it from a 16GB flash drive instead - would it be faster? Part of me says yes, as it is flash memory - but what about bus speeds and all those good things? Someone said they may be slower than the SATA connection of a HDD?

 

[flarkit]

Startup would be quicker, as seek times are typically lower for flash memory than mechanical disks. However, transfer speeds would be slower, so loading of large files might be slower (speaking under correction here)

I ran Openelec (which is essentially XBMC on a streamlined Linux distro) from an 8Gb flash disk for 2 years with no complaints.

 

[al360]

I've got Windows 7 and XBMC running on the 250GB HDD that comes with the HP Microserver.

I was wondering if I ran it from a 16GB flash drive instead - would it be faster? Part of me says yes, as it is flash memory - but what about bus speeds and all those good things? Someone said they may be slower than the SATA connection of a HDD?

why dont u just run it from a android hdmi dongle works like a charm do away with the need for a pc in total.
just dont use a single core cheapie a bit of lag on running apps.

 

[PsyWulf]

I've got Windows 7 and XBMC running on the 250GB HDD that comes with the HP Microserver.

I was wondering if I ran it from a 16GB flash drive instead - would it be faster? Part of me says yes, as it is flash memory - but what about bus speeds and all those good things? Someone said they may be slower than the SATA connection of a HDD?

Some flash drives use very cheap chips that don't have high transfer rates. Especially if we're talking USB2

I've tried running Win8 from a USB2 drive as an experiment - It never reached the desktop

 

[JustAsk]

I've got Windows 7 and XBMC running on the 250GB HDD that comes with the HP Microserver.

I was wondering if I ran it from a 16GB flash drive instead - would it be faster? Part of me says yes, as it is flash memory - but what about bus speeds and all those good things? Someone said they may be slower than the SATA connection of a HDD?

Buy on of these and run it off a compact flash card. The cf card are seen as a hard drive.
http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/157917450/SATA_to_CF_Adapter_Turn_any_CF_card_into_a_HARDDRIVE.html