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chrispix
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dallas, tx, usa
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 Posted - 10/28/2002 : 6:37:46 PM
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| Cenatek Rocket Drive review forum. |
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chrispix
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dallas, tx, usa
278 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2002 : 11:28:30 AM
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| Cenatek will be shortly giving our readers discounts on their products. Please come back, and see what you need to do, to get a discount. |
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chrispix
Sergeant
dallas, tx, usa
278 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2002 : 7:52:42 PM
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| Cenatek is offering 15% off any of the rocket drive purchases. Either with memory or without(less expensive). If you would like the 15% off, please respond in this forum, and I will email you a special coupon code that you can use for 15% off. That can save you upto $750 on a 4Gig populated Rocket Drive. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. |
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dartgeek
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Posted - 11/08/2002 : 9:53:16 PM
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Did you do any testing between the rocket drive and a standard hard disk drive. 4 gigs in this day and age is the 1.44 disk for the hardcore gamer. Remember how much a XP install takes up now a days. I know the gaming sector isnt what this card is targeted at but still this is quite intersting.
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dune
Sergeant
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 02:15:43 AM
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[i]Originally posted by dartgeek[/i]
[br]Did you do any testing between the rocket drive and a standard hard disk drive. 4 gigs in this day and age is the 1.44 disk for the hardcore gamer. Remember how much a XP install takes up now a days. I know the gaming sector isnt what this card is targeted at but still this is quite intersting.
True, but that's why you only put the stuff you want to load fast on it. OS, games, etc... your movie and mp3 collections can go on a normal drive... who cares if they take an extra .03 seconds to load. |
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thashyzz
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 04:27:53 AM
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rock!! I totally want to try one out now! :) Could you send me the code please?
TIA.
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threeclaws
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USA
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 04:58:02 AM
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Hi everyone, I'm new, got directed to the review from [H]. I love the idea of a solid state drive and have been drooling over the idea since I saw the first all "RAM" drive at the last macworld, at the time they wanted $10k now it's $3k while the price is going down for anyone seriously considering buying the drive, I have found a way to cut $2k off the top of the 2GB model, and subsequent lower models using the same methodology.
1) Buy the 2GB DL series of the rocket drive (ie no memory) use 15% off coupon, price is $594.15
2) Go over to crucial.com and buy item number CT64M64S4D75 add 4 sticks of the 512MB ram to your cart for a total of $230.36
3) Add the totals together and you have $824.51
This is in following with rocket drive's ideals, as they have memory modules that are compatible with their system listed here, http://www.cenatek.com/approvedmemory.htm
I hope this helps some people put there, since this will deifnately be an upcoming purchase of mine, I may even try a 6GB (2GB rocket drive x3) in my cpu.
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BlueF
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 11:54:12 AM
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| What a cool device! Bout time someone came up with a retail product like this, specially with memory prices getting more and more reasonable (for 1GB+). However, the board PRICE is anything but reasonable!?! I'd be waiting until they've dropped by a factor of 10. |
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ja50n
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 12:26:45 PM
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Hi, U've got me interested! please can you send me the details for the 15% voucher.
Do you know when the new larger/battery backup version is comming out?
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chrispix
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dallas, tx, usa
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 12:59:57 PM
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* NOTE * I will be sending coupons out this afternoon for those that would like them.
As for newer / larger / battery backup. I had read some things on their forums, but other than the rumors on their forums, I am not sure when they would be coming out with them. |
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snicker
Administrator
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 1:39:30 PM
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[i]Originally posted by dartgeek[/i]
[br]Did you do any testing between the rocket drive and a standard hard disk drive.
The review mentions performance improvements between game load times on the ram drive as opposed to a standard HD. |
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chrispix
Sergeant
dallas, tx, usa
278 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2002 : 2:44:27 PM
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Did you do any testing between the rocket drive and a standard hard disk drive. 4 gigs in this day and age is the 1.44 disk for the hardcore gamer. Remember how much a XP install takes up now a days. I know the gaming sector isnt what this card is targeted at but still this is quite intersting.
Most of the testing I did, was between a 7200RPM ATA 100 80 Gig hard drive and the Rocket drive. All the photoshop/Battle Field 1942 comparisons were those, as the 2 benchmarking tools. |
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sacremon
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 5:57:56 PM
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I imagine you're going to have a fair number of people coming in to look at this now that it is posted on Slashdot.
As far as RAMdrives go, I have the main memory of my workstation segmented to give me an 830MB RAMdrive and 1200MB of main memory. I use the RAMdrive for scratch space for Photoshop and SOund Forge. It really makes a difference in how long it takes to render photos or sounds with the respective programs. If you do any work with those kind of applications, it is well worth the money.
I'm interested in the coupon as well. I could use reclaiming that 840MB of RAM in the main memory, and dedicate the PCI RAMdrive to handle the other stuff, now that PC133 RAM is cheap.
Edit: The Crucial 512MB modules are available at Newegg for $55 apiece (e.g $220 for 4) with free shipping. |
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transcendentnb2
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USA
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Posted - 11/09/2002 : 11:37:56 PM
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| What a waste of money.... |
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jdidom
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Posted - 11/10/2002 : 12:18:51 AM
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Hi,
Read your review on the Cenatek Rocket Drive and I want one like yesterday. No more HD bottleneck, and the price isn't too outrageous, specially if you buy an empty card and populate it yourself.
So, please send me the discount code when you get it, please!
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wowy
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Posted - 11/10/2002 : 12:29:10 AM
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The idea is nice, but the implementation leaves something to be desired. The max bandwidth of PC133 SDRAM is what, 1024MB/s? That card is 32-bit/33MHz PCI, 133MB/s bandwidth shared with everything else on the bus (sound card, IDE controllers, etc.). If this were something like a 64-bit PCI-X/133MHz card (1066MB/s bandwidth) I could see it being much more worthwhile. For $3,000 you could buy a heck of a lot of SCSI drives and make yourself a nice little RAID array. My SCSI RAID card and two 18GB 15K RPM drives get me a max read speed of 138MB/s, more than that card even promises as its maximum, and a heck of a lot more than we saw in the review. My card is the LSI Logic MegaRAID Elite 1600 dual channel U160 SCSI, and sells for about $800 with 64MB of PC100 RAM used as cache onboard. The drives are $150 a piece, plus $40 per cable and terminator. You can easily upgrade the RAM to 128MB if you cared to (although it won't do much good unless you're doing video editing). All in all, a SCSI RAID setup will give you more performance, more storage space, and all for much less. Heck, just throw two drives on per channel and you've got one incredibly fast storage system. Want to really have some fun? Add on another drive per channel, you can have up to 15 on each. All that I want to say is, before you run out and buy this thing, just look at some better alternatives.
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