On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Chris Frederick wrote: >> Maybe you can boot from flash memory? > > It has options for Solid-state IDE Flash drives, but they're kinda > spendy: > > 1GB Solid state IDE flash Hard drive(+$109.00) > 2GB Solid state IDE flash Hard drive(+$179.00) > 4GB Solid state IDE flash Hard drive(+$289.00) > > For those prices I can live with the hard drive noise... No kidding. That is a lot of cash. You can get a lot of HDD volume for that kind of money these days. Mike