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To: FJB who wrote (79376)	9/4/2012 9:28:08 AM
From: Mike McFarland	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

sorta OT. Might be fun to put the cheapest pc possible together, load programs and OS into ram off a thumb drive, use a small ssd for storage only. Wouldn't want to reboot very often.

To: FJB who wrote (79376)	9/5/2012 2:50:23 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Yep, I think with a no-frills board all I have is sata 2 (3gb/s) and I can't do too much better than this: newegg.com The current price after my rebate will be 42 cents a gigabyte! If I hadn't emptied my gmail trash just now, I might even have had another 10% off code good for a day or two, whoops. Even better than that I might try bidding on ebay. I think I can, with a little patience, get an Intel 320 series 160gb ssd and possibly get my cost down to around 35 cents a gig, ha! I saw your usb boot post too--the other day I finally installed the usb 3.0 drivers for an Asus p8z68-v based PC I assembled, so that will be a good test. I only have one usb3 thumb drive, but it has 16 gigs and that ought to be enough to have some fun.