If you’re even a casual Star Wars fan, you probably know that the secret to the Millennium Falcon’s speed in hyperspace wasn’t just the oversized engines: it was the computer. That being the case, the Falcon probably had one of these HyperDrive4 SSD arrays inside, since it’s the fastest internal HD in the entire universe. Or on earth, at least. The HyperDrive4 fits into a standard 5.25? bay with an IDE or SATA connector, and instead of conventional NAND flash ram, it uses sticks of DDR… Up to eight of them, at 2 gigs each. Let me throw some numbers at you: according to the manufacturers, the HyperDrive4 can find files 8,000x faster than a 10,000 RPM magnetic HD, and serve them 125x faster. In practical terms, that means a full install of Windows XP in 7 minutes, and a boot to desktop time of 2 seconds flat.

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