Ebay Item number: 330016440056
8GB Solid State Drive (SSD) IDE Flash Med

Is this not the type of device you are looking for.. 8 gb solid state
drive? You can get one on Ebay for under $425 USD. The 4 gig ones are
under $200 USD it appears. The prices are falling more as time goes by.

Windows XP needs just under 4 gig to load. Another 2 gig if you put
office on it. You can keep your docs on external flash media if you
want/need.. but most of us wont use up 2 gigs unless its music/video stuff.

Flitedeck is allegedly only 400 MB according to jepps site.



Peter wrote:
I am a PPL/IR private pilot, running various GPS apps (notably Jepp
Flitedeck) on a Motion LS800 table PC.

The hard drive packs up at around 14,000 feet, crashing the unit.

Flash alternatives (I believe it is a 1.8" HD inside) are extremely
costly, around USD 2000 for 8GB, and I wonder how successful it would
be to put in a 4GB SD card (for which there is a slot), put all maps
on that, etc.

The problem is that Windoze itself accesses various bits of the HD
anyway, and does anyone know which bits, and can they be moved to the
SD card?

Has anyone tried this?

I reckon that, as a minimum, one would need to move the windoze
swapfile, and registry, to the SD card. Once upon a time I had to run
a program called Filemon to monitor disk accesses, to see why an auto
power-down SCSI HD would keep powering back up again, and I found a
registry access every 1 second or so, plus an access (for no apparent
reason) to every fixed HD every few minutes. This was on NT4 though.