Quoted: HOLY FUCKING POPUPS BATMAN!!!! edit: oops, pop-up blocker off.
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You sure you don't have a virus? I didn't get any popups, and I don't have a popup blocker turned on.
(Then again, I opened the Linux ones. Maybe the Windows ones had the popups??)
Lessee, last time I checked, DDR DRAM was $80 per 1GB, so we're talking about somewhere around $700 for this 8GB hard drive. Meanwhile, a 120GB drive cost me $60 two years ago (admittedly I got a hell of a good deal). My whole computer system (midrange system, Asus A7VT Terminator with Athlon 2700, 1GB RAM, a DVD burner, a CD burner, and two 120GB disks) cost me less than that drive when fully populated.
Not that it won't be faster, but is your hard drive speed really that much of a problem? Mine does pretty well even when I'm moving 700MB of data around at a time for CD images. Maybe I have to wait thirty seconds or a minute, but it's just not that big of a deal in the scheme of things.
Scratch drives for video editing, ok. If they can cram in two more DIMMs, you could deal with a whole DVD ISO image in RAM, which might be nice. If I ever get into that, I might pick one up, but more likely I'd add the memory to the motherboard so that I could use it either as a ramdrive or as regular memory, depending on what I was doing.