Virtualization on ExpressCard SSD

[John89]

I have Windows7 running through VMware Fusion on my ExpressCard SSD. Its ridiculously fast! It has a Windows Performance Score of 7.4!!

I recommend it to all 'pre-sd slot' users.

Here is it: Clicky

 

[John89]

Edit.

I found the read/write times

115MB/s read
65MB/s write

 

[defender]

Thats good to know, I've been looking for something to do with my expresscard slot. Does the card stick out or is it flush with the side?

 

[John89]

Thats good to know, I've been looking for something to do with my expresscard slot. Does the card stick out or is it flush with the side?

You can barely see it when you look from the side, like 1mm. I was really impressed when I got it, expected it to stick out a cm or 2.

 

[John89]

Here are a few benchmarks for anyone interested...

I couldn't get write tests on a few things because its a disk partitioned disk. It wouldn't let me for whatever reason.

 

[Dexter v House]

I have Windows7 running through VMware Fusion on my ExpressCard SSD. Its ridiculously fast! It has a Windows Performance Score of 7.4!!

I recommend it to all 'pre-sd slot' users.

Here is it: Clicky

This is interesting.
Just to be clear do you have both Fusion and the VM installed on the SSD ? Or just the VM?
Bit surprised you're getting such a high score, it's still emulation at the end of the day regardless of the SSD speed factor, but hey, who's complaining?

 

[John89]

This is interesting.
Just to be clear do you have both Fusion and the VM installed on the SSD ? Or just the VM?
Bit surprised you're getting such a high score, it's still emulation at the end of the day regardless of the SSD speed factor, but hey, who's complaining?

VMware Fusion is installed on the OSX disk, and the virtual machine is running off the SSD.

Well the SSD is dedicated to Windows, so its running at full speed. If you had Windows on the same disk as OSX, then things would start to slow down.