Fire Flash as boot drive?

[After G]

http://www.kanguru.com/fireflash.html

I was thinking of getting one of these (4 GB version, ~$400) as a boot drive for my iBook.

Is it worth it in terms of speed increase if I get one of these, or should I just opt for a 7200 rpm notebook hard drive instead?

I was thinking that I didn't want to muck around with the inside of my computer until it is out of warranty, and I am not really lacking for storage space.

 

[CanadaRAM]

http://www.kanguru.com/fireflash.html

I was thinking of getting one of these (4 GB version, ~$400) as a boot drive for my iBook.

Is it worth it in terms of speed increase if I get one of these, or should I just opt for a 7200 rpm notebook hard drive instead?

I was thinking that I didn't want to muck around with the inside of my computer until it is out of warranty, and I am not really lacking for storage space.

Go with the hard drive. Some points:

The flasd keychain speed is listed as 400 Mbits per second. That's the Firewire 400 rate, NOT the flash memory's rate.

You don't want flash memory as a boot drive... although read time may be acceptable, iits write time is way slow, and it will die after 1,000,000 writes. This is not an issue for a camera, or for daily data backup, but your boot drive is also where your scratch files are, the OS writes to the scratch area constantly - 1,000's of times a day.

 

[After G]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I guess I'll get the hard drive then.