Hybrid Drives to Speed Vista
Monday, June 26, 2006 01:00 AM PDT
http://pcworld.com/article/id,126173.../article.html#
Flashy Notebook Drives
The Buzz: More details are emerging about the power-saving, performance-boosting hybrid hard drives from Samsung and Seagate. These intriguing disks include a built-in cache of ultrafast flash memory to help PCs run Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system more efficiently. The first models will be notebook hard drives with either 128MB or 256MB of buffer. Vista can use this nonvolatile memory to accelerate performance and boot times (by caching frequently used data), to prioritize data transfers (making your machine more responsive), to spin down the disk (boosting battery life), and to let PC vendors "pin" important applications in the cache permanently (thereby achieving faster program load times).
Monday, June 26, 2006 01:00 AM PDT
http://pcworld.com/article/id,126173.../article.html#
Flashy Notebook Drives
The Buzz: More details are emerging about the power-saving, performance-boosting hybrid hard drives from Samsung and Seagate. These intriguing disks include a built-in cache of ultrafast flash memory to help PCs run Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system more efficiently. The first models will be notebook hard drives with either 128MB or 256MB of buffer. Vista can use this nonvolatile memory to accelerate performance and boot times (by caching frequently used data), to prioritize data transfers (making your machine more responsive), to spin down the disk (boosting battery life), and to let PC vendors "pin" important applications in the cache permanently (thereby achieving faster program load times).
