ReadyDrive insight from Samsung Director
ReadyDrive is a new technology in Vista that functions as a read-write buffer between the motherboard and the hard disk. Special hard disks are being developed by companies like Samsung and Seagate which have flash memory embedded within that provide the buffer itself.
The goal is to provide quicker sleep and resume times and also improve battery life on portable devices. Here are some quotes taken from eWeek and an interview with Samsung's Director of Flash memory, Don Barnetson.
Several new and novel advantages of flash-enabled drives were proposed at the conference. For example, Ayers suggested that some users reported that the drives were more quiet than conventional drives.
Don Barnetson, director of flash marketing for Samsung Semiconductor, of San Jose, said that if a flash subsystem can keep a hard drive powered down for 90 to 95 percent of the time, this can protect it during a fall.
"If your notebook is dropped, the odds will be that it's going to be dropped when the hard drive isn't running. That can bring a 5X improvement in reliability for the drive," he said.
Barnetson said the company's first hybrid drives will ship with 256MB caches, which will support sleep times for drives of about 10 to 20 minutes.
"Over time we will grow the amount of cache in that hard drive. Rather than spin up a few times an hour, maybe we can get to the point where it spins only a few times a day," he said.
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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