hybrid drives?

[seanandnik]

anyone seen these for sale anywhere yet? I heard Samsung has put one out and they are supposed to awesomely fast when used with Vista. The ones I have seen have only had around 256 0r 512k of flash though with 120gb. this flash seems kind of small no? i guess it must load frequently used startup programs on the flash and there will be no need to spoin a disc to load an os. Sounds pretty good, would like to know what you guys know/think though...

 

[Vipernitrox]

I've heard a lot about it recently. But you can accomplish about the same thing when you plug in a sd card or some other flash memory into your card reader or usb port.

it'll cost you about the same. You get a much larger hd and you can pick the size and speed of your sd card or something like that. (i suggest you buy something really fast but not bigger than 1gb.

Edit: only counts for Vista though

 

[Geoff]

You must mean 256MB or 512MB, since they already have drives with 8MB and 16MB of cache.


The hybrid drives will be faster, and much more effective then Vista's "readyboost". There are lots of problems with readyboost anyways, sure flash memory has higher read/write times then a hard drive, but they have no where near as fast random access times and speeds.

 

[Vipernitrox]

uhmm no offense omega but a hybrid hd is in my knowledge just a plain hd with some flash memory added into it. And it also has 8 or 16mb cache memory. The flash is just so the hd won't spin that much and it has higher access times.