On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 23:13 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
This is part of the new Vista technology (called readydrive I believe?)
Pah why does this have to be a "Vista" technology, it should be done at a hardware level dammit. I guess they want the OS to decide what bits are worth marking as being better on the flash (Like the hibernate image) But then even that is flawed because if you extend your system memory over the size of the flash you are stuffed surely. Lets face it given Vista's minimum and recommended requirements nobody is going to be using this with 256MB RAM.
In the older days of computing (I believe during the 80's) a common way to speed up hard disk was to have a megabyte or two of ram on the disks controller (especially used in database applications) which was battery backed up with a couple of AA batteries.
This is still very common on SCSI RAID controllers, if you power up any Compaq server with the 5i Storageworks controller that has been left off for a while it will warn you that it is running in degraded performance until it's batteries are fully charged.