Vista Squad

You gotta see this: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=238608

Vista supports the use of a hybrid hard drive which has both a standard HDD coupled with some flash memory to give better performance, extend hard drive life and also consume less power through the spinning down of hard drive and utlisation of flash memory....

This is very cool stuff!!!!

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Ravi Nar
"Somebody give me the baton I wanna run!"

James Senior has done this screencast on ReadyDrive :)

http://blogs.technet.com/james/pages/vista-screencasts.aspx

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Ravi Nar
"Somebody give me the baton I wanna run!"

Been looking at that.  Seems production is going to be pretty limited on ReadyDrive which is a real shame.

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Ray Booysen
ray@vistasquad.co.uk

Hi Ray

Have you seen this podcast from Seagate about ReadyDrive. Features their Seagate® Momentus® 5400 PSD hybrid drives.

http://www.podtech.net/home/3805/seagate-announces-hybrid-drive-for-laptops/

They seem quite well priced at the moment at Aprox £92.00+VAT for 160GB

http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=8276

 

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scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk

Hmm, thats pretty expensive for 160GB considering prices of 500GB at the moment.  Hoping for price decreases. ;)

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Ray Booysen
ray@vistasquad.co.uk

Hi Ray

The price and link shown was for a 2.5" laptop drive, as I belive laptops will benifit more (battery life etc).

Normal disks around the 160GB mark are at about £70.00 to £80.00 so it's not to bad a difference, considering it's the latest technology.

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scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk