Windows Vista: Ready for ReadyDrive | Charles

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Wow, this is really amazing stuff. 44sec to 26sec, just from the hybrid drive. And if you enabled super fetch/readyboost, or what it is called, this will increase performence on Vista, really nicely.

I think the hardware guys are doing some real good stuff.

I cant wait till Vista RTM. I really think its gonna blow us away, with all that speed Cool

This have really huge potential. When the price for, for instance, for 1gb units, you could, in many cases, actually store all your data, from your "Users" folder, that contains all documents and stuff.

Is there any info on, how much power can you save, from using this hybrid drives?

With the new Core 2 Duo chips, that underclock themself drasticly, and are 65nm, and use next to no power, when on idle, this is really looking good.

Also, it seems like an ATA interface, and i think he said they actually had ATA interface.

What are the chances that we will see a SATA 2 interface? If that is gonna happen, i will buy a such drive, once they are out, for my vista system for sure.

Also, would it be an idea, to store the index of the harddrive(In context of the indexing service in vista), in the hybrid part of the drive?

joeypruett

I love this stuff! I can seem some differences between ReadyDrive and ReadyBoost - such as wanting your hibernate file in flash that can't be removed from the machine - but otherwise, they seem similar. Are there any other differences?

-Joey

BryanF

joeypruett wrote:
I love this stuff! I can seem some differences between ReadyDrive and ReadyBoost - such as wanting your hibernate file in flash that can't be removed from the machine - but otherwise, they seem similar. Are there any other differences?

-Joey

I'd think the main advantage of ReadyBoost is that you can leverage it with a reasonably fast USB stick and probably just about any relatively modern computer. You can't use ReadyDrive unless you have a hybrid drive.

BryanF

Regarding the ability for OEMs to choose which applications are cached, is there a way for users to modify or shutoff this feature? I'm sorry if it seems rather cynical, but previous examples of letting OEMs control the software experience have been less than encouraging.

cwilliams1145

BryanF wrote:
Regarding the ability for OEMs to choose which applications are cached, is there a way for users to modify or shutoff this feature? I'm sorry if it seems rather cynical, but previous examples of letting OEMs control the software experience have been less than encouraging.

It was metnioned in the video that this will be controlled through registry settings, so yes this is configurable. He gave an example of being able to add LOB apps to the list of cached apps.

nmarcel
The Singularity is near.

It makes me think ... Smiley

Today I can buy a 300GB hardisk at low cost, but still the mechanical factor makes it slow for loading Windows, VisualStudio, games and so on... Year by year the disk is bigger, but is not so faster. Mad

So... thinking in year 2012 I hope not to have a market with 10TB disks still suffering with the "impedance mismatch" (if i can say it) of mechanical pieces. I would preffer to have a 100GB storage device, but purely electronic, fast and persistent. Tongue Out

Anybody knows if that kind of technology exists today, at least as a protoype? I mean... somenthing like a beyond-flash memory. Where are the links/articles about them?

I think the hard disk (for day-to-day working) should be the next piece on a museum, following the CRTs and Diskettes. Smiley

SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.

this is cool. But I think the real solution to the Hard-drive performance problem is to have hard drives with multi-reader heads, that will enable multiple queries or read/write operations happening simultanously. So, one can have a drive with a circular readors mounted on top of the hard drive surface, and these multiple heads will do the read write as the surface is spinning. So like a circle (heads circle ) on top of the actual surface (on top could be ont he top surface or bottom surface or both). So you have these heads organized in a circle on top or on the bottom surfaces of the actual drive surface doing Read/Write operations concurrently. This in addition to the hybrid idea can improve the performance significantly. Would not that be the case?

But cool Video. And the sound quality of this video is super.

nbradshaw
Where Ever the Wind Blows...

Impressive stuff!:O

This maybe vista only hardware at the moment but you can just see other parties stepping upto the plate to take advantage of this (as much as is feasable) in XP, unless MS provides this first.

Jack Poison
At what price, Freedom?

I wonder how long it will take Apple or any of the Open Source OS's to utilize these features.