-=PCTechTalk=- Re: What is a hybrid drive

Thanks... I have been reading...... interesting....

The prices most times are NOT more than a pata drive, and I was looking at 
external drives.  It could have been USB...but I typically buy only FireWire 
(Powered)...I just checked...the drive is both USB or Firewire 400 or 800. 
Now, all I need is money... haha!
Thanks again,
Rose
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Its a bit on the technical side... but, mostly you need to know that Vista 
will make use of this to make the drive work faster and more efficient.
Here's something more to read:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9002083

In general, buy "hybrid" if you can, though its not necessary.

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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:55:42 -0800, Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:
> I have seen some external drives on sale and they say they are
> hybrid drives. They also say you can run programs from these drives.
>
> Does anyone have one?
>
> Fry's has them on sale (external drives) and they are not more
> expensive.
>
> I guess I am missing something.....
>
> I got this definition from Wikipdia  but this does not address the
> running programs from them.
>
> hybrid drive is a new type of large-buffer computer hard disk
> drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it employs
> a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache
> data during normal use. By primarily using this large buffer for
> non-volatile data storage, the platters of the hard drive are at
> rest almost all of the time, instead of constantly spinning as they
> are in current hard drives. This offers numerous benefits, chief
> among them speed,[1] decreased power consumption, improved
> reliability, and a faster boot process.
> Hybrid drives are set to be released, primarily for notebook
> computers, in early 2007, with Samsung introducing their first
> drives in January, and Seagate in the first three months. At the
> moment, they are only known to be fully compatible with the
> upcoming Windows Vista operating system; Microsoft uses the name
> ReadyDrive to describe the software side of this technology.
>
> The command interface will be standardized in the new revision 8 of
> the ATA standard.
>
> Thanks for looking... Rose
>
>
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