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

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:23:06 -0800, Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:
> 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "~OoO~"
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> Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:46 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: What
> is a hybrid drive
>
>
> 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=printArticleBas
> ic&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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