Samsung's Hybrid Hard Drive Exposed

Erica Campbell writes "Samsung is preparing to release a new Flash memory-assisted computer hard drive that boasts improved performance, reduced energy consumption, a faster boot time, and better reliability. The new hybrid hard drive will be released around the same time as the upcoming Windows Vista operating system and will be one of the first hardware designed specifically to benefit from it."

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Re:SuperFetch uncool...

[cbhacking]

You, sir (or madam), have NO idea what you're talking about. Superfetch will use up to about 40% of your RAM (not pagefile) and backs off when you need the RAM. Even when, for example, browsing lots of tabs, doing email, listening to music, and using IM - and switching back and forth periodically - I often get almost no page faults. Yes, there's a fair bit in my pagefile... but I rarely get page faults above 10/minute, total. SuperFetch actually works pretty well, and it would be utterly idiotic to swap it... or make it take so much RAM everything else needs to swap.

Calling Vista a "tweaked XP" is almost like Win95 a "tweaked DOS + Windows 3.11." It's not just a new interface, people!