[jerrycraft]

Hi,
I only heard of Hybrid SSD today. What is this technology?

[GBH187]

A hybrid ssd drive is just a normal hard drive with some flash added,

Vista is required to take advantage of it because the flash is used by readyboost

you can achieve the same performance gain by purchasing a 2gb or 4gb usb memory stick and using it with vistas ready boost system.


Its not a new type of affordable hard disk, its a fail technology that is already dead

[vigge_sWe]

I belive SSD was made for laptops because it uses less power and it's silent and doesen't get very hot.

*moved to computers and technology*

[Nathan H]

SSD or solid state drives are most certainly NOT dead. they are jsut not used for home use because they are not cheap at all. SSD are used in new ultra-high end servers that expect stupidly high levels of traffic because of 2 inherent advantages with SSD over disk drives. SSD runs without a moter, this means its lifespan is extremely long compared to HDDs, and theres less sound/noise from them. They also have a massive transfer rate if setup correctly, able to read/write to any sector without having to seek.

[Zangetsu]

actually if you think of it SSD`s are not that expensive at all just take a usb drive like the corsair survivor its big enough to run windows xp on and a few programs,

[Nathan H]

there again, a usb flash drive is terribly slow compared to a full fledged SSD drive, though you would get the advantage of the low heat/no noise

[Zangetsu]

i wouldnt call 27.0 MB/s wright and 34.0 MB/s read slow

[Nathan H]

well considering the low-power laptop ssd drives can reach speeds of 250MB/sec read and 70MB/sec those speeds are pretty slow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-s...rd_disk_drives

theres a nice omparison list between HDD and SSD

[sunils]

This is going to be cool for vista users. If it was a pen drive, the access time to the usb port itself would be long and would not be advantageous for vista to use it as ready boast. But its integrated into the harddrive, it could be more advantageous as you all disscussed.

[Nathan H]

Vista i have seen booted in less than 30secs off of an SSD drive