New HDs with 128MB and 256MB caches

[Suture]

I was reading in Maximum PC (I think) an article about one person's experience with the current build of Vista. In it he mentioned he wasn't going to bother upgrading his HD until the new 128MB and 256MB cache drives were available, probably coming out around when Vista goes live.

Does anyone know anything about these HDs, or where I can find more information?

 

[HannibalX]

??

My Raptor has a 16MB buffer. I thought that was as good as it gets on retail drivers (non-server).

 

[krotchy]

Ive only seen one announced 256MB buffer drive, and it was a 5400 RPM notebook hard drive that seagate announced. Im sure there are more, but I dont think they are going to be a real solution for at least a year.

 

[zephyrprime]

The new drives have a bunch of flash memory on them. They probably still have a sram cache a well. They're coming to desktops and are already arriving in laptops.

Hopefully, MS will be smart and modify NTFS so it really takes advantage of the flash cache on these drives. I would like to see the master file table, the journal, and as many directory tables as possible put onto the flash portion of the drive. Doing these three things could yield a serious speed boost in my opinion.

I've only read MS talking about using the flash to boot faster which I think is nice but not enough.

 

[Suture]

Cool, thanks for the info. I really don't know anything about them, just wanted to make sure they were really coming out. Would love to get one for my laptop when they're available.

 

[Aluvus]

Hybrid drives?

 

[Suture]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
Hybrid drives?

:thumbsup:

Thanks!