On 29 Mar, 14:01, "Richard" <rfeir...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> One of the alleged magic tricks you can do with a laptop and a high end
> version of Vista is install a "Hybrid" Hard Drive or a second Hard Drive
> consisting of one of all solid state memory instead of a rotating disk.
>
> Has anyone tried this yet? If so does it in fact speed up any process or
> reduce power consumption, as alleged by Microsoft? I have yet to read any
> reviews of this technology, but lots of news about the new drives hitting
> the market.
>
> Richard.

Conventional hard disks already have some flash memory, I believe, but
the proposal with hybrid drives is to increase the flash component
considerably, for faster booting and reduced power consumption.
However, it looks as though Lenovo won't be rushing into this one:

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=46

Meanwhile, entire flash drive replacements for hard drives are already
in production, but not available to the likes of us. It strikes me
that these disks, which typically have a capacity of 32 GB or 64 GB,
might have been tolderable in the days of XP, but with Vista will
probably soon fill. All the same, people say they bring significant
performance benefits, and I'd love to get my hands on one.