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.

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> 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.
>

AFAIK hybrid HD combine classic technology and flash memory. Am I wrong ?

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.

Are you talking about ReadyBoost ? If so, It's using a USB Thumb drive
as more memory for the system.
I've Installed it. But it only works with some USB Thumb drives not all.

It works, No numbers to show how much. But It's always accessing that
drive by the light flashing.
I have a 1mb being used. Out of 4 that I own only 2 would be seen to be
used. It will test it before giving the ok for it to be used. I'm trying
it to see how long it's going to last before it dies.

A friend uses a 4 gb one and tells me that he can see a big Improvement.
YMMV

Richard 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 drives have some DRAM, it's not flash memory (e.g. it
forgets when the power is turned off). Hybrid drives have Flash, which
allows the hard drive to begin booting before the platters have finished
spinning up, and to reduce power consumption (and, perhaps, to increase
speed).

Allan wrote:
> 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.
>

No, hybrid drives are distinct from ReadyBoost


Kevin Weaver wrote:
> Are you talking about ReadyBoost ? If so, It's using a USB Thumb drive
> as more memory for the system.
> I've Installed it. But it only works with some USB Thumb drives not all.
>
> It works, No numbers to show how much. But It's always accessing that
> drive by the light flashing.
> I have a 1mb being used. Out of 4 that I own only 2 would be seen to be
> used. It will test it before giving the ok for it to be used. I'm trying
> it to see how long it's going to last before it dies.
>
> A friend uses a 4 gb one and tells me that he can see a big Improvement.
> YMMV
>
> Richard 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.
>>
>>