Re: Vista and Solid State Hard Drive

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.

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