Flash disk drive

[telkomsuig]

I've seen falsh disk drives coming onto the market.... would the use of a flash disk for say an operating system drive help with performance? I'm thinking the seek times should be faster on a flash drive...

 

[ebendl]

Windows Vista has this functionality (uses your flash drive as a cache/swap drive), but then again, rather use the few grands you would spend on Vista and buy more RAM.

 

[ap0c]

Make sure you get a Flash Drive thats actually fast. The generic USB drives from most suppliers are however slow.

 

[werner]

he is talking about hhd, hybrid hard drives, or perhaps the muchos expensive pure flash drives.
not readyboost for flash drives. this isnt a usb pendrive thing he is talking about

 

[bwana]

I've seen falsh disk drives coming onto the market.... would the use of a flash disk for say an operating system drive help with performance? I'm thinking the seek times should be faster on a flash drive...

I'm not sure about performance but I'd assume (hopefully correctly) that it would increase laptop battery life.

 

[|tera|]

I just forced readyboost on Vista with a 1GB flash drive, I can't say I've seen a performance increase, but it's only been two minutes, it just feels good

here's the guide, I don't care about the comments, if it doesn't work it's up to me to find out

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=525320