HP rejects Intel's Turbo Memory

ReadyDrive nice but ReadyBoost a gimmick.: ReadyDrive on paper, appears to be good when there's a lot of localized IO which can then use the NVRAM on the drive rather than read/writes to the disk platter itself. However I have my concerns about the disk longevity when the drive has to constantly spin down and spin up.

They also pitch some other stuff about how ready-drive improves hibernate and resume, etc, but frankly I feel they wasted too much time on unnecessary bling. A hibernate / resume is a one time operation which, when completed does not affect the performance of the system afterwards. I really can't understand why they spend so much money and time to save 2 seconds off a hibernate-resume cycle.

As for ReadyBoost, this is nothing that can't be achieved with a larger swap, in fact, we've seen excellent performance improvements with big swap sizes on regular hard drives. I really don't see the point of using something that's far slower to write/read compared to a run of the mill 5400RPM hard disk or RAM, in order to "boost" system performance.; Posted by: kraterz Posted on: 06/05/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use