[plug] [OT] Acer Lappy

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 09:26, Senectus . wrote:
> Samsung just announced solid state flash drives for laptops by the end
> of the year.. (only 16 gig though).

> That should drop power requirements and increase speed substantially!

Dunno about the speed, unless the drive is internally cacheing and writing 
to several chips in parallel. The price of 16GB of flash is still kind of 
breath-taking, too.

If suspend-to-RAM works, then what's wrong with aggressively caching 
everything, retaining the cache across power-downs, and coming up in a 
low-power mode (that could never require a CPU fan or generate enormous 
heat) to straighten out the cache when the laptop is plugged into mains? 
4GB of cache should be able to hold most of the things you routinely use, 
and would cost a *lot* less than replacing even a 40GB HDD with Flash.

Cheers; Leon

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