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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Samsung and Microsoft to 'flash' hard drives: "When the flash memory is full, the hard disk drive is spun up and the data is written to disk."
This is interesting. Seems more like an L3 cache of sorts. Though, I wonder, why not have it such that Windows auto-detects this and places the pagefile on flash. That might significantly reduce the need for the disk to be spinning. posted by Farookh at 11:05 PM Comment (2)  
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Flash memory has a lifetime that is specified in number of writes, right? In that case, for everything to go through flash may not be such a good idea. Hard drives can currently last indefinitely, apart from physical damage.
-K
Another interesting thing coming out of Longhorn is the support for microphone arrays for better sound capture.
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