Flash memory in Hybrid hard drives *save* power
 

Where's the guy who was insisting that flash memory wouldn't save power
over hard drives?

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1789189,00.asp

Appropriate quote:

"Samsung Semiconductor executives said Monday that the concept of a hard
drive incorporating flash memory will be a reality, and come to market
in mid-2006.

The drive, first talked about at last year's Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, will be manufactured by
Samsung's hard disk drive division, according to the company. The drive
will be initially targeted at notebooks, where the drive's low power
consumption will yield the most benefit."

Wow, imagine that, flash memory saves power!?

Randy S.

"Howard" . wrote in message
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"Randy S." wrote in news:d4op10$l58$1
@spnode25.nerdc.ufl.edu:

Where's the guy who was insisting that flash memory wouldn't save power
over hard drives?

He wandered off after a week, like I predicted. Hopefully this won't wake
him back up, but if it does, he'll get bored again eventually.

As long as your post doesn't contain certain keywords, he probably won't be
back. Make sure your posts don't contain the words "pow*er", "sur*ge" and
"dam*age" (asterisks put in to throw off search engine), he probably won't
find them.

Seth wrote:
"Howard" . wrote in message
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"Randy S." wrote in news:d4op10$l58$1
@spnode25.nerdc.ufl.edu:

Where's the guy who was insisting that flash memory wouldn't save power
over hard drives?


He wandered off after a week, like I predicted. Hopefully this won't
wake
him back up, but if it does, he'll get bored again eventually.


As long as your post doesn't contain certain keywords, he probably won't
be back. Make sure your posts don't contain the words "pow*er",
"sur*ge" and "dam*age" (asterisks put in to throw off search engine), he
probably won't find them.


Those are really odd things to get fixated on!?

Randy S.

"Randy S." wrote in message
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As long as your post doesn't contain certain keywords, he probably won't
be back. Make sure your posts don't contain the words "pow*er", "sur*ge"
and "dam*age" (asterisks put in to throw off search engine), he probably
won't find them.

Those are really odd things to get fixated on!?

Do a search of his postings and you'll see. All over Usenet, when the
issues alluded to above come around, he's there to preach.

Once upon a time, Seth said:
Do a search of his postings and you'll see. All over Usenet, when the
issues alluded to above come around, he's there to preach.

Yep. Saw him here, then a couple of months later he popped into a local
(Huntsville, Alabama) newsgroup with the same messages. You forgot the
word "gr0und" BTW.
--
Chris Adams
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

"Howard" . wrote in message
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"Seth" wrote in
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Do a search of his postings and you'll see. All over Usenet, when the
issues alluded to above come around, he's there to preach.

Is he always that mind-bogglingly wrong?

I mean...if I spent my time grepping the news spool for a certain subject,
I'd at least open a friggin' primer on the topic first, if not take pains
to
familiarize myself with it.

Most of what he says in regards to grounding and such in the satellite
newsgroups is correct, but I guess he saw his "keywords" here, saw this
group as a new frontier and went to town.

"Chris Adams" wrote in message
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Once upon a time, Seth said:
Do a search of his postings and you'll see. All over Usenet, when the
issues alluded to above come around, he's there to preach.

Yep. Saw him here, then a couple of months later he popped into a local
(Huntsville, Alabama) newsgroup with the same messages. You forgot the
word "gr0und" BTW.

Well, that's his thing. Usually that word is absent in the original post
and he pops in to provide it.

Randy S. wrote:
"The drive will be initially targeted at notebooks, where the drive's
low power consumption will yield the most benefit."

Wow, imagine that, flash memory saves power!?

Yes, for typical workday non-video applications.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1585978,00.asp

"Filling up a 128-Mbyte flash chip may require writing to the disk
once every 11 minutes or so, in a worst-case scenario [on a laptop]."

A one-gigibit chip (128 megabytes) handles only 40 seconds at 3 MB/s.
-Joe

Joe Smith wrote:
Randy S. wrote:

"The drive will be initially targeted at notebooks, where the drive's
low power consumption will yield the most benefit."

Wow, imagine that, flash memory saves power!?


Yes, for typical workday non-video applications.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1585978,00.asp

"Filling up a 128-Mbyte flash chip may require writing to the disk
once every 11 minutes or so, in a worst-case scenario [on a laptop]."

A one-gigibit chip (128 megabytes) handles only 40 seconds at 3 MB/s.
-Joe

There's a reason it's a "hybrid" drive. Flash memory ain't quite up to
the task on it's own yet. One day . . . .

The new "perpindicular" HD's sound interesting though. Expect sizes
well above 500 GB next year.

Randy S.

There's a reason it's a "hybrid" drive. Flash memory ain't quite up to
the task on it's own yet. One day . . . .

The new "perpindicular" HD's sound interesting though. Expect sizes
well above 500 GB next year.

Randy S.

If I could only spell "perpendicular"!

Randy S.