Comments on: Intel cuts PC boot time

Robson technology demonstrated in Taipei lets you bypass the hard drive to wake up your PC fast.

[Roman12]

Awsome

I think eventually, notebook hard drives would be replaced by flash memory. It's getting cheaper and cheaper every single year at a high rate. It's fast, it does not consume a lot of power. I've seen the 4GB chip inside the Ipod Nano, and I've got to say that its really impossibley small, theres still room for making it smaller. If they could just take a couple of those and stick them into a hard drive cover they could get 20-40GB no problem. Or just priduce bigger chips the size of hard drives. :)
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[jzsaxpc]

Thats great, but price?

Sure, its great that spacewise, and power consumption you can simply load 40 little RAND chips into the space of a HDD, wow, it might even hold like 30 gig, but guess what? That ***** expencive, what is it, $45 a gig? Yeah, so before you think that this is the "wave" of the future, think of it logicly. Obviously, companies want the best of both worlds, the goodies of RAND (no bootup, less power), but the cheapness of HDD (.65 a gig, common now, thats just silly). Many people say that the end of the HDD is near, and that RAM will replace it. Not true.

RAM will simply be incorperated into HDD, which will be designed to use less and less power, thereby combining the best of both worlds. The future of HARD storage is still great. Many people are just seeing how much RAM is going down, yeah, but HDD are making MORE progress then RAND, so what I can see is a small, very fast, very efficant HDD (look at the iPod, 30 gig HDD, very sturdy, pretty slim, not a lot of power, easily you could make much better drives) just strapped onto perhaps a few gigs of RAM. The RAM would be big enough to hold all data when the user is using it, AKA, act like RAM, with part of the programs installed onto the RAM chip.

This is the only tricky part, you would need to be able to install the programs on both drives, with what it needs to open the drive on the RAM chip, so at the click of a button it simply pops up, but yet have DATA stored on the HDD, which could then be used to transfer needed data on the program to RAM, which could be done in half a second. So by the time you move your mouse, the rest of the program is loaded into RAM, and ready to use.

The RAM would use the HDD like an index. It would have enough info to give to get the computer started, while calling up info from the HDD in a fraction of a second. You would not be able to tell the difference from this, or from using pure RAM. Plus, with the oh, 20 year jump HDD have on RAND, it would make the switch actually feasable soon.

[vonrochow40]

XP Reboot

It's not the boot time which addles me, it's the XP reboot which takes time, even with a "clean machine."

Slight problem with flash

- limited number of write cycles for each cell.