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To: FJB who wrote (19001)	5/19/2006 3:30:01 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 25522

Right now, I'm not real sure I need anything beyond XP? If that much.

To: FJB who wrote (19001)	5/19/2006 5:02:19 PM
From: etchmeister	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

Samsung NAND flash hybrid hard drive to be rolled out with Windows Vista Printer friendly Related stories Comments Email to a friend Latest news Related topic Hot systems Press release; Michael McManus, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 18 May 2006] Samsung Electronics will exhibit a commercial prototype of a Hybrid Hard Disk (HHD), a next-generation hard drive for notebooks and PCs that integrates NAND flash memory with rotating magnetic storage. The HHD will be exhibited with two cache densities, 128MB and 256MB, at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle from May 23-24, 2006. According to Jon Kang, senior vice president, technical marketing group, Samsung Semiconductor, the Samsung HHD will be able to extend the battery life for notebooks while improving boot and resume performance. With an HHD, consumers receive a system that boots or resumes up to twice as fast as conventional HDDs, lasts 20-30 minutes longer on battery and is up to five times more reliable, Samsung stated. The HHD is also less susceptible to damage from jarring or being dropped since it is idle most of the time. Every time the cache is filled, the rotating drive spins to "flush out" or transfer data from the cache, spinning only a few seconds every 10-20 minutes. The Samsung HHD architecture uses the memory maker’s OneNAND as cache, which has 108MB/s read and 18 MB/s write data-rates. The functionality of the HHD is automated by the HDD SoC which supports 3.0G Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for SATA drives and features a OneNAND interface. The HHD saves between eight and 25 seconds of boot-up time and extends battery life by about 8-10 percent depending on the model of computer. Samsung will sample its HHD with customers beginning next quarter and it will ship in large quantities by January, in conjunction with the Windows Vista rollout. Intel is also planning to introduce its hybrid PC storage solution, called Robson cache technology, with its next-generation Centrino platform, codenamed Santa Rosa, in 2007. This new cache technology, which allows for the storage of some data on NAND flash instead of on the hard disk drive (HDD), can speed up the boot up time for the operating system as well as applications, according to Intel The new cache technology reportedly could add an additional 30 minutes to battery life to notebook PCs.