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George Macdonald
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      22nd Nov 2005
I'm sure you've all read about this:
http://www.reed-electronics.com/elec...CA6285751.html. My
bet is that Intel has something cooking with their "Robson technology"
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123053,00.asp for fast boot-up,
which it seems might appear in notebooks first. Since this NAND flash is
limited in size it has to be a semi-permanent cache to the hard disk files
so I'm wondering what they store there and how they decide? I don't see
how they implement it without some specific action programmed into the OS

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Yousuf Khan
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      22nd Nov 2005
George Macdonald wrote:
> I'm sure you've all read about this:
> http://www.reed-electronics.com/elec...CA6285751.html. My
> bet is that Intel has something cooking with their "Robson technology"
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123053,00.asp for fast boot-up,
> which it seems might appear in notebooks first. Since this NAND flash is
> limited in size it has to be a semi-permanent cache to the hard disk files
> so I'm wondering what they store there and how they decide? I don't see
> how they implement it without some specific action programmed into the OS
>


How exactly is NAND flash supposed to be faster than hard disk? I
understood its bandwidth is less than most hard disks? However, I'm sure
it's latency is much better.

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hackbox.info
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      25th Nov 2005
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:07 +0100, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> How exactly is NAND flash supposed to be faster than hard disk? I
> understood its bandwidth is less than most hard disks? However, I'm sure
> it's latency is much better.


multi channel I/O, kinda like a raid perfect solution - fast transfer
and small latency

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Yousuf Khan
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      25th Nov 2005
hackbox.info wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:07 +0100, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> How exactly is NAND flash supposed to be faster than hard disk? I
>> understood its bandwidth is less than most hard disks? However, I'm
>> sure it's latency is much better.

>
>
> multi channel I/O, kinda like a raid perfect solution - fast
> transfer and small latency
>


Yeah, didn't think of that.

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      25th Nov 2005
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:24:19 +0100, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> hackbox.info wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:07 +0100, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> How exactly is NAND flash supposed to be faster than hard disk? I
>>> understood its bandwidth is less than most hard disks? However, I'm
>>> sure it's latency is much better.

>> multi channel I/O, kinda like a raid perfect solution - fast
>> transfer and small latency
>>

>
> Yeah, didn't think of that.


judging by the usb flash disk speeds no one did until recently

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