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- LMN8R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Who are you, Adrian Monk?
- briguyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I honestly expected better servers from ExtremeTech. Good God.
- Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10And thanks to spreading the story over 5 pages, we get jack to read.
- jimr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It's pretty smart, and makes it extremely easy for Joe Consumer to get a performance boost without having to bug their geeky friend to help them upgrade their RAM.
InsaneMachine, it may be easy enough for you and I to upgrade our RAM, but there are plenty of computer users who wouldn't consider it --- my mom, for instance. She can pick up a 1GB thumb drive at Wal-Mart while she's getting garden tools, just plug it in when she gets home, and start using it without even worrying about whether or not I'd answer my phone to help...
In this move, MS is clearly making it safer for us to let our parents own computers!! - TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Seeing the introduction to it doesn't exactly help.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Nine drives? What an odd number to test. Why not make it an even ten?
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4AES-128 isn't that processor intensive at the speeds that flash works at. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@grumpyrain
The bury functions are provided to do so based on the article as we aren't here to critique how well their servers stand up to bandwidth.
Use it properly and Digg will be a better place. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Adrian Monk is AWESOME!!!
- lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4geez,
http://duggmirror.com/hardware/USB_Flash_Memory_for_Windows_Vista_ReadyBoost - ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I ran RC1 on a Dothan laptop for a while, and tried Readyboost. I couldn't really tell if it was doing anything with the superfetch to speed things up, but I did notice that all of a sudden suspend and hibernate modes (which were already pretty slow on my dumpty machine) suddenly took a LOT longer. I recently reinstalled XP fresh, and having 3-second sleep/restore is a joy.
- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If it was doing that at 30 diggs, and its still doing it now.. why are people digging it?
Just to be mean to thier poor server or something? - EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"I wish Linux had this."
I dont mean to troll...but doesnt it?
I may have completly misunderstood, but from what I understand, you take a flash drive, stick it into vista, and it can make it into a cache for programs, internet, ect.
So it basically acts as swap space, or tmpfs in the ram. So whats stopping someone from mounting a flashdrive in Linux as swap space / tmpfs? I honestly dont know how you would even attempt at doing this on windows, so maybe this is news for vista...Personally I see more problems then benifits but if it works then so what :-p - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Should all be CSS and no new pages. just click next and the same URL changes content. They can change ads too if they want.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You will thank me later. ; - }
- Bodero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Summary of the new performance features in Vista here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/foreveryone/performance.mspx
Not only ReadyBoost, but the new "Sleep" state is cool too. I didn't even realize it was different on my desktop PC running RC1 until now - it seemed like it was off until I moved the mouse. REALLY cool! - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They've tested it and you will receive 10+ years or so (IIRC) of life per device.
- unluckier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can anybody explain how this actually works? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of a 2MB/sec flash device speeding up a 60MB/sec hard drive.
- marscom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know...
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30 diggs!!? - Taikun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's called adding more RAM.
This is just a temporary, convenient solution for speeding up a system that is low on resources. It's not meant to be a permanent thing. - kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work. The links just go to the server error page. So i hope they fix it soon.
- bruce89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Surely having memory that can fall out of its socket can't be a good idea.
- cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its not memory, and if it comes out of the slot the first thing that happens is windows
reverts back to the old method of file pre-fetching that it was using before when it notices that the device is no longer available. - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3compared to the speed of the SATA or any other interface, the time to encrypt is quite negligable. If it were an issue, then they could use a dedicated chip.
Marking article as LAME. The server is down already (82 diggs) and the mirror is only of the first page. Heaven forbid they actually get thousands of diggs. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No they are talking about using flash memory to boost hard drive/system caching, not simply providing extra system memory... i think...meh.
- nerd05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2>>>the cache itself is encrypted using AES-128 encryption
If your processor's sitting here doing all this work to encrypt the cache, will this really boost performance? - Phantom76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Direct link to printable (Single) page:
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=189051,00.asp - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Not really thrilled about plugging a flash stick into my box, to have it live there permanently.
Hoping some sort of internal solution can be released. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I wish Linux had this.
- MarvelingOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Maybe they ran out of funds, and are trying to fix their servers with the money saved.
- InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3"Adding system memory (RAM) is often the best way to improve your PC's performance. More memory means applications can run without needing to access the hard drive. However, upgrading memory is not always easy. You need to know what type of memory you need, purchase the memory, and open your computer to install the memory—which sometimes can invalidate your support agreement. Also, some machines have limited memory expansion capabilities, preventing you from adding RAM even if you are willing to do so."
RAM is so hard to upgrade, M$ knows best. /sarcasm - CoolSilver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Boooo.
- ialan2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0but what about wear leveling?
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3So basically, we're going to need a 512mb video card, 4gb ram, dual 3ghz dual core processors, and 30 usb flash drives daisy chained to each other to run windows vista. rad.
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