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> operating systems need to support SSD's as a cache for the main hard drive rather than as a hard drive themselves No need to update your OS if you buy the Se
by jbarham 16y ago
> operating systems need to support SSD's as a cache for the main hard drive rather than as a hard drive themselves
No need to update your OS if you buy the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid SSD/platter drive (now $110 for 500 GB on Amazon) as the drive will do this itself for any OS. The SSD part of the drive acts as a transparent read-through cache. I bought this for my Thinkpad and am very happy w/ the performance.
- metageek 16y agoPersonally, that's the approach I'd prefer, because then all my data is on the drive, which I can take out of the system when the power supply fails, to recover my data. If the OS has silently migrated some of my data onto an invisible chunk of flash, I can't recover without that flash. (If the OS is just using the flash as a cache, OK, but why? It's slower and more expensive than RAM.)