Monday, February 21, 2011

Microsoft wants its ReadyBoost recussiter

Microsoft labs trying to improve performance by using flash memory. ReadyBoost is the story all over again. At the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft had a huge hype on its ReadyBoost technology which used to speed USB certified system. Instead of using main memory, some information was stored on the Flash device.

The problem is that the gains were nonexistent, Vista was the failure that we know and Microsoft stopped talking about it. Curiously, Redmond returned to the charge. The name of the technology has changed. He now speaks of FlashStore. He made no mention of USB, but explains that this is a flash memory which is interposed between the hard disk and RAM.

It focuses on a new method of writing the NAND and an index to the RAM to optimize the operations of writing and rewriting and access to data through the system. According to researchers, the initial results were "impressive" and a DSS could replace "10 to 20 hard disks." We remain very skeptical.

The study appears to be limited for now to the world of servers on machines complex and far from the configuration average consumer. The firm does not speak of marketing.

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