On Jun 21, 2006, at 11:05, Anton B. Rang wrote:
My guess from reading between the lines of the Samsung/Microsoft
press release is that there is a mechanism for the operating system
to "pin" particular blocks into the cache (e.g. to speed boot) and
the rest of the cache is used for write
Anton B. Rang wrote:
Actually, while Seagate's little white paper doesn't explicitly say so, the
FLASH is used for a write cache and that provides one of the major benefits:
Writes to the disk rarely need to spin up the motor. Probably 90+% of all
writes to disk will fit into the cache in a t
Actually, while Seagate's little white paper doesn't explicitly say so, the
FLASH is used for a write cache and that provides one of the major benefits:
Writes to the disk rarely need to spin up the motor. Probably 90+% of all
writes to disk will fit into the cache in a typical laptop environmen
