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Samsung offers 4GB flash drive for Microsoft Vista

Ready Boost for ready boots
By INQUIRER staff
Wed Jul 26 2006, 10:19
MIGHTY KOREAN CHAEBOL Samsung said it will introduce a 4GB solid state drive which will act as a high speed NAND flash cache for machines running Microsoft Vista.

The device is compatible with Windows Ready Boost which, Samsung said, is a feature of the OS that uses flash memory to improve the speed of systems.

alt='ssd'Flash marketing director Don Barnetson said that caching HDD data using its drive and Vista will make working with a PC "lightning fast". A bold claim, considering the speed of lightning.

What Ready Boost purports to do is to populate the flash drive with data by readying favourite apps and data in the background. A traditional HDD is limited to serving 100 to 200 requests a second, but Samsung claims its thing will manage to service 5,000 requests a second. It can be connected to a mobo using the ATA port and "Ready Boost" compresses all data. Samsung gave no indication of what the drive will cost. µ

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