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Microsoft adds SSD to the Windows 7 recipe
MICROSOFT IS LOOKING to implement a change people can believe in when it comes to the way Solid State Drives (SSDs) work with Windows software, and will be discussing how at its upcoming Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week.
The performance of SSDs under The Vole’s Windows XP and Vista operating systems has been shabby to say the least but the Redmond Giant plans to turn the tables when Windows 7 hits the market.
Mighty-Soft plans to use its WinHEC2008, which kicks off on Wednesday, to discuss "Windows 7 Enhancements for Solid-State Drives," amongst other things. In the abstract for the session, the Vole notes “PC systems that have solid-state drives are shipping in increasing volumes" and adds it plans on having "Windows enhancements that take advantage of the latest updates to standardized command sets, such as ATA."
Microsoft will also apparently devote time to talking about file system optimisations, the future of SSDs and their role in Windows. The Vole will purportedly also be discussing issues surrounding the lifetime of SSDs used in netbooks and ways to develop flash-based netbooks using Windows 7.
Analysts seem to agree that Microsoft weighing in on the issue is an important step, with Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis telling CNET, “It is pretty widely held that SSDs are unlikely to meet with much acceptance until Windows undergoes significant tuning to take advantage of all the speed that SSDs have to offer”.
Gregory Wong of Forward Insights has high hopes for Windows 7, noting it “will be able to identify a SSD uniquely. Certain ATA commands will improve the speed that solid state drives write to disk”.
Let’s hope Wong is right about that. µ
L'Inq
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If only they would stop releasing windows 32bit no idea about atom but the rest can run 64 bit. Or stop OEM's to ship a 32 bit version on 4gb or more ram machines which is so fuckign stupid and annoying. Still cant beleive 64bit support is quiet low or non excisting
Let’s hope Wong is right about that. µ

How about... 

Let’s hope Wong is wight about that. µ
SSD have big help, Sustained Data Output, NOT Hack & Cough of Standard Disc HardDrive. Platter HD can burst to near 800 mb/s, yet due to spinning time to next file, can barely maintain 170 mb/s, usually less than 100 mb/s.

SSD Plays Even, Straight thru: 270 mb/s Top, with 600+ mb/s soon enough. SSD has had some Problems, like ?Wearing Out. Some Mfgs went from SSD version 1 to new version 2. Before it gets mixed up, Micro Hard is taking active lead in setting standards. Yippie.

Maybe Micro Solid Be Better Name. 

Ask About Nahalem: Heres Inside Dupe. Nahalem Bloomiers: 3.2 ghz/s was overclocked to 5.3 ghz/s(Nitro)& Vantage numbers, Unreal: 67,000. However, it wasn't stable. at 4.7/9 ghz, its solid & vantage 35,000. Thats with one game card on X58.

Numbers Like That Scream for Faster SSD. Quickly Filling in Cache. Here trick is very large L3 cache, for Top Responsiveness.
drashek
Any news about changes to the OS to minimize the number of writes to disk? Seems to me that would be the important thing about optimizing for SSDs.