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
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
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
