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and LG plan Flash Laptops 197  Posted by CmdrTaco from the what-
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Laptops  Comments Filter:   • Adding more ram for a disk cache
is a simpler (and often lower power) solution to speed up disk
activity. Writing to flash takes power, leaving the flash on [so
you can access it] takes power. But you can't use flash as
random access memory.      Putting the laptop in suspend mode
throughout the day (instead of hibernate or off) can also
lighten the load on the disk/battery. Bonus points would be for
flushing the read cache, compressing the in use memory and
turning off as many memory banks as possible during suspend. (I
know that's not trivial hence the bonus points).    • by samael
(12612) * <> on Friday March 09, 2007 @11:40AM (#18290182)
Homepage     The point is that it can turn off the hard drive
while you're working away, until the flash cache is full, and
then turn it on long enough to dump