Windows Vista boot times

[liqnit]

Windows Vista will give the NAND Flash market a big kick when it ships, Samsung has claimed, thanks to technology integrated into the new Microsoft operating system that will allow USB Flash drives to expand a PC's main memory bank, along with support for Flash caches in hard drives to accelerate boot times.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/14/windows_vista_flash_booster_tech/

[XJnine]

So would the flash memory permanently hold this data or would it just be used as extra memory during the boot process. I'm not sure I understood from the article. According to the article it looks like the system will just use the flash memory to put files during the boot process. To me this doesn't make sense and it seems like it would slow the boot time since flash memory is significantly slower than system RAM.

I'm guessing I'm wrong though since they wouldn't be adding this feature and saying it would speed up boot times if it didn't. I guess my next concern would be what would happen if it's constantly storing boot info and you remove the flash drive before boot time.

Looking forward to learning more about this. It could be a really interesting feature. I know I'd buy a 1gig flash drive to hold boot info if it would speed up things on the scale of flash memory vs hard drive time.

[liqnit]

i think they should make it optional if the system find a flash boot the start from otherwise go with standard HD.
and fall into a blue screen :wink: