Difference between fast Drive Technology (Robson), ready boost and ready drive

Robson

Fast drive: The acceleration system reduces power consumption. The laptop will support a technology called FRMT (formerly called Robson), which is named intel fast drive in Chinese. A PCI-E interface expansion card, with the support of the system, can provide readyboost and readydrive functions, these functions will be directly on the system startup, sleep, InstallationProgram, Copying files, loading games, and other disk operations. Official materials show that the fast drive can increase the software startup and running speed by one time, speed up by 20%, and reduce the number of hard disk revolutions to save power consumption.

In the past, the price structure of the company is usually composed of three major components: CPU, chipset, and wireless module. From the perspective of this generation, if the CPU and chipset architecture are not particularly surprising, the flash memory module officially named "Fast disk" is the biggest highlight. Like wireless modules, fast drive is also a module connected to the motherboard through the PCI-E interface, its role is mainly to use large-capacity FLASH memory as a buffer, part of the improvement of the system disk performance and overall performance, editors have always believed that the flash drive technology is a new improvement of the third-level caching technology on the motherboard N years ago.

Now, Intel does not seem to list the fast drive module separately, so that it is tied together with the other three parts to become the fourth largest component of the Chinese version. At present, the fast drive is still an optional feature extension module of the Chinese version. It consists of two parts: the chip and the software. The chip is a diamond Lake ASIC controller with an encapsulation area of 8mm x 8mm. The software driver is provided by Intel matrix Storage Management 7.0, matrix Storage Management 7.0 is available in Intel 965 series chipset. In other words, only the Intel 965-chip-based intel-based-inch notebook can enjoy the fast drive technology.

At present, the fast drive has two versions: m and 1g. If you use 1g fast drive, you can implement the readyboost function and readydriver function at the same time. If you use a m fast drive, you can only implement the readyboost function.

Ready boost

Hardware Products are constantly being updated, and the next-generation operating system Windows Vista is getting closer and closer to us. Currently, various Vista system test version installation sources and evaluation reports can be easily found, people are looking forward to Vista. The new generation of Vista has added many new features, one of which is Windows readyboost.

Readyboost is one of the many innovative features of Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. It is the first operating system to diversify and extend memory resource allocation. In the past, to expand and upgrade the system memory, you must split the computer shell and even have professional hardware concepts, such as motherboard memory slots and compatibility, it is also a great challenge for beginners who want to upgrade on their own. The import of readyboost technology makes it easy to expand the memory resources of the operating system. The readyboost function can use the USB 2.0 flash memory to accelerate the performance of the Vista PC and use the space of the USB memory as the system memory. Generally, it is not difficult to add Ram to a desktop PC. You only need to upgrade and increase the memory. For most laptops, system memory needs to be expanded due to various conditions and requirements. Readyboost allows you to improve system performance by inserting USB flash memory and slightly configuring it! Microsoft also pointed out that research shows that the use of readyboost can give flash memory a 10-year or more service life.

Of course, the prerequisite for using readyboost is that USB flash memory must meet certain performance and capacity requirements: at least 2.5 Mb/s transmission, 4 K random read speed, 1.75 Mbit/s transmission, K random write speed; 64 MB to 8 GB free space; total capacity at least MB. This is only the basic parameter officially provided by Microsoft. To perfectly experience readyboost performance, you still need higher-Performance Flash for support.

Readydriver

ReadydriverThis feature is designed for readydrive and provides software support for readdrive. Readydrive is what Microsoft calls hybrid hard drive (hard drive with Internal flash components. In addition to the obvious random access speed advantage of flash memory, the biggest temptation of this hard disk is that the data stored in it is "ready to stand"-because for flash memory, there is no need to start the head, you do not have to wait for the head to rotate to the proper position.

HybirdHard Disk boot, sleep, and sleep are faster, with lower power consumption. When the Operating System reads and writes the cache, the drive itself can temporarily stop working without consuming any power. When you resume from sleep to running, the laptop can immediately read data from the cache, instead of waiting for the drive head to start as usual. The readeydriver function implemented by flash memory is similar to the principle of hybird hard disk, the difference is that the mini PCI-E bus and the system exchange data, and hybird hard disk still through the SATA interface and the system for data exchange.

ready boost and ready drive are both technologies that can improve system performance on Windows Vista. Ready boost allows users to use flash to increase the startup speed of Windows systems. Currently, the USB flash drive can use this technology. Ready drive is a group of commands used by Windows Vista to manage the content stored on flash memory. Currently, hybrid hard disks (hard disks with Flash components integrated) can use this technology. The fast drive (Robson) technology is Intel's unique technology, interface for the flash memory module of the PCI-E with Intel developed driver, you can) it is seamlessly integrated with the hardware platform and Windows Vista, and supports both ready boost and ready drive on a single device. Both U-disk and hybrid hard drive cannot support both technologies.