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Robson

Did not look closer at use in operation yet, it's way more complex there.

...sigh, but could not resist to dig into it.

What I found is Robson leverages a feature of vista to use additional memory devices. I missed this because Knut does not even mention this in his presentation. As I understand it seems to be capable to assign its virtual memory across multiple devices, i.e. on HD and a flash-device. If it is capable to read from both devices simultaneously and writes large things to HD and small things to Flash performance would benefit from high data transfer rate of HD and fast accesstimes of NAND.

Robson seems not to be a layer between RAM and HD, but in the same hierarchy level of HD, if i got it right.

The Vista-feature does work with USB-flash stick as well, and with Hybrid Disks. So what Robson seems to add to Microsofts technology is its wear-off leveling management (not sure hybrid-disks have it as well).

Bottom line, this thing offers a proposition. However its implementation would make a lot more sense in a form-factor of a memory-card with wear-leveling asic on chip. You don't even need to throw it away when Window recommends you to replace it. It is still good for storing data on it.

K.