Yet another D630 question. Thank for your help so far.

Does the Dell Latitude D630 have Intel Turbo Memory also known as hybrid hard drive and I think it has several other names. The Dell site mentions it once here:
"Innovative Design
Advanced options and new levels of customization
* The latest Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo processors, with Intel integrated graphics for optimal battery life.
* Genuine Windows Vista™ or
Genuine Windows® XP operating systems
* Performance hard-drive options including 7200 RPM, Hybrid hard drive
* Choice of Direct Deploy Services to simplify image management and customization
* Energy-efficient designs that meet or exceed the worldwide mutually recognized Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR® Standard"

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d630?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04

But the Dell site does not mention it any where else. Does the Dell Latitude D630 have an Intel Turbo memory? If it does have one, how big is it?

Thanks

 

Hybrid hard drive is not turbo memory, but it's similar. HHD is a hard drive with a flash cache built into the HD unit. A hard drive controller chip decides what to cache. Turbo memory is a separate PCIe card with flash, and the OS decides what to cache there.

As for whether the D630 has it, I haven't seen it offered with either last I checked. I assume they'll be adding them as options in the future. You can bet it will be clear on the config page when they do, since they'll want to charge extra for those options.

Edit: Check this out: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=341-4900&cs=19&c=us&l=en
"Buffer DRAM Size: 8 MB; OneNAND Flash: 256 MB"

 

Does the Lenovo Thinkpad T61 have a Hybrid Hard Drive or just an Intel Turbo Memory 1GB.

 

Not sure if it's offered now; you can check their config page. When they are more widely available, you'll be able to just buy an HHD at newegg (if you can't already) and just pop it into any laptop you want. At least that's my understanding. I don't think the rest of the computer has to know anything about it.

With Turbo Memory, the computer does have to be designed with a slot for the TM card, but with HHD, I think you can just put an HHD in anything.

 

Will a solid state hard drive be faster than a laptop with a hybrid hard drive and turbo memory?

 

Generally, yes. I don't know if some HDs might actually have slightly faster transfer speeds than some SSDs... but the SSDs' access times are practically zero, where with an HD solution, you can't cache everything, and HD access times are VERY slow compared to flash.

Besides being generally faster, SSD is also better than any HD in terms of reliability, durability, and power consumption. If flash storage were as cheap per gigabyte as HD storage, I don't think anyone would bother making HDs anymore.

 

Obviously. Too bad it's not eh?