Many, us including, consider Solid State Drives the future of storage and the last mechanical part of computers is moving closer to a meeting with the dodo. Considering this it is always nice to know that the biggest software developer we have today is supportive of this. In its blog “Engineering Windows” it has revealed how the coming operating system Windows 7 will handle SSDs.
There you can read that Windows 7 will recognize an SSD and turn off defragmentation, Superfetch and Readyboost tools automatically, and if the SSD is considered fast enough also pre-fetch.
“This post looks at the way we have tuned Windows 7 to the current generation of SSDs. This is a rapidly moving area and we expect that there will continue to be ways we will tune Windows and we also expect the technology to continue to evolve, perhaps introducing new tradeoffs or challenging other underlying assumptions.”
Several companies, with OCZ in the lead, have complained about today’s operating systems and how they deal with Solid State Drives. Even if Windows 7 will hardly be a revolution for SSDs but it still looks like Microsoft will make the use of Solid State Drives a lot more pleasant with the next operating system, which could tip the scales for some.
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More in Microsoft’s blog.
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