An interesting article on the new generation of harddrives. While it goes to some length regarding operating systems using these drives, it doesn't deal with older programs and data.
Perhaps somebody more technically aware than me can explain whether this means we need to upgrade all our drives or just the one the operating system runs on.
Posted by freda kraus on March 9, 2010 at 12:38 PM
To me it looks like that are saying that when we upgrade a HD and are still running XP that it will be a tad slower than it would run on a newer version OS. But XP will still work with a newer version HD.
I interpreted the article in the same way Freda did. I suppose it boils down to whether or not one can live with the performance hit if XP is the OS. If we do have XP boxes and an HD crashes, we may be stuck with a performance hit until the box can replaced.
Most likely, those of us who still have XP-based boxes will be upgrading to new achines with Win7 64 bit any way.
Now that it is clear that Windows 7 actually works, it won't be long before MS stops supporting XP altogether, if they haven't already. By the time this becomes a factor, it probably won't effect too many people.
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3 repliesAn interesting article on the new generation of harddrives. While it goes to some length regarding operating systems using these drives, it doesn't deal with older programs and data.
Perhaps somebody more technically aware than me can explain whether this means we need to upgrade all our drives or just the one the operating system runs on.
Most likely, those of us who still have XP-based boxes will be upgrading to new achines with Win7 64 bit any way.
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