HyDrive

[LunarMist]

So now we have another complication, HyDrive. It will make upgrading nigh impossible. :flower:

 

[sechs]

This actually looks like a useful thing for portable devices, which seems to be exactly what it's aimed at. Might be nice as a basic storage device in an HTPC.

 

[BingBangBop]

I'm sorry, but how is that any different than any other modular bay system for a notebook and as such I don't see it as a game changer. They've had modular bay systems for notebooks since the very first notebooks.

 

[LunarMist]

The notebooks will only have the one place for this device - no place for a separate hard drive. :drinka:

 

[CougTek]

The notebooks will only have the one place for this device - no place for a separate hard drive. :drinka:

Unrelated, but are you Mexican? The above gives the impression that English isn't your first language.

 

[LunarMist]

Very funny. I am not doing well and not writing as clearly as possible. :elephant:

 

[BingBangBop]

What makes you think that these bays prevent the notebook that use them from having a normal internal notebook drive? It would seem very peculiar, to me, that Windows would keep on running for long if you needed to remove the only hard drive to watch a Blue-ray or CD-ROM movie. At the very minimum there would be a lot of bay swapping every time the HD was needed and wouldn't that be rather disruptive to watching your movie. Copying data from the CD-ROM/Blue-Ray to your HD would be a nightmare because buffers are generally not that big.

 

[MaxBurn]

I don't like the idea in combining the optical and the HDD, optical drives fail all the time.

 

[LunarMist]

What makes you think that these bays prevent the notebook that use them from having a normal internal notebook drive? It would seem very peculiar, to me, that Windows would keep on running for long if you needed to remove the only hard drive to watch a Blue-ray or CD-ROM movie. At the very minimum there would be a lot of bay swapping every time the HD was needed and wouldn't that be rather disruptive to watching your movie. Copying data from the CD-ROM/Blue-Ray to your HD would be a nightmare because buffers are generally not that big.

One could assume that the integrated devices share the bus reasonably well. :thumbright:

 

[sechs]

I don't like the idea in combining the optical and the HDD, optical drives fail all the time.

I hardly use my optical drives.

I haven't experienced an optical drive failure, either personally or professionally, since the 52x days, when we were ruining drives by shattering disks in them.

 

[LunarMist]

I've seen broken optical drives in notebooks. They are rather flimsy.