Vista and Solid State Hard Drives Don’t Play Friendly

August 15th, 2008

Hard DriveFrom the article: “Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid-state disk[s].” So instead of asking Microsoft to change Windows, the SSD manufacturers are modifying their drive controllers to “compensate for Vista shortfalls.”

Link: http://news.cnet.com/…
(via Slashdot)

Update: Ars Technica has an update on this topic. Samsung is taking action to help resolve the problem.

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