XP times up?

[tintin40]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm

 

[barry2017]

It's a bit of a non-issue, really. XP will have vanished before the drives are ubiquitous.

 

[cyfa2809]

hmm so what about windows 98?????

 

[barry2017]

Windows 98 is dead.

There are no more updates, and almost no hardware support from manufacturers.

If you've been using the same computer since 1998, it owes you nothing.

 

[Ziggy]

To help Windows XP cope, advanced format drives will be able to pretend they still use sectors 512 bytes in size.
When reading data from a drive this emulation will go unnoticed. However, said Mr Burks, in some situations writing data could hit performance.
In some cases the drive will take two steps to write data rather than one and introduce a delay of about 5 milliseconds.
"All other things being equal you will have a noticeable hard drive reduction in performance," said Mr Burks, adding that, in some circumstances, it could make a drive 10% slower.

The kind of person who's still using XP when you can no longer get compatible drives (if that ever happens) is unlikely to care about a potential "up to 10%" performance hit.

XP will be around for a long time yet - big businesses are going to need a big reason to drop it!

 

[Easy_Rider]

To help Windows XP cope, advanced format drives will be able to pretend they still use sectors 512 bytes in size.
When reading data from a drive this emulation will go unnoticed. However, said Mr Burks, in some situations writing data could hit performance.
In some cases the drive will take two steps to write data rather than one and introduce a delay of about 5 milliseconds.
"All other things being equal you will have a noticeable hard drive reduction in performance," said Mr Burks, adding that, in some circumstances, it could make a drive 10% slower.

The kind of person who's still using XP when you can no longer get compatible drives (if that ever happens) is unlikely to care about a potential "up to 10%" performance hit.

XP will be around for a long time yet - big businesses are going to need a big reason to drop it!

Yeah i agree with that, NT4 was around for a long time too.

 

[cyfa2809]

Windows 98 is dead.

There are no more updates, and almost no hardware support from manufacturers.

If you've been using the same computer since 1998, it owes you nothing.

was just a thought im on xp

 

[barry2017]

was just a thought im on xp

It would shock you how many older people still use Windows 98. When people ask for repairs on them, I find them a secondhand XP box though. Bless 'em.

 

[cyfa2809]

was just a thought im on xp

It would shock you how many older people still use Windows 98. When people ask for repairs on them, I find them a secondhand XP box though. Bless 'em.

NO WAY!!! i was actually thinking of 2000 too so thats even worse! thats crazy! :shock:

 

[dyna-ti]

Games run best on XP