Package includes: Mini PCI-e Board for laptop

The technology was publicly introduced on October 24, 2005, at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taiwan when a laptop that booted up almost immediately was demonstrated. The technology attempts to decrease hard drive usage by moving frequently accessed data over to the flash memory. Flash memory can be accessed faster than hard drives and requires less power to operate, thereby allowing laptops to operate faster while also being more power efficient.

The Turbo memory cache connects to a motherboard via a mini-PCIe interface. It supports new features available in Microsoft Windows Vista, namely ReadyBoost (a hard-drive caching solution via USB flash drives) and ReadyDrive (a hard-drive caching solution via hybrid drives). These features allow both read caching and write caching of data. Often this is implemented with a Disk Filtering Option ROM (DFOROM).

Intel® NAND Flash Memory, working with the Microsoft Windows Vista* ReadyBoost* and ReadyDrive* technologies, adds a new low-latency, non-volatile memory cache between the system memory and the hard drive. This enables fast access to critical data and applications.

• Fast application load times, hibernation and resume
• Fast overall application responsiveness
• Fast boot time
• Quick access to frequently used applications and/or files from user pinning
• Enhanced data loss protection using RAID 1, 5 and 10

U need to sacrifice a PCI-e slot (located under the laptop base), normally used for WiFi cards in order to use this gadget, i personally found out with this card installed, my shutdown time in Vista has reduced by at least 50%.