Read Only OS?

OK, now see this new possibility.

OS Piracy, Virus attack, System crash ...............

What if we could find a creative solution to tackle this?

Instead of shipping in DVDs and CDs the next gen OS can be shipped as a fast read-only hard disk pre-written with the Genuine OS (Hard OS) which cannot be formatted or overwritten except by an upgrade similar to a firmware upgrade.

All the user settings and installed software will be stored as a part of separate hard disk or a part of the same disk which is writable.

This move will help to kill OS piracy as it cannot be reinstalled. In fact, user never needs to reinstall the OS for any reasons whatsoever. If something goes wrong, just format the writable part of the disk and you're done! That too in a few seconds! You get fresh new OS back without any technical hassles.

Upgrades? Just return the old Hard OS for new one.
Licencing will not exist at all as you pay directly for each Hard OS you purchase.

Customers can be attracted to buy Hard OS by pricing them 60-70% of the Soft OS.

Idea derived from Linux Live CDs concept.

Ideas Click!

Thanks to
Savalo, Niketh.

Efficient use of SSD and traditional HDD.

We all know that SSDs (Solid State Disks) are very fast and are hence the norm for the future.

We also know that our traditional HDDs (Hard disk drives) offer a lot of storage space at a price 10-15% that of SSDs.

General customers are given two options by laptop/desktop manufacturers.

1. Get a fast disk (SSD) with low storage.

2. Sacrifice that speed to get Terabytes of Storage.

What if we can achieve both?

Speed is required only for things like OS files and the Program Files which hardly takes about 20-30 Gigabytes.

We can use a 32 GB SSD (or whatever is suitable for us) to install our OS and Programs.

To store our documents and downloads and all those stuff we can use the luxuries of a massive storage offered by our traditional Hard Disks in Gigabytes and Terabytes at a drastically low rates.

Storage + Speed = Smart!

Ideas Click!

Thanks to

Varun, Niketh, Savalo.