Seagate Launches First Hybrid Hard Drive
Seagate Launches First Hybrid Hard Drive
Hybrid hard drives incorporating flash memory have been talked about ever since Microsoft introduced the concept at the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Last year, Samsung, the world’s largest producer of flash memory, predicted that the first hybrid drives incorporating flash memory and rotating storage would come to market in 2006, a promise that has been borne out.
This is cool. Power consumption from the Hardrive is reduced by %50. And wake up time from hibernation is reduced by %20. Now if they are smart the will load the Boot sectors and the OS in to the flash memory just before as part of the power down sequence. Imaging how hast it will boot the next time it is powered up !!
