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Samsung HDD Merges Flash, Conventional Storage

Posted by timothy on from the layering-the-layers dept.

geekboxjockey points "This is a link to a story about a hybrid hard-drive technology from Samsung that involves the use of flash memory and conventional storage. A very interesting idea that could provide noticeable energy useage/speed improvements for HDD-based portable devices."

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  1. Nah... by ArbiterOne · · Score: 3, Funny

    It won't really take off unless they release an amusing Flash video involving dancing flash memory-HDD pairs singing about the joys of dual storage.

  2. Hardvaporware ? by alexhs · · Score: 3, Funny

    > The Hybrid Hard Drive, developed by Samsung and Microsoft, is meant for mobile PCs running Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system.

    So the other hard drive manufacturers will have a loooong time to do the same...

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  3. Déjà entendu ? by alexhs · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Let's suppose you had 10GB of primary memory--probably everything that you do could fit in memory," Allchin (Microsoft Windows chief) said.

    10 GiB ought to be enough for everyone...

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  4. Re:Suppose you had 10GB of primary memory... by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did get a replacement on my own. Hence the $90 for the 40GB drive...

    The history went

    1. Drive makes clicking noises
    2. Tom sends it to Futureshop to get serviced
    3. 56 days later I get laptop back
    4. Laptop was not fixed, still clicks
    5. Several months later it totally dies
    6. Tom goes to local shop and buys replacement drive for $90.

    Essentially the stores/manufacturers ALREADY rape us seven ways from sunday. This combo drive is just another way to potentially lock people down.

    Tom

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  5. Not Nuff by eSims · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Let's suppose you had 10GB of primary memory--probably everything that you do could fit in memory," Allchin said.

    Yeah, everything except Longhorn :-p

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  6. Re:History repeats itself... by alexhs · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Yeah, and you are repeating a poster from 5 minutes ago.

    Haaa, but... there is a difference !
    He is getting an insightful mod while I'm getting a funny !

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