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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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