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Seagate Announces First Hybrid Hard Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the closer-to-instant-gratification dept.

writertype writes "Today, Seagate announced about a dozen new products, including its first hybrid laptop hard drive that includes a 256-Mbyte flash chip to save power and speed up the time a notebook recovers from hibernation. Interestingly, the new Momentus 5400 PSD has also exceeded earlier estimates of hybrid hard-drive performance, which said that such drives would add an extra hour to the typical battery life of a notebook PC."

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  1. Tax deduction? by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will these qualify me for a tax deduction?

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    1. Re:Tax deduction? by the+jalapeno · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now I can park the heads for free!

    2. Re:Tax deduction? by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

      And I thought the first lame joke would be about car pool lanes. Terribly Californiacentric of me.

  2. Yes, but how many LOC? by hoggoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Seagate's pushbutton drive is capable of storing all of the following, combined: a 25-DVD movie collection, 15,000-song music collection, 15,00-photo image library, 50-hours worth of video, and 50 computer games, with 300GB left over

    Bah, these measurements tell me nothing.
    How many Libraries Of Congress can I store on this thing?! That's what I need to know!

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  3. Re:Mbytes? by hoggoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    > How about Megabs?

    Are those 6 minute MegaAbs?

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  4. Old objects of lust by also-rr · · Score: 5, Funny

    This brings back a memory of a very, very, very long time ago when I was fortunate enough to get to touch a computer that had its root filesystem on a 250mb solid state disk, so that it only had to touch the much slower mechanical drives infrequently. For it's day the thing was a monster with speed that made my own systems seem inadequate in every way. So what did we do with all of that raw, untamed power? Played nethack.

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  5. Re:Mbytes? by OneoFamillion · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Are those 6 minute MegaAbs?

    No, not six minutes, SEVEN! No one could get a good workout in just six minutes, duh!

    Hmm... MegaBS = 1000^2 people bullshitted? Could come in handy with all these RIAA topics.