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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. Re:Will it work? by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is kind of like saying L2 cache is pointless because you can't fit 4 gigs of memory into it. Used wisely, this 256MB could be very useful.
    Regards,
    Steve

  2. Re:Death of Harddrives? by Surt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some flash is up to about 3 million writes already. At 10 million writes the problem is effectively solved, they'll be able to warranty their flash for continuous writes for about 5 years at that point, matching the warranty on your hard drive.

    The write limit is not going to be the barrier to replacing hard drives for nearly as long as price and size are going to be.

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