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The Benefits of Hybrid Drives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-both-worlds dept.

feminazi writes "Flash memory is being integrated with the hard disk by Seagate and Samsung and onto the motherboard by Intel. Potential benefits: faster read/write performance; fewer crashes; improved battery life; faster boot time; lower heat generation; decreased energy-consumption. Vista's ReadyDrive will use the hybrid system first for laptops and probably for desktops down the road. The heat and power issues may also make it attractive in server environments."

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  1. Re:A good idea by Heembo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    NYET, Flash memory has a much reduced shelf-life compared to hard-drived in terms of maximum writes before it degrades, not to mention hard drives are way cheaper than flash. Good old hard drives are much more reliable in the long term and cheaper, at least for now...

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  2. Past Its Time by distantbody · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think that this would have been a much relavant product if it was released 10 years ago, when flash memory was much harder to come by. But I would say we're less than one upgrade cycle away from completely solid state drives anyway, the ones that several manufacturers have been showing of over the past year and due very soon. I say don't bother with this concept that is a decade too late and soon to be obselete anyway. Why Linux sucks #42104: [SHIFT] + ["] ! = "