Samsung Ships Hybrid Hard Drives

writertype writes "ExtremeTech reports that Samsung has become the first company to begin shipping hybrid hard drives as discussed last fall on Slashdot. (Some photos here.) Unfortunately, there's no word yet (beyond 'soon') on when retail shipments will begin, or when (or if) 3.5-inch models will be available. Note that these hybrid drives are different than the ReadyBoost USB flash drives optimized for Vista; hybrid drives contain a smaller amount of flash, and work as a write cache for your notebook drive, extending battery life."

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Re:Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

They probaby use a SATA interface so no driver other than one for you SATA controler will be needed.

Do you know this or are you just pulling this out of your ass?

Yeah, about Vista's Superfetch caching...

[empvirus]

I used to think that it was a good idea, up until I saw it go horribly wrong on my friend's laptop. The thing bluescreened, then wiped out all partitions on his HDD, including his EXT3 linux partition, and the contents of his flashdrive were completely gone. He couldn't recover ANY of the data he lost. And last I checked, he's still having troubles with the MBR and grub. I know, this is anecdotal, but I thought at least one or two people would like to know that Microsuck still has a ways to go before their little feature is usable.