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Seagate Releases Hybrid Hard Drive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the either-the-best-or-worst-of-both-worlds dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us Seagate has released a new hybrid hard drive. This new drive adds the speed of a solid state drive to the conventional hard drive. Originally designed for laptops this new drive comes in 80, 120, and 160 GB flavors and features 256MB of flash memory.

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  1. Hybrid Irony by Mingco · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's ironic that hybrid cars save energy by spinning a platter and hybrid hard drives save energy by not spinning a platter. It's like blowing on your coffee to cool it and blowing on your hands on a brisk day to warm them. If we could just hook these devices up in round-robin, we'd have a perpetual energy machine!

  2. Re: Samsung not first to ship by andersa · · Score: 4, Funny

    From TFA:

    hybrid notebook disc drives that combine disc storage with flash memory to deliver ultra power efficiency, faster boot-ups and greater reliability for the exploding laptop PC market.

    I am a bit surprised to find, that there is a market for exploding laptops..

  3. Re:These drives are great... but, by Dirk+the+Daring · · Score: 3, Funny
    If they make it at the same plant my 4 DOA drives came from [slashdot.org], all I can say is "etter you than me."

    You might want to check out your new drive out-- It seems to have some data loss.