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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. Re:Hmm by PalmKiller · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found it, it was samsung over a year ago... http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/17/78429_HNhybriddrive_1.html?DISK-BASED%20BACKUP%20APPLIANCES

  2. Re:Obligatory by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, you have: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940846.aspx (it's the first thing I do on a new installation of Windows)

  3. Like the Transistorized Vacuum Tube Radios? by Cliff+Stoll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Around 1956, electronics makers began selling hybrid radios with both vacuum tubes and transistors. Emerson's vest-pocket portable model 843 used tubes in the rf stages and a pair of plug-in transistors for audio output. A 6 volt battery lit up the tubes and transistors, while a 67 volt battery kept the tubes' electrons jumping from cathodes to plates.

    From Emerson's adverts: "Transistors are so tiny they must be seen to be believed. Transistors are so sturdy they won't break... They will last for life!" and give "greater power without distortion - full reproduction of voice and instruments, balanced tone quality, and greater power output with less distortion, not to mention low battery drain"

    What other mixed hybrids have came along? Was there ever a hybrid horse and car?