Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND

judgecorp writes "Research from Seagate suggests that hybrid hard drives in general use are virtually as good as solid state drives if they have just 8GB of solid state memory. The research found that normal office computers, not running data-centric applications, access just 9.58GB of unique data per day. 8GB is enough to store most of that, and results in a drive which is far cheaper than an all-Flash device. Seagate is confident enough to ease off on efforts to get data off hard drives quickly, and rely on cacheing instead. It will cease production of 7200 RPM laptop drives at the end of 2013, and just make models running at 5400 RPM."

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Re:What about games

[Anonymous Coward]

I truly doubt that anyone working at EA plays their games.

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[Traciatim]

If you don't have most of your stuff stored via a library or other link on an NSA or server . . .

Wait a sec . . . How do you access all of your data at the NSA? do they offer a subscription service or something?

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[cptnapalm]

So if I stick with 5400 RPM hard drives, I get doughnuts?

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[cptnapalm]

"Back in your day to load each webpage, did they deliver each bit by abacus via horseback?"

Isn't that how YouTube does it since Google bought them?

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[Hmmm2000]

Fumble fingers - meant to type NAS.

Sure you did.

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[pushing-robot]

How do you access all of your data at the NSA? do they offer a subscription service or something?

Yes, they do!

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[ColdWetDog]

Man, Dropbox better watch out. Serious competition here.

But really, had the NSA pitched their product as a 'service', people would have fallen all over themselves to pay for it.

"Stores everything, everywhere! Never back up again!"

What's not to like?

Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA

[ackthpt]

Fumble fingers - meant to type NAS.

Sure you did.

Absolutely! Would I lie to you, Mr. Joshua J. Fortenbras of 1104 W. Finster Ave, Quimby, NJ, who works at Asset Assure Investments (formerly Dewey, Cheatham & Howe). I trust you enjoyed your bacon and gerbil omlet, for breakfast this morning.