Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND

Posted by timothy on from the asset-allocation dept.

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."

4 of 373 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA by Traciatim · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA by cptnapalm · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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?

  4. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA by Hmmm2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fumble fingers - meant to type NAS.

    Sure you did.