Seagate Releases Hybrid Hard Drive

[safan80]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/1735209&threshold=-1

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

[RPGWiZaRD]

Wonder what the price will be though.

safan80> confess you kept refresh spamming only to get news posted b4 any1 else. :p:

[XS Janus]

Good news, maybe we will finally se them working around on the testbeds soon and maybe they will even even be worth as an intermediate upgrade point before SSD.

[dinos22]

excellent news
about friggin time they start with this

[3NZ0]

Weird, these drives have been in stock at OcUK for quite some time.

[higgins]

Alright, cool, so how are these drives working?

[Soulburner]

Only 256mb?

Still waiting then.

[ExodusC]

I was hoping for a gig or two of flash memory. Perhaps even up to 4GB, so the entire page file or swap partition could be put on it.

[xenolith]

So does the 256MBs behave basically as hard drive cache?

[NapalmV5]

http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/TP556_MomentusPSD_Sep06.pdf

5400rpm? :rofl:

the drive is so slow, the pdf doesnt even state performance..

anyone have more info on performance?


time to bust some 15k sas drives

[KoHaN69]

"160 GB and 256MB of flash memory" is a freaking joke.

[Xenogias]

I'll reserve judgment until benchmarks become available. Speaking of which I can't find any reviews. Are these things out?

[Larry]

Well there listed as pre order on ocuk heres a link

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?&groupid=701&catid=14&sortby=nameAsc&subid=&mfrid=43&page=4#prodlist

[CandymanCan]

You know when i read the title of this thread and saw the word hybrid harddrive, my first thought was hybrid as in car hybrid, i was like hmm lol

[alfaunits]

Guys, it's a notebook, not desktop drive.

[dinos22]

http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/TP556_MomentusPSD_Sep06.pdf

5400rpm? :rofl:

the drive is so slow, the pdf doesnt even state performance..

anyone have more info on performance?


time to bust some 15k sas drives

this is a NOTEBOOK hard drive

[Levish]

waiting for 1GB+ cache drives

[kuhla]

I want my 500GB 7200.11 (ST3500320AS ) already dammit!! Get it to retail before you jump back in the R&D labs!! :mad:

info - http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/barracuda_hard_drives/barracuda_7200.11/

[iddqd]

I've got a 32gb samsung SSD here that doesn't quite work. Meh.

[alfaunits]

We're talking about stepping forward - Samsung SSD is a step backward :D

[The_Beast]

Only 256mb?

:down:

that isn't alot