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Hybrid Drive Reduces Crash Risk |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
Samsung has started shipments of its new hybrid hard drive that
brings together magnetic and silicon storage into a single device. The
new drives promise to bring faster boot times and significant
reductions in power usage for laptop users.
Samsung is offering the new drives under the moniker MH80 Series and
will bring 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities to market. That's for the
spinning disk anyway, the memory capacities are either 128 or 256 MB.
The
drives are only going out to 'select' OEM customers at the moment, but
the company says you should start seeing them around the place straight
away.
The drive consumes 70-90 percent less power than a
traditional hard drive, which extends the battery life by 30 minutes
before a recharge is needed.
They also offer significant reliability benefits because the platters
are idle so much (up to 99 percent of the time) so the flash memory eliminates the need
for the hard disk to constantly spin whenever a computer is operating
on battery power.
As a result, the drive is much less susceptible to
shock damage, resulting in less data loss and fewer needed repairs.
Furthermore, the drive operates at a lower temperature than a regular
hard drive, reducing the likelihood of damage and hard drive failure.
The 2.5-inch drives have been optimised to work hand in hand with Microsoft's Windows Vista and feature Samsung's
ReadyBoot technology which the company claims can shave a significant
50 percent off boot and resume times when compared to traditional
magnetic drives.
Combining the high speed of the OneNAND Flash cache with the traditional high densities of magnetic
storage technology brings speed and power advantages without breaking the budget. The the best of both worlds.
As a leader in both hard drive and flash memory
technologies, Samsung brings to market a unique hybrid hard drive that
is sure to revolutionize the notebook computing experience," Albert
Kim, national sales manager, Storage Systems for Samsung Semiconductor,
Inc.
"The
MH80 hybrid hard drive provides the ideal solution for two major issues
that notebook PC users continually face: faster boot and resume
performance and extended battery life."
Samsung has already released mobile devices working exclusively off silicon storage, the cost of the Flash memory adds significantly to the cost of the device though. See our story Why Samsung Got Rid of the Hard Drive
Also read Solid State Drives Could Replace Hard Drives
www.samsung.com
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