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Samsung ships hybrid hard drive

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 07 March 2007 - 16:14 · 4 comments & 2071 views

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Samsung Electronics has announced it has begun shipments of its hybrid hard drive to the commercial marketplace. Samsung's MH80 series hybrid hard drive is offered in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities. Samsung said it is one of the first companies to offer a commercially available unit. The MH80 hybrid hard drive is currently shipping to select OEM customers and will soon be available in retail and commercial outlets.

Optimized to work in conjunction with Windows Vista capable notebook PCs, Samsung's MH80 is a 2.5-inch hybrid hard drive with 128 or 256 megabytes of flash memory. It combines a hard disk drive with a cache comprised of Samsung's OneNAND flash memory, and Microsoft's ReadyDrive software, offering faster boot and resume times, increased battery life and greater reliability compared to traditional magnetic media technology.

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News source: DigiTimes

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#1 vetHurmoth on 07 Mar 2007 - 16:16
Awesome, can't wait to get a notebook with one of these in it and see how it really works in the real world
#2 MadFerIt2006 on 07 Mar 2007 - 16:19
I wonder if there's any benefits to seeing a Hybrid hard drive on a regular PC. I'd like to think there could be, considering the best hard drives have only 16mb of cache.. Bumping that up to 128mb or 256mb (and heck even 1gb) should provide a big boost in speed.
#3 Aero Ultimate on 07 Mar 2007 - 17:43
Sounds pretty good - I hope it's not too expensive...
#4 +swordfish on 08 Mar 2007 - 17:01
Time to raid 0 four of these babies. Mass Cache FTW.

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