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A hybrid drive is a new type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it employs a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache data during normal use. By primarily using this large buffer for non-volatile data storage, the platters of the hard drive are at rest almost all of the time, instead of constantly spinning as they are in current hard drives. This offers numerous benefits, chief among them decreased power consumption, improved reliability, and a faster boot process.
Hybrid drives are set to be released, primarily for notebook computers, in early 2007, with Samsung introducing their first drives in January, and Seagate in the first three months. At the moment, they are only known to be fully compatible with the upcoming Windows Vista operating system; Microsoft uses the name ReadyDrive to describe the software side of this technology.
The command interface will be standardized in the new revision 8 of the ATA standard.
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Google news stories on Hybrid Drives
Wikipedia entry.
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A hybrid drive is a new type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it employs a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache data during normal use. By primarily using this large buffer for non-volatile data storage, the platters of the hard drive are at rest almost all of the time, instead of constantly spinning as they are in current hard drives. This offers numerous benefits, chief among them decreased power consumption, improved reliability, and a faster boot process.
Hybrid drives are set to be released, primarily for notebook computers, in early 2007, with Samsung introducing their first drives in January, and Seagate in the first three months. At the moment, they are only known to be fully compatible with the upcoming Windows Vista operating system; Microsoft uses the name ReadyDrive to describe the software side of this technology.
The command interface will be standardized in the new revision 8 of the ATA standard.
