http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/ Engadget Comments for Samsung and Microsoft introduce hybrid hard drive (HHD) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/
So now flash is the new cartidge.

Makes sense to me.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/
1Gb is around 1,000MB not 128.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/
They're looking for a hard drive that only spins when you boot the OS and load your apps, and is otherwise just storing stuff on the drive's chip. Less power, less heat, less fan, etc.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/
http://www.micron.com/products/nand/massstorage/
100,000 program-erase cycles

Use the drive for anything that write to disk alot: pagefile, registry, browser cache and temp files etc, I would expect the flash part would die within two months. Of course when the flash dies the drive firmware can fallback to pure disk mode.
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Wowww. I'm terrified already.
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*sigh* I really wish HDD would go away altogether..... 500GB of instant read/write memory!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/
Alternatively, why not just make the OS flash RAM based so that you can have something pretty close to instant-on. I love how quickly xbox is able to boot up, it would be nice to see a desktop be able to do that.
]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Difference between large disk drive cache and hybrid hard drive could be in firmware: different I/O management plus larger buffer can result in longer inactivity periods for physical drive in way absolutely transparent for operating system, regardless if OS has any support for power management.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/of course is CO$T!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/25/samsung-and-microsoft-introduce-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd/
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5683836.html
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