http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/ Engadget Comments for Seagate developing mutant hybrid SSD tech to bring costs down 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/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/
SLC's main advantage is it is fast to write. 3-10x faster than MLC, and much faster (for big writes) than NOR.

This hybrid system should be easy to implement though.]]>Nov 6th 2008 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/Nov 6th 2008 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/

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Intel has shown that MLC can have very good read speed rates (although not as high as SLC), but not when it comes to write.

So, imagine this: 63GB of MLC combined with 1GB of SLC to form a 64GB drive. All writes are performed to SLC, where they're copied to MLC internally as fast as possible. That way, you can sustain very high write speeds for a significant amount of data, and any gap in writing will give the drive time to move the data to slower MLC where it will reside.

I mean, how often do you write a file bigger than 1GB to a drive? And that 1GB is just a number I'm pulling out of my ass; 4GB or 8GB might be a better fit.]]>Nov 6th 2008 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/seagate-developing-mutant-hybrid-ssd-tech-to-bring-costs-down/
With the engineering and manufacturing expertise of drive manufacturing becoming a non-issue for SSD production, what place does a company like seagate have in the industry? Essentially anyone can now produce competitive storage systems, all it requires is the capitalization to purchase large quantities of memory (of whatever technology), will power, and high volume manufacturing expertise.

Any large asian company can do this at a price point that Seagate cannot compete with.


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