http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
we do have slot load version too...]]>May 28th 2010 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
use it to boot the os and have the regular hdd for user accounts and media stuff.

added benefit of allowing the hdd to be temporarily moved to another machine. at least on Macs anyway]]>May 28th 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
how can i get one?]]>May 28th 2010 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
It's worth noting that Linux would also allow the easy unmounting of the hdd when not in use.

This whole concept is brilliant.]]>May 28th 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/ok flash data and disk drive check
now if they add bluray and slot loading
they got me hook, line n sinka]]>May 29th 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/And some laptops have the mini PCI slot preloaded for wireless.]]>May 27th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/O rLY?
http://geizhals.at/deutschland/?cat=hdssd&xf=257_PCIe+Mini+Card]]>May 28th 2010 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
I wish some laptops would come with a 2nd HDD bay instead of ODD's. I use optical media like once a month and would happily buy an external ODD if I needed it. But 2 HDD's (well I'd probably go a 500GB HDD and 64GB SSD or something like that) would be fuk'n awesome.]]>May 28th 2010 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/I agree though I would be happy with just about anything, like bigger battery, better CPU/GPU, extra RAM slots, more ports, thinner/lighter laptop, ect. Just remove the stupid disc drive, I hardly ever use it and I never need it when I am out and about, just to occasionally install some software or rip a CD.]]>May 28th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_27

Just get this and replace your ODD.]]>May 28th 2010 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/If you use PCIe SSDs the speed is quite slow due to smaller number of NAND flash... we uses 8 NAND flash for maximum speeds...]]>May 28th 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
And what do you do when you are on an airplane with no connectivity? Or on any of the various places you may not have a connection to the internet...]]>May 27th 2010 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/I can tell you how I do my coding, all code I am working on is synced with my CVS server back in the office and anytime I work on a project, that project always exists locally. However, if you are in a niche category wherein you work on more than 3 or 4 projects at once and they each seem to be more than 5 to 6 GB then yes maybe you need a larger hard drive but frankly, will you truly be working on your flights? Also, most long distance flights these days have in built WiFi and if your work is so crucial that you must connect then I am sure your company will not mind paying 15$ for your few hours of Internet usage.]]>May 27th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
How does this thing work... exactly?

They have my attention...]]>May 27th 2010 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
In essence, it's likely a "Slimline" DVD drive with the SSD mounted below, and packaged in a regular-sized laptop DVD-drive casing. The SSD would/could be used for prefetching/buffering of DVD video or for system caching.]]>May 27th 2010 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
The PCI is useful for many things so leave it for other stuff.
I have an SSD 30Gig for my OS in my desktop and use my Terabyte hard drive for storage.
You can now use the spinner in your laptop as a storage.

I want one NOW!!!]]>May 27th 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
yes, that is the concept what we trying to build.... You may buy laptop with HyDrive within this year....]]>May 28th 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 27th 2010 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
yes, some of OEM is thinking that too... isn't it nice? ]]>May 28th 2010 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/:D]]>May 28th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
It smiles and hi drive???]]>May 28th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
This idea will be certainly pricey than a single 32GB SSD + ODD so no cost benefit either.]]>May 28th 2010 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
it will be cheaper than sing SSD + ODD... don't worry..]]>May 28th 2010 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.insidemylaptop.com/images/Asus-Eee-901-disassembled.jpg]]>May 28th 2010 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/You can have any interface you want.
http://www.solidatum.com/showproduct.asp?lgID=EN&LID1=3&LID2=4&LID3=5&PID=15
Being faster than a X25-M isn't slow.
http://www.runcorestore.com/ProductDetail.jsp?LISTID=8000009B-1249408121Cth.jpg&GBSize=16GB-128GB
Both from my first link..]]>May 28th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
they also making Network Attached Storage too.]]>May 28th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/
However Im having a slight concern with the concept of SSD and ODD in one. Back in my early computer days I bought a new concept for my desktop that had a 3.5" floppy drive and 5.25" floppy drive in the same drive bay and housing. Now as space saving and awesome as that was at the time, if one of the drives broke, you were kinda screwed. What happens here down the line if your ODD goes out but your SSD keeps on working? ,,, See where Im going with this? Im still on board with buying a few of these but want something like a good warranty out of it :)]]>May 28th 2010 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/I'd pick up the bluray slot Hydrive in August and replace my bluray drive with it (stick it in another laptop).]]>May 28th 2010 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 28th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/(And a small wizard in it that can repair scratches. I loved that part with Matrix.)

The mystery in this drive is how they're gonna sell it.

]]>May 28th 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/It is not buffer memror it is real SSD drivs as 32GB and 64GB which you can install OS and applicaiton.

The drive will not be sold at retails but PC OEMS. You can get Desktp or notebook with HyDrive in Q3 this year.]]>May 28th 2010 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hitachi-and-lg-tease-hydrive-an-optical-reader-with-loads-of-na/May 29th 2010 4:41AM