Hybrid hard drives from Toshiba
The rumors talked for some time, so it's now official: Seagate, currently the only supplier of hybrid hard drives gets competition from Toshiba. At the Flash Memory Summit, the Japanese show a demo notebook in which the manufacturer wants a 2.5-inch hybrid hard drive (height: 9.5 mm, speed 5400 r / min) infected with 1 TB of our own manufacture. Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB holds just yet.
The Toshiba drive is functioning as the Seagate drive and contains the actual magnetic storage medium for at least 8 GB of NAND flash memory (probably SLC flash), which the drive uses as a cache for disk accesses. There they shall automatically by the operating system most frequently requested data additionally.
This operating system and application launch to the operating can be drastically reduced with a conventional disk. At the booth, took the notebook with hybrid drive at around 24 seconds, only three seconds longer to boot than an otherwise identical out stattes notebook with an SSD from Toshiba's new 19-nanometer flash series.
Ideally, hybrid drives deliver nearly so SSD performance and cost only a relatively small additional cost over traditional notebook drives of the same capacity. So that they are affordable - unlike high-capacity SSDs. The downside: If the "right" data is not in cache, the drives work just as fast as standard notebook drives.
Toshiba wanted to show us the hybrid panel, strangely, but not, we are able to even mention any product name or details of the transfer speed or power. This raises the suspicion that it will take the market that we find. It is supposed to be but this year so far.
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