Momentus XT, a SS Hybrid from Seagate!

[Euklid]

On May 26 2010, Seagate held a web conference to release details about
their new 'SS Hybrid' hard-drives. I'm watching it now, you can see it here.


What is it?

Hard-drive that is 150% faster than 7200RPM, but nowhere near the price of
a Solid State Drive. They took a regular HDD and added 4GB of flash memory,
and it uses built-in software to determine the most essential data to store in
its flash memory.

The result is a hard-drive that performs almost like a SSD, but it costs way
less. So if you've been waiting for prices to drop on Solid State Drives,
like me, I guess we won't have to wait much longer.
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[87dtna]

Interesting. Any expected price ranges known?

 

[diduknowthat]

I've seen drives like these come out a few years ago. They're pretty interesting but still not as fast as SSDs. I think it'll make a good transition phase drive but will become obsolete once SSDs really come down in price. It's kind of like a hybrid car.

 

[ganzey]

so its just a hard drive with 4gb of cahce?