Reportlinker Adds Hybrid Drives, How, Why, and When?

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.

Reportlinker Adds Hybrid Drives, How, Why, and When?

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Hybrid Disk Drives, the combination of a standard hard disk drive and a NAND chip, are a budding phenomenon enabled by new features of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. This technology promises to sweep the PC hard drive market. Objective Analysis’ Hybrid Disk Drive study will explain the technology, its potential market, competing technologies, and how the NAND market, the PC market, and the HDD market will all be impacted by this new twist on an old technology.

Executive Summary 1

What is a Hybrid Hard Disk Drive? 2

Elements of a Standard HDD 2

The DRAM Cache 3

Limitations of DRAM Caches 4

A NAND Alternative 4

NAND’s Nonvolatile Advantage 5

NAND’s Price Advantage 5

NAND as a Cache for the HDD 6

Intel’s Turbo Memory Alternative 7

SanDisk’s Vaulter Disk 8

Benefits of the Hybrid HDD 11

Power Consumption 11

Access Speed 13

Reliability 14

Shock Tolerance 14

Where the Truth Lies 15

The Role of Software Support 17

Why a Cache Needs Software Support 17

The “Instant-On” Myth 18

Issues with Legacy 20

Why will Support Take so Long to Materialize? 20

Alternatives to Hybrid Drives 22

Solid State Drives 22

Strengths 22

Weaknesses 22

Standard HDDs 22

Strengths 22

Weaknesses 22

DRAM Write Caches 23

Strengths 23

Weaknesses 23

Increased DRAM Main Memory 23

Strengths 23

Weaknesses 23

Cost Implications of NAND Disk Caches 24

How NAND Costs will Add to HDD Costs 24

Consumer Reaction to Costs of Alternatives 25

Net Benefit to the NAND Market 26

HDD Makers’ Plans 28

Devices Currently Introduced 28

Samsung 28

Seagate 28

Fujitsu 29

Hitachi 29

Toshiba 29

Western Digital 29

Expectations for the Future 29

What Happens Next? 31

Near-Term Expectations 31

Software Changes and Their Impact 31

A Forecast for Hybrid HDD Shipments 32

The Impact of Hybrid Drives on the NAND Market 34

Summary 36

Methodology 37

Figures 38

Tables 39

Author 40

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