Latest Hybrid drive Stories

SINGAPORE, November 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The "A-Drive", one of the world's thinnest 5mm hybrid hard drives in a 2.5" form factor, was officially launched by Mr. S. Iswaran, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade & Industry, to commemorate the Data Storage Institute's (DSI) 20 years of R&D in the area of data storage capabilities. The "A-Drive" represents the next generation of storage innovation providing...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Among the surprises Tim Cook and Phil Schiller launched into the world during Tuesday’s Apple event was one small, seemingly innocuous detail called Fusion Drive. As Schiller described it, this new drive (available in the new iMacs and Mac Minis) was simply an alchemy of flash and physical disks resulting in a perfect mix of speed and storage. The way he had described it, it was easy to interpret Fusion Drive as little more than...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced it is sampling a 5mm-thin hard disk drive featuring hybrid technology. WD has developed hard drives slim enough for integration into today's thinnest notebook PCs, which provide high-capacity storage and robustness while featuring instant-on and application performance similar to today's client solid state drives (SSDs). The new technologies will be showcased...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MyService, a leading nationwide Apple Authorized Service Provider and Reseller, now carries the Momentus XT 750GB hybrid drive by Seagate. This Mac upgrade delivers the capacity and value of a traditional hard drive combined with speeds that are close to that of a solid state drive. The hybrid drive technology combines a 7200RPM hard disk with an 8GB solid state buffer. The drive's firmware assigns commonly used files to the solid...

Big data needs big power. The server farms that undergird the Internet run on a vast tide of electricity. Even companies that have invested in upgrades to minimize their eco-footprint use tremendous amounts: The New York Times estimates that Google, for example, uses enough electricity in its data centers to power about 200,000 homes. Now, a team of Princeton University engineers has a solution that could radically cut that power use. Through a new software technique, researchers from the...

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Monster Digital®, a leading innovator and developer of advanced memory storage solutions, today announced it is teaming with Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX), a global leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, to make it easy to upgrade laptop and desktop PC storage to Seagate's Momentus® XT solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). With the new Monster Digital easy upgrade kit, computer users will now be able to turbo-charge the boot times...

Singapore, Nov 18, 2011 - (ACN Newswire) - Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million of media tablet sold in 2010, and the salesvolume is projected to reach over 200 million units by 2014 . As media tablets seem to be an emerging trend and continues its expansion into mass consumer market, there is a lot of potential to improve...

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS), a global leader and technology innovator in optical disc storage (ODD), revealed to introduce SAT 6.0Gbps based 2nd Generation, 'Hybrid Drive', as a successive product to ODD Hybrid Drive 1st Generation introduced in Taiwan last June which was loaded with SSD (Solid State Drive) for the first time in the world, at CEATEC 2010 held in Makuhari Messe, Japan, from October 5 to 9. The 2nd Generation, 'Hybrid...

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS), a global leader and technology innovator in optical disc storage(ODD) revealed to introduce SAT 6.0Gbps based 2nd Generation, 'Hybrid Drive,' as a successive product to ODD Hybrid Drive 1st Generation introduced in Taiwan last June which was loaded with SSD(Solid State Drive) for the first time in the world, at CEATEC 2010 held in Makuhari Messe, Japan, from October 5 to 9. The 2nd Generation, 'Hybrid Drive,'...

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? http://www.reportlinker.com/p0154020/Reportlinker-Adds-Hybrid-Drives-How-Why-and-When.html 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...