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Hybrid Hard Drives stalled by software
25 February, 2008
The highly promoted Hybrid Hard Drive will not make a big
splash in 2008, finds a new report by Objective Analysis.
PC users who are waiting for a technology to speed their
boot times are going to have to wait a little longer.
Objective Analysis has published an up-to-date look into
this market in its report, "Hybrid Hard Drives: How,
Why, And When", that explains the technology, explores
its market, and reveals the outlook for the coming years.
"Once all the kinks are ironed out, hybrid drives
and their counterparts should sweep the market," said
Jim Handy, the report's author. "Unfortunately, the
hardware is ready but the software support is weak. Hybrid
drives will have to wait for better support to justify their
small additional cost."
The report takes a special look at alternative technologies
like solid-state drives (SSDs), Intel's Turbo Memory, the
SanDisk Vaulter Disk, larger DRAM main memories and DRAM
HDD caches, and even small SSDs from Samsung. The report
reviews members of the Hybrid Drive Alliance members Fujitsu,
Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital,
and details their product offerings.
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