Hybrid Hard Drives for PCs
What is a Hybrid Hard Drive?
"Hybrid hard disk drives meld the benefits of Flash technology with the high capacity and cost advantages realized by hard disk drive technology."
The advantages are "Increased power efficiency resulting in extended battery life. Because a hybrid solution will power down the drive spindle motor and operate out of the solid state cache for longer periods of time, the power consumption required by the drive is greatly reduced."
So PCs can boot up / return from hibernation faster. When the disk drive is powered down there is less wear and greater stability.
In addition ...
- Compliant to ATA T13 Open Standard
- No impact on the current chassis design
- Native Support from Microsoft Vista OS
- Excellent Data Integrity
- Plenty of suppliers
Via: Hybrid Storage Alliance Link