If only life were still so simple! The rise of solid-state drives and hybrid drives (which mix standard hard drives with solid-state memory) have significantly altered the storage landscape ...

A solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD) combines the best of both worlds: It’s a traditional spinning hard disk enhanced with a small amount of quick solid-state cache memory. The Hybrid Drive marries ...

No caching will have occurred the first time you use a hybrid drive, so its initial performance will be the same as that of a mechanical hard drive, but the speed will increase over time.

Several major hard drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage — hybrid hard drives. Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu and Toshiba are ...

Hybrid HDDs combine some flash cache on the drive circuit board with hard disk drive storage. Usually the flash capacity in these drives is 16 GB or less, although Western Digital has a hybrid ...

Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives. Seagate Technology, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu and ...

Apple is apparently working on a hybrid hard-drive system, pairing a platter-based traditional drive with flash memory in a configuration that could prevent data loss if your MacBook is dropped or ...

Those 7mm-thick hard drives you've seen in some Ultrabooks are already looking a tad on the chunky side. Western Digital has started producing sample versions of a hybrid hard drive (you're not ...

Learn More. SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Hybrid hard drives wont get traction in the marketplace unless Microsoft makes up its mind that it wants to support them with optimized drivers. The discussion ...

However, with Vista now in general release, the timing for hybrid hard drives may not meet the early rosy predictions. It appears that many system vendors are still looking for someone else to be ...

SSD vs HDD is a hot contest right now, and hybrid drives offer solid middle ground. As of now, picking between SSDs, HDDs, and SSHDs is quite tricky. While it seems all black and white ...