The Hybrid Drive marries the cost-effective storage capacity of a regular HDD with some of the speed benefits of an SSD. The SSD component acts as a cache, storing frequently accessed data and ...

Enter the Hybrid Solid State drive (SSHD). Hybrid SSDs have the traditional moving parts of a mechanical hard drive, but are augmented with 8GB of NAND flash -- the same type of non-volatile ...

To the computer’s operating system, a hybrid drive appears as a single unit with the SSD portion acting strictly as a large cache. The cache is nonvolatile, so the data doesn’t disappear when ...

What is a Hybrid Hard Drive (SSHD) Late until 2012, manufacturers were making either HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) or SSDs (Solid State Drives) or both and kept them separate for use with computers.

The Hybrid comprises a standard pair of SandForce SF-2281 controllers that work in tandem (not RAID); while they can work like an ordinary SSD, they will instead serve as a cache for the hard disk ...

Raidon on Monday unveiled the HyBrid Disk, a storage device that features both a solid-state drive (SSD) and a hard drive in one mechanism. Designed to replace 3.5-inch hard drive mechanisms ...

Samsung has inadvertently revealed an upcoming SSD dubbed the 990 EVO. Previously, there was just a Pro model, which uses a PCIe 4.0 interface, and the company has yet to announce a next ...

These were hybrid hard disk drives, with a small amount of NAND flash to act as a cache to boost performance. They weren't rubbish but outside of synthetic benchmarks, the tiny SSD provide little ...

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 ...

Because the cache volume is essentially hidden from the OS, users aren’t required to cherry-pick which data to store on the SSD and which on the hard drive. The hybrid storage volume can be as ...