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 ...

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 ...

The hybrid SSD/HDD (or SSHD) is now appearing, and it offers both SSD speeds and HDD capacities at a reasonable price. The SSD has obvious advantages in speed of response, small size, light weight ...

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 ...

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 ...

The D8 Hybrid is a versatile USB storage enclosure that lets you use up to four 3.5/2.5-inch HDDs or SSDs, as well as up to four NVMe SSDs. It’s only 10Gbps, which is easily fast enough for HDDs ...

A new report from IHS iSuppli shows that while sales of hybrid drives are expected to double over the next year, that increase is unremarkable compared with sales of pure solid-state drives (SSDs ...

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 ...

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 ...