Posted November 6, 2012, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
The Data Storage Institute (DSI) of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) has announced a new ultra-thin high-density hybrid hard drive that bests a recently unveiled Western Digital product. In what is said to be the smallest and…
Posted September 11, 2012, 8:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
Western Digital has revealed they are sampling a new 5mm-thick (0.2-inch) hybrid storage drive that could end up in future Ultrabooks. Western Digital’s 500GB unit will utilize a small amount of flash memory in addition to traditional spinning media to…
Posted September 29, 2011, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Hardware
The US Patent & Trademark Office has published a patent from Apple that details a hybrid drive system using a traditional hard drive and flash memory. Unlike current hybrid systems that focus solely on performance gains, Apple’s system would be…
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