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On Wednesday, Seagate announced a number of new products to offer consumers increased access to digital home entertainment in an increasingly on-demand world, including its first hybrid hard drive that incorporates flash memory.
The company also launched several hard drives for the consumer and enterprise markets, as well as a portable pocket drive and updated personal server.
Hybrid hard drives incorporating flash memory have been talked about ever since Microsoft introduced the concept at the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Last year, Samsung, the world's largest producer of flash memory, predicted that the first hybrid drives incorporating flash memory and rotating storage would come to market in 2006, a promise that has been borne out.
At the recent WinHEC show, both Seagate and Samsung showed prototypes of the new drive, which they dubbed "ReadyDrive".
The Momentus 5400 PSD is Seagate's first hybrid hard drive, incorporating 256 Mbytes of flash memory that serves as a fast cache for booting and saving data. When booting the PC, the operating system loads data from the flash memory first, speeding bootup times and negating the need to quickly spin up the drive, a power-consuming process.
On Wednesday, Seagate announced a number of new products to offer consumers increased access to digital home entertainment in an increasingly on-demand world, including its first hybrid hard drive that incorporates flash memory.
The company also launched several hard drives for the consumer and enterprise markets, as well as a portable pocket drive and updated personal server.
Hybrid hard drives incorporating flash memory have been talked about ever since Microsoft introduced the concept at the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Last year, Samsung, the world's largest producer of flash memory, predicted that the first hybrid drives incorporating flash memory and rotating storage would come to market in 2006, a promise that has been borne out.
At the recent WinHEC show, both Seagate and Samsung showed prototypes of the new drive, which they dubbed "ReadyDrive".
The Momentus 5400 PSD is Seagate's first hybrid hard drive, incorporating 256 Mbytes of flash memory that serves as a fast cache for booting and saving data. When booting the PC, the operating system loads data from the flash memory first, speeding bootup times and negating the need to quickly spin up the drive, a power-consuming process.
