Samsung goes hybrid

On March 7th, 2007, Samsung shipped what it called the world’s first hybrid hard drive although experts might point to the Dynamic Network Factory shipping, in early February 2007, of their own flavor of hybrid hard drive.

Nevertheless, this is a significant announcement because hybrid hard drives combines standard disk drives (spinning plates) with solid-state RAM (256MB OneNAND) to form an energy efficient design. Calling it a smarter hard drive might also define this product correctly.

Samsung’s MH80 Series SATA (1.5GB interface) hybrid hard drive is offered in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities, according the the company’s official statement.

The MH80 Series hybrid hard drive is currently shipping to select OEM customers so the rest of us might soon be able to purchase our very own “hybrid” in retail and commercial outlets.

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One Response to “Samsung goes hybrid”

1. cgelinas says:

   June 5, 2007 at 3:24 pm

   The idea of using hybrid memory types to deliver improved HD performance is awesome but I’d like to see GBs of solid-state RAM instead of mere MBs.