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Hybrid Drives Are Here — But they’re Irrelevant to Enterprise Storage

July 19, 2007 By Stephen 2 Comments

It isn’t every day that a new hard disk technology is introduced, but Samsung recently did just that with the introduction of their SpinPoint MH80. This conventional looking SATA hard drive packs 256 MB of NAND flash memory alongside two conventional platters totaling 160 GB of traditional magnetic storage. Tellingly, it’s a 2.5” laptop drive with only 8 MB of cache. This on … [Read more...] about Hybrid Drives Are Here — But they’re Irrelevant to Enterprise Storage

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