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Amir Abbas
Seagate is, without any doubt, the largest hard drive manufacturer on Earth. Since it's not enough to have the lead in numbers, they are also working hard in researching new technologies and trying to improve existing ones before anyone else. Since their consumer-level products are the only ones having a 5-year warranty, it's obvious their research and manufacturing teams are doing a great job, and today I just found out they are planning to improve hybrid hard disks, taking speed and reliability another few steps further.
If you didn't know about the existence of HHDs, it's pretty simple - they are the link between "old school" hard drives, and the new (and very expensive) solid state drives (SSDs). The MacBook Air is the best example of how an SSD can change the price of a product, since the price of the version using a 64GB SSD is more than $1000 higher than that of the "standard" MacBook Air.Anyway, currently the performance of HHDs over traditional hard drives doesn't justify the higher price tag, and so Seagate wants to set things straight. At this time, HHDs only feature up to 256MB of flash memory, and since regular drives already started to come with 32MB of cache memory, the improvement is not as high as expected.According to Joni Clark, senior product marketing manager at Seagate, "What the consumers came to us and said, and what the lackluster reviews told us, was that… customers want more performance out of hybrid drives. They said, go back to the hybrid technology, and give us either larger [amounts of] flash, a better use of flash, or a combination of both.", and since this is completely true, we need to see how well are they going to blend performance and competitive pricing into a single product.Unfortunately, the new drive generation from Seagate isn't something clearly shaped to anyone at this time, as Ms' Clark only said the new drive will be "focused on flash memory" and "will blow anything that's out there today out of the water" so, once again, we need to sit back and wait...
If you didn't know about the existence of HHDs, it's pretty simple - they are the link between "old school" hard drives, and the new (and very expensive) solid state drives (SSDs). The MacBook Air is the best example of how an SSD can change the price of a product, since the price of the version using a 64GB SSD is more than $1000 higher than that of the "standard" MacBook Air.Anyway, currently the performance of HHDs over traditional hard drives doesn't justify the higher price tag, and so Seagate wants to set things straight. At this time, HHDs only feature up to 256MB of flash memory, and since regular drives already started to come with 32MB of cache memory, the improvement is not as high as expected.According to Joni Clark, senior product marketing manager at Seagate, "What the consumers came to us and said, and what the lackluster reviews told us, was that… customers want more performance out of hybrid drives. They said, go back to the hybrid technology, and give us either larger [amounts of] flash, a better use of flash, or a combination of both.", and since this is completely true, we need to see how well are they going to blend performance and competitive pricing into a single product.Unfortunately, the new drive generation from Seagate isn't something clearly shaped to anyone at this time, as Ms' Clark only said the new drive will be "focused on flash memory" and "will blow anything that's out there today out of the water" so, once again, we need to sit back and wait...
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