About Seagate Hybrid SSD (Platter Hard Drive)

July 24, 2009

Hardware - Seagate offers the best of both worlds with a new hard drive, Momentus XT, which combines the features on the disk drive at a speed Solid State Drive (SSD). The combination of these two is a special algorithm, user habits and store the data more often away in the SSD or data when they are not used again to study.

Seagate (NYSE: STX), and tried something a few years ago, but the units were not received well as shortcomings in the work. After several years of scientific and technological progress, the company said it has developed strains.

Momentus XT is a division of 2,5-inch form factor designed for notebooks, but very good on a desktop or server with a third bracket in 3.5 “drive bay.

“We know that 2.5 inch is the fastest growing segment. Desktop computers are becoming smaller, and there are a lot of media to use the device in a desktop case. This was the result of” John Clark, director of marketing, told InternetNews.com Momentus. She said that Seagate has no plans to produce special versions for desktop computer or server.

Momentus XT comes in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB capacities, he worked at 7200 rpm, but at a much lower price than solid-state hard disk on the same power. In the 500 GB SSD is available, the price to $ 1399. Momentus 500GB XT has a retail price of $ 156.

Part 4 GB SSD is a single-level cell (SLC) flash technology. If every time that the memory is consumed meals on the disc still usable, and only if a normal hard drive, “said Clark. But the test for 24/7/365 use Seagate, the company found that after 5 years, only 10 percent of cells was exhausted.

Self-learning algorithm, which decides what is stored on the SSD, the juice “magic between the two,” said Clark. “You know that it is difficult to achieve and that is often used and recorded in the state. Thus, the user will know that you like to use and makes the super-fast response time.”

Frequently used data, as well as Windows file and its components are the logical choice, but if Clark is based on data that are “hard to get” means that the natural tendency of the data, scattered disk. Even with defragmentation, with life the hard disk data on physical disks scattered. This makes the Windows Performance impact for many years, distributed in the form of files on your hard drive and follow the requests to slow down. SSD algorithms designed to deal with this situation.

Memory technology of adaptive learning algorithm takes about three iterations to learn the habits of users. The first time you boot the system performance as a typical hard drive. For the second time we do something about that and download time is reduced by 10-15 per cent of lessons. In the beginning the other hand there is at boot time is reduced by half.

This means learning unit is about 80-90 percent faster than conventional hard drives. ‘If you get such a speed SSD, try to have a drive 150 GB or 256 GB, which are quite expensive sacrifice. Therefore, there is no possibility to get to speed, “says Clark.

The suggested price is $ 156 per piece for 500 GB hard drive, $ 132 for 320 GB hard drive, and $ 113 for the 250GB version. It broadcasts throughout the week.

Seagate also plans to offer the highest capacity 7200 RPM 2.5-inch hard drive, but Momentus 750GB XT. So far, the highest capacity 7200 RPM was 500 GB. Will ship in June. Prices to be announced.


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