Monday, April 23rd 2007
Samsung Announces Q30 Notebook with Hybrid HDD
Hybrid HDDs are increasingly starting to take place as a primary hard drives in the latest notebooks. Samsung has now announced its Q30 15.4" wide notebook that will feature the MH80 hybrid hard drive (256MB flash). Samsung announced back in early March that it had begun shipping its new MH80 Series hybrid HDDs which are available in capacities of 80GB, 120GB and 160GB. These drives also come equipped with either 128MB or 256MB of onboard flash memory. Internal testing has shown that when compared to a traditional HDD, the hybrid-equipped Q30 has 26% faster writes, 71% faster reads, 30% lower boot times and a 10% increase in battery life. Besides the 80GB MH80 hybrid HDD, the Q30 also packs a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 processor, 15.4" WXGA screen, NVIDIA GeForce 7400 mobile GPU with 256MB of RAM and a Super-multi dual-layer DVD writer.
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9 Comments on Samsung Announces Q30 Notebook with Hybrid HDD
the data is first sent to memory at high speed, and then transfered to the platters at its own pace, reducing slow downs. Most add-on cards has the feature.
Nice addition for Samsung. Not bad,but they need to get higher capacities so we can go ahead and put them in the desktops.
it shows that with full-solid-state drives coming out now just how "blegh" these hybrid drives are (just look at this thread -- people are talking more about the model's ethnicity than about the product).