Monday, October 8th 2007
Seagate Launches First Laptop Hybrid Hard Drive
Seagate has finally started shipping its Momentus 5400 PSD 2.5-inch hybrid hard drive to OEMs. The drive will be available in 80, 120, and 160GB capacities with a SATA 1.5 interface, 8MB of cache, and 256MB of flash memory to buffer cached write requests to disk. Seagate's HHDs are said to reduce boot time from 40 to 32 seconds while cutting average power consumption from 0.78 to 0.45 watts. However, Melissa Johnson, a Seagate product manager, says the sub-par performance for all HHDs stems from first generation issues with both the BIOS and Vista device drivers because they do not know how to properly utilize the flash memory.
Source:
ExtremeTech
12 Comments on Seagate Launches First Laptop Hybrid Hard Drive
also... sata 1.5??? i've heard of sata 1/sata 150 and sata 2. but 1.5??
i think this idea is great for NCQ disks aswell :toast:
Sata 3/300 = sata-II
Companies love messing with the name, say its a sata-II drive but missing a feature (NCQ) ooops we cant call it sata-II, so now its just a sata 300 drive.
And don't these only work properly with Vista?
For the average joe word processing on a laptop, that cuts out a lot of wear and tear on the motor, and its safer if he's typing on the go too, since the motor is inactive the drive is safer from shocks/bumps