We already reported that during the present week Seagate company intends to announce the hybrid HDD momentus XT, which derives the idea of magnetic plate and solid-state memory association in one disk. The HDD in this series has traditional magnetic plate, rotation speed 7200 rp/min, buffers with 32 mb volume., SATA-300 interface and block of rapid solid-state memory SLC with 4 Gb volume.
Yesterday the hard disks Seagate momentus XT was represented officially. The controller of these HDD determines most frequently utilized data and copies them from the magnetic plate in the solid-state memory in order to accelerate access to this information. It is remarkable, that similar optimization is conducted independent of operating system or drivers.
Seagate declares, that hybrid HDD is up to 80% faster than its traditional HDD. We should understand that this assertion is correct for specific tasks, which imply repeated use of same data. Software installation or the copying of large volumes will not win from the passage to hybrid disk. The ability to accelerate the operating system load and call the frequently utilized applications must become one of the special features of hybrid HDD. Those disks are presented in volume 250 Gb ($113), 320 Gb ($132) and 500 Gb ($156). On the price, they approximately 40% more expensive than traditional. Asus company will equip with a pair of hybrid HDD momentus XT its notebook ROG G73JH.