Samsung releases new laptop with hybrid HDD
April 23rd, 2007 Posted in Blog Post, NewsSamsung appears to be the first laptop maker out of the gate with the new hybrid HDD:
Samsung has announced it’s first laptops with new Hybrid HDD built in. The first to get this Hybrid HDD upgrade is 15.4″ Samsung R55 multimedia notebook.
So what is a hybrid hdd?
Hybrid HDD is a technology that ads a flash RAM chip to the standard HDD. This way most frequently used data can be stored and read from flash memory, reducing the usage (spin) of HDD itself.
So what does that mean to me?
According to Samsung, when used for small chunks (up to 10Mb) of data in R55, Hybrid Hard Drive had 26% improvement on data reading and 71% improvement of datawriting speed, 32% lower power consumption and increased HDD longevity by 10%.
No, really, what does it mean to me? OK. You can access all of those old episodes of The Transformers faster that you downloaded from a bit torrent site.
