Hybrid Storage Alliance Formed to support Hard Drives with Flash Memory

In a move to give the growing number of notebook users faster, more durable systems that run longer on a battery charge, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate Technology and Toshiba have formed the Hybrid Storage Alliance. The goals of the industry group are two-fold: (1) illustrate how flash memory/hard drive hybrid technology can extend the capabilities of today's notebook computers and (2) accelerate market adoption of the technology.

Hybrid hard drive technology is the industry's answer to growing demand for notebooks that deliver the speed and durability of desktops. Hybrid technology, which can be deployed in other mobile devices and computing systems, combines the unmatched capacity and cost-effectiveness of hard drives with the responsiveness, power-efficiency and durability of flash memory.

Reportedly, Windows Vista will support this technology. We will have to wait at least until Macworld next week to find out if hybrid drive technology will be supported by Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Market research firm IDC predicts hybrid hard disk drives will constitute 35 percent of all hard disk drives shipped with notebooks by 2010. [Bill Fox]

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