Hybrid HDDs to Redefine Data Storage for Mobile Computing Platform

As the mobile PC market is expanding at a fast rate, various efforts are being made to address top user concerns, i.e. performance and battery life. The conventional laptop hard disk drives (HDDs) take up considerable amount of power, approximately 8-10% of overall consumption. Further, these HDDs have high seek-latency times, which makes your performance suffer. To overcome these woes, a new range of skinny HDDs featuring ?Hybrid technology? has hit the storage industry. The new technology adds a layer of NAND flash memory to HDDs to accelerate the loading of frequently-used programs and provide instant-on responsiveness.

A typical example of hybrid HDD implementation is tiered storage. The data accessed more often is handled through a speedy NAND flash to enable faster response times, while the infrequently accessed information is stored on powerful magnetic disks. This type of design also allows for data redundancy, as the magnetic disks perform routine backups for all data stored in the NAND. The slimmer and lighter design is undoubtedly good for ultra-thin computers, such as ultra books and SSD-based notebook PCs. Further, these hybrid HDDs will find their place in other market segments, such as all-in-one desktops, gaming platforms, external hard disk drives, and tablet PC designs.

Eying the number of benefits of hybrid HDDs, their shipments are expected to rise incredibly in the next four years, increasing from 1.2 million units this year to 25.0 million units by 2016. On the other hand, its potential competitor (the hard disk drive with cache SSD) will also see a surge in shipments, but not probably at the same rate, i.e. reaching 64.2 million in 2016 from 9.8 million units in 2012. With an intent to provide fast SSD-like data throughput as well as high storage in the smallest form factor, these drives will easily replace the 9.5mm and 7mm HDDs employed by notebook PCs.

This innovation is a lead forward in reviving the notebook market and bringing it close to the rival media tablets in competition. The hybrid HDDs were first introduced by Seagate Technology and Samsung Electronics in 2006 and 2007 respectively. At the time, their benefits for the end users were not realized. Thus, the hybrid technology failed to make headlines. Today, consumers are well-acquainted with the real-time benefits of hybrid HDDs and are ready to take advantage of this on their end.

Source: http://www.stellardatarecovery.co.uk/blog/hybrid-hdds-to-redefine-data-storage-for-mobile-computing-platform/

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