Samsung’s Hybrid Hard Drive Exposed

Samsung is preparing to release a new Flash memory-assisted computer hard drive that boasts improved performance, reduced energy consumption, a faster boot time, and better reliability. The new hybrid hard drive will be released around the same time as the upcoming Windows Vista operating system and will be one of the first hardware designed specifically to benefit from it.

This sounds like a type of hard drive storage that we will all welcome. 128MB – 256MB of Cache is a huge jump from what we are used to now. With Vista on the horizon, I think people will take extra speed wherever they can find it…