{"id":325,"date":"2010-06-24T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/?p=325"},"modified":"2018-05-20T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:39:41","slug":"new-hybrid-drive-launched-by-hitachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/new-hybrid-drive-launched-by-hitachi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hybrid Drive Launched by Hitachi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hydrive.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hitachi LG Data Storage (HLDS) has created a new type of hard drive. It is a Blu-ray drive with internal solid state drive (SSD) technology. This drive is designed to provide the 30 to 60% faster booting speed possible with SSD devices. Each drive comes with either 32GB \u00a0or 64GB of SSD drive space.<\/p>\n<p>The new drive can also be used as a pure storage device as an addition to the computer\u2019s normal disk drive or , as it is being developed by both AMD and ASUS, as the primary hard drive with no need for flash memory on the mother board.<\/p>\n<p>It is a standard form factor optical drive with either DVD or Blu-ray burning capabilities. The HyDrive has an integrated Defect Management technology that caches information from scratched discs so it can play the content back without jitters.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this drive can provide flawless playback for CD, DVD and Blu-ray media and write CD and DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>The HyDrive has a 3GB\/s SATA interface and Hitachi is promising a 6GB\/s SATA interface by March of 2011. They are also promising the ability to upgrade to 256GB of flash memory. The flash memory can write up to 175MB\/sec and write up to 60MB\/sec.<\/p>\n<p>According to Niles Burbank, the senior product manager for AMD\u2019s Platform Solutions, \u201cAMD&#8217;s &#8220;8-series chipsets have both the required hardware and driver support for HyDrive, including SATA port multiplier support, which enables combined optical and solid state functionality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>ASUSAMD and MONEUAL are collaborating on the product\u2019s development and launch. The first versions of Hydrive will be available on MONEUAL\u2019s Family PC MN 102-O and on ASUS Eee Tablet this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Flash memory has finally become cheap enough to make hybrid drives a reality and a welcome one at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid = SSD technology combined with an Optical Drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,68,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}