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Hitachi shows Hydrive
JAPANESE ELECTRONICS MAKER Hitachi has lifted the kimono on what it says is the world's first SSD-equipped laptop optical drive.
The Hydrive is a standard form factor optical drive, but there's a 32GB or 64GB SSD under its bonnet. This means you can immediately access an optical drive, an SSD and a spacious HDD for storing the media.
Three-drive arrangements have been around before, however this one is made for ultraportables. Another plus to the Hydrive is the integrated defect management technology, which essentially caches information from scratched discs in order to play the content back without any jitters.
Hitachi says that it will be in the shops worldwide in September. It will first be seen in the 102 Series of Moneual HTPCs.
Hitachi is thinking of slimming the Hydrive down and sticking it in a tablet or netbook. There's also plans to move from SATA2 3Gbps to SATA3 6Gbps.
The first generation will measure 12.7mm thick, and we're told that it won't fit into most conventional laptops. µ
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I don't think that's right, the article says 'Three-drive arrangements have been around before, however this one is made for ultraportables.'
This suggests that this 'one' is a three-drive arrangement. However the article is very unclear. Clarification please Mr Berridge.
People on the Inquirer not reading articles and jumping to conclusions? Really? Next time people, don't jump straight to the comments. It doesn't say anywhere that it has a 1.8" HDD built in, nor any size HDD. It was mearly making the assumption that a laptop you're adding an SSD to will already contain a HDD and as such you'll be able to have 3 methods of storage (pre-existing HDD and SSD/optical drive combo) in a device where you originally only had 2 (optical and HDD or SSD)
For continuity:
-Anon
F'N LOL what are you smoking?
Can I have some too?
Do you even know what a decent sized SSD is going for? For what I'd have to cough up for One SSD I could have Three or more 1TiB HDD. Certainly 2x 2.5" 500GiB jobs
Not hardly come back at the end of the Decade we'll talk again!
:lol:
SSD = Solid State Drive = New Hard Drives with no moving parts that can be used in computers
HDD = Is as you should know a Hard Disk Drive from the 80's and is on its way out.
Read the internet one time.
ORLY.jpg lol I don't think so there pal.
SSD = Solid State Drive (e.g. RAM Chips)
HDD = Is as you should know a Hard Disk Drive (i.e. Moving Parts and Platters
Definitely NOT the same thing there Pockko.
ssd=hdd
This thing is a CD/DVD Burner and Blu-Ray ROM, with a built in SSD?
Ok I can deal with that, but how did they (or did they), add the HDD to this thing?
Did they manage a way to squeeze an 1.8" HDD in that mess?