According to market research firm Objective Analysis published a new report points out that software errors (software snafus) will drag on hybrid hard drives in 2008 (hybrid hard disk) introduced the progress.The report predicts that there will be 1,300 million units in 2008, only integration of key data for the temporary hard drive NAND flash shipments.
Objective Analysis of the head of Jim Handy said: "Microsoft (Microsoft) the ReadyDrive software concept is very good, but the company could not focus on the software, because they have to spend effort to repair Vista's vulnerability." He said: "Some of theEarly hard drives of these benchmarks (benchmarks) the results are not consistent. "But the performance adjustment is necessary.
"Some of the benchmarks show that hybrid hard drives in the implementation of some software faster, while a software implementation of the other slow." Handy said.And this new generation of hybrid hard drives is mainly used in notebook computers: "The importance of the applications will become increasingly significant, but not in 2008; the hard drive's success depends on whether Microsoft software in the solutionquestion put enough effort. "
Objective Analysis predicts hybrid hard disk drive in 2007 less than 1 million shipments in 2008 that shipments of hard disk drive only about 1,300 million units.But the agency is also expected in 2009, this figure could grow to 9,000 million head in 2010 was 200 million 2,000 million.
At present, only Samsung and Seagate have launched hybrid hard drive; these two models introduced include 80Gbytes, 120 Gbytes, or 160Gbytes capacity, integrated 256Mbytes of NAND temporary memory.The other hard drive manufacturers are going to wait until the market demand emerges only when the hard drive to begin production hybrid products.
In the Vista operating system software, hybrid hard drive can reduce your system or open the application time and data commonly used code to be quickly retrieved.However, hybrid hard drives may also discourage the use of solid-state flash drives of all market opportunities, and to provide a price substantially lower than the performance and reliability significantly improved.
Handy estimated that hybrid hard drive is priced at $ 10, while the solid-state drives using flash memory unit of at least $ 300: "The hybrid hard drive provides more than 80% solid-state disk performance, but the price is much lower."