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Seagate’s Barracuda to Add Hybrids
On Tuesday, November 1, Seagate announced improvements to its flagship Barracuda line of 3.5″ HDDs for the desktop. The 5,900 RPM Barracuda Green will be discontinued in February The 7,200 RPM...
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New Seagate Hybrid Drives: 2x the Flash, 2x the I/O Speed
Seagate has just announced an upgrade to the company’s Momentus XT hybrid HDD family. Seagate announced in August that the company had already shipped over one million units of its first generation...
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Western Digital CEO: Hybrid Drives “Strategic”
During Western Digital’s April 26 earnings call (as transcribed by Seeking Alpha) CEO John Coyne disclosed that Western Digital has ongoing development efforts in hybrid HDDs: “In addition, we are...
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Toshiba Reveals Hybrid HDD Research
Nikkei Electronics published an article on May 22 detailing a May 17 briefing by Toshiba president Norio Sasaki. Mr. Sasaki told of the company’s plans to introduce a hybrid HDD (HHDD) in September of...
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Seagate Updates Hybrid Drive
At the Intel Developer Forum Intel showed Seagate‘s updated Momentus XT Hybrid Solid State Drive in operation. The new drive is only 7mm thick, significantly thinner than the 9.5mm Momentus XT that...
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Apple’s Fusion Drive – An SSD Cache for the Macintosh
On October 23 along with the highly-anticipated announcement of the iPad 4, Apple rolled out new Macintosh computers that for the first time in an Apple product pairs an SSD with a conventional HDD to...
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Seagate Upgrades Hybrids, Phases Out 7,200RPM HDDs
Seagate made two important statements on two successive days – March 4 and 5: First, the company disclosed plans to phase out its 7,200 RPM 2.5″ notebook HDDs, and second, Seagate announced a new line...
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