Sun is first releasing a new version of its Solaris operating system designed to integrate flash and traditional disk-drive storage, and in the next six months it plans to sell its own flash storage drives aimed at businesses.
The "A-Drive" represents the next generation of storage innovation providing capacities of up to 1 TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with 32 GB Solid State Drive (SSD).
Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.
One very nice feature is support for torrents that you can trigger remotely for download to the player (presumably on an attached disk drive here, as there's no internal storage from what we can tell).
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At the Flash Memory Summit Toshiba demonstrated their hybrid hard disk drive, joining Seagate as a provider of these storage devices that can provide performance similar to that of SSD with the storage costs closer to that of hard disk drives.
Due to the lower cost per GB of a 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Archos tablets will offer 250 GB of storage for about the same price as 32 GB of flash memory on a current generation tablet computer.
Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.
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Chanos thinks the disk drive makers will face added pressure from excess supply of digital storage space.
Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.
Thus a 5, 400 RPM HDD can use the flash memory for speeding performance while providing as much as 30% higher storage capacity for a given number of active disk surfaces than a 7, 200 RPM drive.
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If the demand from cloud and network storage was anywhere near close to the projections of some of the bulls on disk drive stocks, EMC stock should have been up over 100% but instead it has languished.
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The combination storage offering will combine 128 GB of NAND flash memory with either a 1 TB or 3 TB hard disk drive (HDD).
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