Thursday 7 March 2013
Most of hybrid hard drives (SSHD) are found in laptops and Ultrabooks, offering more storage capacity than a solid state drive (SSD), but without the slower boot time of a traditional spinning hard drive or the higher cost of a pure SSD.
Seagate just announced it is shipping a new line of hybrid drives just for desktops, along with several larger capacity SSHDs for laptops.
Seagate Desktop SSHD will offer as much as 2TB of storage plus 8GB of flash memory, boosting your PC’s start up time without sacrificing on capacity.
Seagate said that it “will perform up to 4 times faster” than traditional hard drives “ regardless of the CPU inside.”
On laptops Seagate SSHD are five times faster than a standard 5400RPM HD wich allows you to start your Windows 8 laptop in less than 10 seconds.
Expected price for Seagate SSHD would be somewhere between standard hard drives and solid state drives.
