MacBook Pro And “Paired Storage”

ZNet blogger David Morgenstern says that one hot topic in data storage right now is paired storage, or the combined use of an HDD (hard disk drive) and SSD (solid-state drive), aka a flash drive. A third-party upgrade kit lets owners of the MacBook Pro give this advanced storage architecture a spin.

One hot topic in storage right now is paired storage, or the combined use of an HDD (hard disk drive) and SSD (solid-state drive), aka a flash drive. A third-party upgrade kit lets owners of the MacBook Pro utilize this advanced mode of storage – not to be confused with hybrid hard drive technology. A hybrid drive integrates a flash data storage module supplementing the primary HDD media, while paired storage uses separate flash and hard disk drives simultaneously, addressing the lower speed performance associated with using just HDDs and the lower data storage capacities found in higher-performing SSDs.

Morgenstern cites a joint report released last week by storage analysts Tom Coughlin and Jim Handy of Coughlin Associates and Objective Analysis on paired storage entitled “HDDs and Flash Memory: A Marriage of Convenience,” noting that according to the authors’ projections, the paired storage market will grow to 328 million units by 2016 to be found in 53 percent of desktop computers and in 25 percent of notebooks, plus the emergence of a new category of “fat tablets” that will also incorporate paired storage.

Morgenstern notes thst Other World Computing offers its OWC Data Doubler kit for the MacBook Pro, enabling users to swap out the optical drive and replace it with either a second HDD or a SSD.

You can read David Morgenstern’s report here:
http://zd.net/eUQZqp

The Coughlin/Handy report is here in PDF format:
http://bit.ly/e3CoHY

Objective Analysis:
http://www.Objective-Analysis.com