Hybrid Ultrabook Drives To Undercut Pure SSD Solutions In Price, Capacity

The Register’s Chris Mellor cites storage industry research firm TrendFocus saying Ultrabooks will increasingly use hybrid disk drives for their near-SSD speed, HDD capacity and ability to undercut pure SSD Ultrabook prices, with storage drive industry heavyweight Seagate predicting that hybrid drives will eventually enter every part of its product portfolio.

According to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers, says Mellor, TrendFocus researchers project Ultrabooks using thin – 7mm thick – 2.5-inch, hybrid drives, HDDs with a flash cache, to get near-SSD speed while still having much greater capacity than an SSD along with a lower price, with Seagate’s next HHDD possibly arriving later this quarter or in the third quarter, with competing products from WD/Hitachi GST and Toshiba coming by year-end.

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