"HyDrive" in which SSD and optical drive are united appears, realizing high-speed driving and miniaturization of notebook personal computers

"Hybrid disk" which integrated HDD which is widely used as recording media from old days and SSD using flash memory appeared in February, but this time SSD and optical drive are united "HyDrive"Has appeared.

With the optical drive and SSD becoming one, we succeeded in greatly compacting it, and in addition to expectation for miniaturization of the laptop computer, a movie proving that realizing very high performance is also released It is.

Details are as below.
Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS), today announced HyDrive, the world's first solid state drive (SSD) embedded ODD.

According to this release, Hitachi LG Data Storage, a joint venture between Hitachi and LG Electronics, will release "HyDrive", which is the world's first optical drive and SSD.

"HyDrive" is built in the family computer for "MN 102 - O" of MONEUAL, which will be released in August 2010. Beginning mass production in March 2011, OEM (production by counterpart brand) It is said to be provided at.

Although the first generation "HyDrive" is a 32 GB and 64 GB model supporting the 3 Gbps serial ATA interface, the second generation model manufactured in line with the start of mass production in March 2011 is a 6 Gbps serial ATA It supports the interface, it is said that up to 256 GB models will emerge.

Incidentally, since the SSD installed in "HyDrive" can be used not only as a boot drive for Windows or as a data storage drive but also as a cache for optical drives, it will be enough to mount a single "HyDrive" on a notebook computer As a result, we can realize miniaturization of laptop computer with optical drive which was difficult to realize until now.

In addition, on the page called "MysteryDrive" that was established in conjunction with the announcement of "HyDrive", a comparison between a drive of a conventional model and "HyDrive" has been done, and it is now possible to check its skill with a movie I will.
MysteryDrive


DVD loading experiment. Try inserting a slightly scratched movie disc that takes a long time to load into the old drive.


I'm playing a movie. In most cases, even if the disc is damaged to some extent, it can be reproduced by performing error correction, but error correction can not catch up in real time and it will not work.


It then changed to HyDrive.


This is "HyDrive".


Since the contents of the disk are read and played as cache in the SSD beforehand, it is possible to play back smoothly because it can take time to correct the error.


Next, when using "HyDrive" as the startup drive. The left is HDD mounted model, right is "HyDrive" loaded model.


It only has SSD and it starts up at high speed.


The startup is finished in about 28 seconds, while the conventional model with the HDD is finally starting around 50 seconds has elapsed.


Multitask experiment to launch multiple applications at once


For the HyDrive-equipped PC that launched all the applications in just 6 seconds, the HDD model will be delayed.


Of course the results are the same in the game.


For the model with "HyDrive" already launched the game, the HDD model finally shows the logo.


In an interview that former editor went to SanDisk, a major flash memory company,Unlike HDDs, SSDs can be made in various shapes and thicknesses, which is a major meritAlthough it was said, it is very interesting that SSD can be loaded without changing the shape of the optical drive.