This Hybrid Memory Cube is achieved through massive parallel interconnection of the DRAM memory cells.
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The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has been almost too patient in developing a standard for for its eponymous technology -- efforts began 17 months ago -- but it at last has more than good intentions to show for its work.
Nowadays, all leading laptop manufacturers are offering laptops with a hybrid HDD-SSD primary memory and high-end, high-performance laptops with complete SSD memory.
These approaches can combine a smaller SSD that stores the operating system and applications and a larger HDD that is used for user data, or a hybrid HDD that has flash memory inside a HDD that is used to store frequently accessed data on the flash with less used data kept available on the HDD.
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So far Seagate is the only company making hybrid HDDs today that combine flash memory and a HDD.
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According to the 2011 HDDs and Flash Memory: A Marriage of Convenience Report from Coughlin Associates and Objective Analysis by 2016 we could see as much as 40% of the tablet market using HDDs (possibly in association with flash memory to provide a hybrid storage solution see figure 2 in the attachment).
Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
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.
While there will be some all flash computers, buying a useful amount of storage capacity at an affordable cost for most users will require combining flash memory with HDDs, either as a hybrid HDD or in a dual storage configuration.
The company has introduced products for this industry before but it appears that the time is right for these products as well as hybrid HDDs (HDDs that contain some cache flash memory for frequently used data) to become wide-spread in computer architectures.
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Seagate had a technology demonstration at their hotel suite in the CES where they were showing a 7mm thick 2.5-inch hybrid drive with 500 GB HDD and 32 GB flash memory capacity.
There's 4GB of memory and a 128GB SDD in all three, while the hybrid bucks the trend by offering a removable battery, with both the faster Core i5 and the Core i7 models coming with an extra cell bundled in.
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Thus flash memory in ultra thin notebook computers will be most popular ether incorporated into a hybrid HDD (such as those offered by Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) or as a dual storage device configuration where the OS and applications are stored on a small SSD and user data is stored on a HDD.
Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are shipping hybrid HDDs targeted for the ultra-thin mobile computer market with up to 8 GB of flash memory and 1 TB hard disk storage.
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