Seagate was also showing a 1 TB 2.5-inch hybrid drive that was 9.5mm thick and with a 32 GB flash cache.
The flash cache is used to store frequently accessed data providing the fast data response found in solid state drives while the hard disk storage provides low cost storage.
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Write caching would store data to be written on the HDD in flash memory initially until enough data was in the flash cache to do an efficient write to the HDD disks.
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While flash memory in a separate smaller capacity SSD module is playing a role in these new ultra-thin computers the introduction of hybrid hard disk drives with a flash cache inside the hard drive may plan a significant role as well.
The Momentus XT drives include a flash memory cache inside of the hard disk drive.
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Drobo and other companies announced that they are including SSDs in their storage products as a caching tier showing that flash-based cache is moving into the SMB market.
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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Flash memory as a cache for HDD arrays is a popular application in enterprise environments.
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Flash memory offers fast ways to cache and serve up digital content to support high usage virtual machine environments.
If flash falls to magnetic memory, cache will fall with it, because MRAM could replace both kinds of memory in cell phones.
If flash falls to magnetic memory, cache will fall right with it because MRAM could replace both kinds of memory in cell phones.
The top layer is a 48 GB cache for organizing the writing of data for better utilization of the flash memory in the other layers.
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Automatica creates a local cache of your contents and stores 24 hours of audio within the internal flash memory.
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