Hybrid hard drives stalled by software, firm says
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The highly promoted hybrid hard drive will not make a big splash in 2008, according to Los Gatos, Calif.-based market research firm Objective Analysis, but once all the kinks are ironed out, hybrid drives and their counterparts should sweep the market.
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Solid-state drives: HDD replacements? Huge disappointments? Neither.
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While the tit-for-tat over the relative merits of and prospects for traditional hard-disk drives versus flash-memory-based SSDs (solid-state drives) continues, our expert weighs in with a more pragmatic assessment. Economic and technical factors mean the two storage formats are more likely to coexist and thrive in specific niches.
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Replacing hard-disk drives with solid state: A challenging but opportune prospect for vendors
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Falling NAND prices and improved controllers could make SSDs a viable option in mainstream computers. But the storage still faces obstacles to rapid adoption, including lack of interface designs robust enough to handle and prioritize data processing in PCs, as well as a crowded vendor market.
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