Hybrid Hard Disks and Beyond
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The term ‘hybrid hard drive’ must sound more like a sci-fi than an actual type of hard disk. But no, there really is such a thing…
Last Tuesday, IDEMA hosted a symposium in entitled “HDD Dynamics: Interfaces, Electronics, Architecture, and Reliability”. IDEMA, which stands for International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association, is a trade association representing 340 companies from the $30 billion disk drive industry. At the event we attended, representatives from Adaptec, Agere Systems, Broadcom, Hitachi GST, Intel, M-Systems, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital were given the opportunity to speak on issues such as emerging interfaces, new electronic designs and integration, sector architecture, and reliability testing. [Read the rest]