Hybrid Hard Disk Drive

Hybrid Hard Disk Drives are about the hit the market. Hybrid Hard Drives or HHD use either 125M Bytes or 256M Bytes of Flash memory as a cache to speed data thru-put. HHD devices are also set up to spin down the platter to save power as the data is only retrieved from the Flash memory.

Normally Hard Disk Drives only have a maximum of 16M Bytes of cache memory, so HHD come with at least 7 times more memory.

I don't list any manufacturers for Hybrid Hard Drives yet, but I'll start adding them as they come to market. I would assume that HHD devices will have an SATA interface.