Hybrid disk drives sucked admits Samsung Semiconductor Storage director Hubbert Smith
A year and a half after being the first to launch hybrid disk drives, Samsung finally comes out with the truth: they sucked!
The technology that combines a conventional hard disk drive and on-board Flash non-volatile memory just didn’t deliver the over-hyped performance it promised.
But the main culprit was not necessarily the hard disk drive makers like Samsung or Seagate but Microsoft that did not deliver in its promise to support the technology in its Windows operating systems.
“The data that arrived on the hybrid drive was randomly stored on the Flash or the disk drive. It was a mess,” admitted Hubbert Smith, the director of enterprise storage marketing for Samsung Semiconductor, speaking at yesterday’s IDEMA storage symposium.
Next generation hybrid drives should significantly perform better
Just last month, at Microsoft’s WinHEC hardware conference, Seagate unveiled its next generation of hybrid drives with on-board controllers that intelligently and automatically cache the data on the Flash memory, mentioned Smith. These new drives will no more require any special drivers or software and will work with Microsoft Windows but also Mac OS and Linux computers.
Smith did not comment on the availability of similar hybrid drives from Samsung. But in any case, be prepare to always pay the price of the first adopting a new technology and eventually get “screwed”. There’s a good reason why it is called the “bleeding” edge!
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