Hybrid HDD in OCZ mode

With the advent of SSDs, OCZ has become one of the largest manufacturers of storage technology with this technology. Now they have developed a competitor to the Momentus XT based on their own model.

The HHD (Hybrid Hard Drive) it's very practical, as we don't really have to give up the benefits of either type of drive, so it's understandable that success is guaranteed from the start. However, the sales figures for the Seagate Momentus XT still surprised analysts and the manufacturer. More than a million copies have been sold since its release. Hybrid storage itself is about quasi-integrating a large HDD and a relatively inexpensive, small SSD, so you need a nifty control chip. The controller monitors the HDD and moves frequently used smaller files to the SSD, so the system keeps speeding up. Not all files are transferred to the SSD because it takes into account not only the frequency of opening but also the size of the file.

The first commercially available HHD was introduced by Samsung at the time, mainly into laptops, as it was launched as an OEM, it combined only a 160GB HDD and a 256MB SSD, and had many goals beyond acquiring Vista. Premium certification. Later, Seagate also followed Samsung. At that time, they could not account for anything other than a nasty fall, there was simply little development for SSDs at that time. Years later, Seagate dusted off the technology and the Momentus XT was born, where the 5400 rpm of its predecessors was replaced by 7200 rpm, and the storage capacity of NAND chips increased from 256 MB to 4 GB. Its price cannot be said to be cheap, but it is selling well, unlike its predecessors, this time the manufacturer posted a success.

OCZ’s HHD, on the other hand, takes the technology to the next level and connects to PCI-e instead of a SATA interface. Its speed is surpassed, its bandwidth can reach up to 910 MB / s, and in addition to 4 kB files, it can reach 120 IOPS. Dataplex ™ cache management software is responsible for keeping the HDD SSD in proper synchronization, enabling it to assess user habits to the maximum and thus achieve the right performance. And what hasn’t been talked about so far, this time we’re getting a 000TB-sized conventional hard drive with even a large 1GB SSD engineered by OCZ engineers, and there will also be a smaller racer that could already be a real opponent of the Seagate HHD , it combines a 100GB HDD and a 500GB SSD to form an extremely fast HHD. The price of the smaller contestant is still unknown, with the bigger brother going to the stores at a suggested retail price of $ 60, which is just peppered, but there will be no reason to complain.

Source: OCZ