Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Objective Analysis
Published: December 2007
Product Code: R3518-3Description Hybrid Disk Drives, the combination of a standard hard disk drive and a NAND chip, are a budding phenomenon enabled by new features of Micrsoft's Windows Vista operating system. This technology promises to sweep the PC hard drive market. Objective Analysis' Hybrid Disk Drive study will explain the technology, its potential market, competing technologies, and how the NAND market, the PC market, and the HDD market will all be impacted by this new twist on an old technology.
Table of Contents - Executive Summary
- What is a Hybrid Hard Disk Drive?
- Elements of a Standard HDD
- The DRAM Cache
- Limitations of DRAM Caches
- A NAND Alternative
- NAND’s Nonvolatile Advantage
- NAND’s Price Advantage
- NAND as a Cache for the HDD
- Intel’s Turbo Memory Alternative
- SanDisk’s Vaulter Disk
- Benefits of the Hybrid HDD
- Power Consumption
- Access Speed
- Reliability
- Shock Tolerance
- Where the Truth Lies
- The Role of Software Support
- Why a Cache Needs Software Support
- The “Instant-On” Myth
- Issues with Legacy
- Why will Support Take so Long to Materialize?
- Alternatives to Hybrid Drives
- Solid State Drives
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Standard HDDs
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- DRAM Write Caches
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Increased DRAM Main Memory
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Cost Implications of NAND Disk Caches
- How NAND Costs will Add to HDD Costs
- Consumer Reaction to Costs of Alternatives
- Net Benefit to the NAND Market
- HDD Makers’ Plans
- Devices Currently Introduced
- Samsung
- Seagate
- Fujitsu
- Hitachi
- Toshiba
- Western Digital
- Expectations for the Future
- What Happens Next?
- Near-Term Expectations
- Software Changes and Their Impact
- A Forecast for Hybrid HDD Shipments
- The Impact of Hybrid Drives on the NAND Market
- Summary
- Methodology
- Figures
- Tables
- Author
- Jim Handy
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