Seagate predicts the coming of hybrid hard drives

In a contemporary interview, a representative from Seagate stated that the long run of harddisk technology lies within the so-called “hybrid” technology. Accordingly, “hybrid” refers to the theorem of using a flash memory buffer to increase the read/write speed, without increasing the RPM.

Seagate actually has developed this sort of new hybrid drives, the 2.5-inch Momentus, and the rep from Seagate said that they’re already experiencing high demand for the recent technology. Seagate acknowledges that SSD drives still have some benefits over the hybrid technology, but the value per gigabyte could help the hot technology take over 80% of the market by 2015. For sure, in 5 years, there can be some other storage technology we’ll all be talking about.

[via XbitLabs]