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Old Jul 15, 2006, 10:49pm Default Faster Memory Based Hard Drive
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Hitachi has come up with a faster memory-based Hard Drive hybrid aimed at embedded applications.

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Hitachi ULSI has combined NAND flash and DRAM memory to produce a fast replacement for optomechanical hard drives. According to nikkei.net, its existing NAND storage devices only have an access speed of 33MB/s, but a breakthrough will speed that up by a factor of three.
The report said that devices will be available this time next year in sizes up to 32GB but the devices will be expensive - as much as ¥100,000 (~$860). But Hitachi will be targeting the embedded market and specific applications, not you, me and the world+dog.
The drives work by storing data to DRAM and then to NAND flash using a proprietary design which uses far less blocks of data.
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Old Jul 16, 2006, 08:35am Default Re: Faster Memory Based Hard Drive
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Wow, that's an increadible access rate!
It'll be interesting to see who build devices with these things.
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Old Jul 17, 2006, 10:40am Default Re: Faster Memory Based Hard Drive
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Sounds good. To bad my pockets won't be deep enough when they come out. But should be able to pick one up later on
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