If one hybrid drive wasn’t enough for you this week, Hitachi and LG are planning to show off their HyDrive ODD/SSD combo unit at Computex on Monday. While at this point the drive is just a concept, the tandem has loaded up several videos showing how 32GB or 64GB of NAND coupled with the optical drive can do all sorts of wonders for your notebook.
If one hybrid drive wasn’t enough for you this week, Hitachi and LG are planning to show off their HyDrive ODD/SSD combo unit at Computex on Monday. While at this point the drive is just a concept, the tandem has loaded up several videos showing how 32GB or 64GB of NAND coupled with the optical drive can do all sorts of wonders for your notebook.
The set of three videos on MysteryDrive.net show the NAND paired with the optical drive booting Vista 20 seconds faster, improving playback of a scratched DVD and speedy video game loads.
The practicality of such a combo drive may be debatable, as we remove ourselves from optical disk usage more and more every day, but even so, there are definitely benefits to be had. It remains to be seen if this concept will become anything more however, and if it does come to market, whether or not users will see enough value to pay a premium for the extra flash memory.
