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HyBrid Disk From Raidon, New Storage Idea
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Tue, March 9th, 2010
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It combines one SSD backuped on one HDD with RAID-1.
HyBrid Disk equipped with RAIDON Technology, Inc.'s RAID 1 technology, which combines the best of MLC SSD and HDD together, enabling the HDD to possess the SSD high-speed transfer rates by replacing the data access of your front end HDD space with a backend of MLC SSD, it’s the best of both technologies.
Here’s how it works: the HDD will be used to do normal scheduled backup of the SSD in order to prevent any potential data loss caused by an SSD failure; with the HDD saving your SSD data to HDD sectors storing any relevant information. With the HyBrid Disk you have SSD performance with the HDD storage capacity.
This product allows flexibility to be used between 2 workstations for instance, if you want to use your SSD in the field offsite, upon returning to your home workstation, simply insert the SSD into the Hybrid Disk and the data will be automatically backed up. If in the event that your SSD is damaged, the HyBrid Disk will be able to recover the original SSD data which was stored in the HDD.
The benefits of the Hybrid disk:
- SSD high-speed data access.
- Automatic scheduled backup of the SSD to HDD (with flexible schedule setup) which ensures SSD data security.
- The SSD is portable and can be easily carried while working offsite; and your
- data will be backed up to HDD when SSD is inserted back.
- When any SSD failure occurs, the data can be easily recovered from the backed up HDD.
Application as follows:
Our comments :
The term 'hybrid drive' was formerly used by Samsung and Seagate a for
an HDD unit integrating a small capacity of flash memory as a cache.
But this idea was not finally successful.
Here it's a new different architecture: a RAID-1 where the data on the removable SSD are automatically mirrored on an HDD. Two SSDs can be backup up as the capacity of the HDD is twice more than the flash device.
What's curious here is that generally SSDs are supposed to be more reliable than HDDs but their content is protected here on the mechanical device.
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