Comments on: Storage giants to push hybrid hard drives

Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu and Toshiba partner to promote combo of flash chips and magnetic platters. But where is Western Digital?

[thanhvn]

an additional $600 ?!

and here i was thinking more like $100 or $200. how much flash memory are they talking about here? $600 can buy a lot of flash memory. at least 100 GB, i think. does laptop hard drives need a 100 GB of fast buffer?

[Aardasp]

Exactly!

Even for early adopters; I would think that $600 for (ONLY!) 32Gb and 40% less HD power usage is more than a bit unreasonable!!

[bcsaxman]

Relax you guys ...

"SanDisk announced earlier on Thursday that it has developed a hard drive based solely on flash chips, which will add $600 to the cost of a laptop."

"... a hard drive based solely on flash chips ... will add $600 to the cost of the laptop ..."

"... hard drive based solely on flash chips ... $600 ..."

Get it now? Read more carefully - this wasn't even close to being hidden info.

[ashgilpincom]

$600?

That's a lot of money. I'll wait on these babies to drop in price.


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[alek_nedic]

That's a lot of money

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