According to two storage specialists, by 2016, there will be 25% of notebooks and half of desktop systems will adopt new data storage methods to match flash memory and traditional hard drives to improve overall performance. The cost of flash with hard drives is also lower than competitive SSDs.
Both Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, and Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that while SSDs are quieter, faster, and more shock-resistant, due to relatively high prices, hard drives will dominate the PC market for the next few years.
NAND flash memory is currently the main memory chip within the iPhone, iPad and SSD, it can provide cache and cache layer between the hard disk and higher performance DRAM memory. The use of flash memory will become more and more important as there is an increasing "performance gap" between DRAM and rotating storage such as hard disks. Additional cache will reduce the pressure on the hard disk to provide temporary storage space. This arrangement can also reduce system power consumption.
"This approach will not replace hard drives. Flash memory will allow customers to keep low-cost drives while enjoying near-SSD performance," the report said. "The amount of flash memory it needs is not large, so users are enjoying The advantage does not need to pay the expensive price at the same time." "Paired Storage" refers to the hybrid flash memory chip and the hard disk, but it has already been used in data centers and high performance computing operations.
Currently there are many ways to adopt, including the use of hybrid hardware and flash memory on the motherboard. Only Seagate is now producing hybrid hard drives, but analysts expect most hard drive manufacturers will follow suit.
Analysts also expect that this innovation will lead to the launch of new tablet PCs, which is the most popular consumer product this year. This new device, tentatively called "fat tablet", will combine flash memory with hard disks because existing tablets lack the powerful functions that business people and some users require. Analysts predict that by 2016, 40% of the tablet PC market will be "fat tablets."
Both Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, and Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that while SSDs are quieter, faster, and more shock-resistant, due to relatively high prices, hard drives will dominate the PC market for the next few years.
NAND flash memory is currently the main memory chip within the iPhone, iPad and SSD, it can provide cache and cache layer between the hard disk and higher performance DRAM memory. The use of flash memory will become more and more important as there is an increasing "performance gap" between DRAM and rotating storage such as hard disks. Additional cache will reduce the pressure on the hard disk to provide temporary storage space. This arrangement can also reduce system power consumption.
"This approach will not replace hard drives. Flash memory will allow customers to keep low-cost drives while enjoying near-SSD performance," the report said. "The amount of flash memory it needs is not large, so users are enjoying The advantage does not need to pay the expensive price at the same time." "Paired Storage" refers to the hybrid flash memory chip and the hard disk, but it has already been used in data centers and high performance computing operations.
Currently there are many ways to adopt, including the use of hybrid hardware and flash memory on the motherboard. Only Seagate is now producing hybrid hard drives, but analysts expect most hard drive manufacturers will follow suit.
Analysts also expect that this innovation will lead to the launch of new tablet PCs, which is the most popular consumer product this year. This new device, tentatively called "fat tablet", will combine flash memory with hard disks because existing tablets lack the powerful functions that business people and some users require. Analysts predict that by 2016, 40% of the tablet PC market will be "fat tablets."