14 DAY TRIAL // Hard drives are the established mainstream and enterprise storage solutions, because of their high reliability and storage space, but solid state drives have been growing in popularity thanks to their very high read and write speeds. Still, such devices are not yet seen as superior to HDDs because their storage capacities are significantly lower, as is their reliability. As such, it makes sense that companies would somehow want to get the best of both. Taking a step in this direction, Raidon has developed an HDD/SSD combo drive, known as the HyBrid Disk.
According to a Raidon representative, Macworld reports, the SSD and HDD are not set up in an RAID 1 configuration, not in a real sense at least. Instead of writing the data on both drives at the same time, the HyBrid supposedly has only the solid state drive actually interfacing with the host PC.
Data is written and read off it as one would read off any storage unit, while the hard drive only communicates with the SSD and backs up the data on it at scheduled intervals. As such, if the SSD should fail, whatever data was on it can be recovered from the HDD.
The representative also reportedly stated that the SSD could be used even without the HyBrid. It can be removed and either internally connected to a computer or placed inside a drive enclosure. Regardless of how it is used, however, when placed back inside the HyBrid, the HDD will automatically perform the intended backup tasks.
The manufacturer has not yet decided upon the storage capabilities of the drives that will be part of the HyBrid Disk and, as such, there is not a word on pricing at this time. Still, Raidon could, at least, provide the media with the intended launch dates. An internal version of the HyBrid Disk will debut in April, with an external case scheduled for later on this year.