WD presents the world thinner hard drive

The first samples are ready for a new generation of disks 2.5'' drive with only 5 mm thick, which use Hybrid technology (magnetic support + flash), WD reported. These new units are designed to be thin enough for integration into the new generation of ultra-thin notebooks and may thus offer a high storage capacity and robustness to while permitting a start and application performance similar the current SSD devices. This new technology was demonstrated in last 13.




“Mobile devices are becoming smaller, thinner, lighter and at the same time, faster”,Matt Rutledge said acting vice president for storage solutions. “By working with its partners, has developed a new WD hard drives 5 mm allowing to combine a huge storage capacity with excellent performance and a great price, which allows our clients expand their product ranges with a minimum thickness. </ em> "- goes ahead.

The truth is that size matters and increasingly manufacturers should be alert to this market demand, hence we are increasingly watch more releases like this, especially in the launch earlier this year with 2.5'' disks 7mm thick, intended especially small-format notebooks where historically thickness usual for discs intended for notebooks is 9.5 mm.

With this release of a thickness as low 5mm, opens the door to a range of devices and laptops thinner and more a capacity of 500 GB which uses nearly 50% less than the volume of generating disks of 9.5 mm previously mentioned. According to the mark, although not yet available, the price per GB which is about 10 times lower than that of SSD drives of similar capacity.

Other brands that have joined in this announcement was the very Acer and Asus:
“Acer has teamed up with WD to offer notebooks with advanced performance and high capacity in the smallest possible format,” said David Lee, associate vice president of Mobile Computing Business Unit of Acer Product.“It is part of our ongoing commitment to provide leading technology improves the overall user experience of our customers.”
“We are seeing a shift in the world of computing to mobile computing solutions more powerful”, said meanwhile SY Shain, senior vice president of business unit of ASUS notebooks. “With that in mind, ASUS and WD are collaborating in creating notebooks and mobile solutions thinner - but without sacrificing power or performance - to provide consumers even more small.”

Hybrid Storage Technology and Client at various levels (Client Tiered Storage)
Hybrid technology combines presented by WD pairs memory MLC NAND flash type with magnetic disks to speed access to Data similar to the SSD and response instant starting, so offer great efficiency and storage capacity. Similar to practice performed in enterprise systems many millions of dollars, WD hybrid technology uses the concept of storage per levels (tiered storage). In such a system, the data accessed more frequently (commonly referred to as hot data) are managed through the NAND flash memory to ensure time fast response, while data access less frequent ( cold day </ i>) reside in robust magnetic disks.

This technology works in conjunction with the PC operating system, for higher performance than current hybrid offerings to while minimizing wear of the NAND allowing the use memory type MLC (Multi Level Cell), at a cost well smaller. hybrid hard drives combine NAND flash disks with Magnetic simplifying the integration of storage elements for OEM customers and offering a range of benefits for end user: superior performance, responsiveness, lower energy consumption, increased tolerance to shocks in operation and data protection.