CES 2015 is about to pull off the curtain, and in the 4-5 days before that, there is also a storage industry event storage Visions 2015, Las Vegas in Las Vegas.
The Western data announced that the world's fastest hybrid hard drive will be shown at this conference, with performance comparable to solid-state drives!
The West indicates that they have completed the prototype of the new disk, using the new PCI-E SATA Express Interface (theoretical bandwidth 10Gbps), the mechanical part capacity of the highest 4TB, the flash memory part of the largest 128GB, but the site will be shown 64GB.
At the time, the West will be the number of Chinese-engine, gigabyte, ASUS and other motherboards to provide support, they have SATA Express interface.
A data map given by the West, with Asus Z97-A, Core i5 3.4GHz, their 4TB hybrid hard drive can get 4459 points in PCMark 8, already comparable to a number of mainstream solid-state drives, and compared to the west of the previous mixed hard disk score has increased by more than 1000, Compared to the ordinary mechanical hard drive is a full 80% higher.
Mixed hard drive has always been "non-mainstream", SATA Express interface has just begun to show the support strength is also very general, so the price of this product is bound to be very high, but the West number, according to the unit capacity of the price calculation, it will and the previous mixed hard drive flat.
According to the figures on the map, the disk needs more than $200.