Seagate Technology plc this week announced it will begin shipping its third-generation of solid-state hybrid drives (SSHD), designed for increasingly thin and lightweight laptops. PC makers Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Dell plan to incorporate the drives into their new products.
Seagate claims the drives are 40 percent faster than prior generations and can add as much as 30 percent to total system performance independent of the system’s processor. The laptop SSHD’s will provide up to 1TB of capacity.
“Seagate’s SSHD technology reinforces our focus on delivering the most reliable PC solutions in the industry,” said Kirk Schell, vice president, commercial PC group, Dell. “Dell plans to incorporate Seagate technology across an array of our next-generation products so our customers can benefit from the quality, performance, responsiveness and increased capacity these SSHD’s can provide.”
The drives use Seagate’s Adaptive Memory technology to identify and store only the most critical data a system needs to go fast. The Seagate Desktop SSHD will cost slightly more than a standard hard drive, the company said.
