Marvell Announces HyperDUO SATA Controller for HDD-SSD Hybrids
Marvell Announces HyperDUO SATA Controller for HDD-SSD Hybrids
Posted 01/04/2011 at 7:14am
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Marvell will soon be launching the 88SE9130 6GB/s SATA Controller, a new drive controller that uses its propriety HyperDuo technology to combine an HDD and SSD into a single logical unit, the company said Monday. The SSD-HDD hybrid is apparently much faster than spinning drives as the SSD effectively functions as a cache for the hard drive.
Simply put, this technology works by using the SSD for caching the most frequently used data while keeping the less active data on the hard drive. But to the user the hybrid storage solution always appears as a single volume. This technique of automatically moving data between different storage types based on its frequency of use is called automated tiering and widely used in the enterprise market.
Mobos and add-on cards bearing the 88SE9130 6GB/s SATA Controller are expected to hit the market some time during the first half of 2011.
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whr4usa
January 04, 2011 at 5:34pm
Marvell marketing + MaxPC memory loss == advertising article
Silverstone definitely did this almost 3 years ago (just SATA II since 600 MB\s wasn't yet finalized) with its HDDBoost accessory
Keith E. Whisman
January 04, 2011 at 7:16pm
It still sounds cool and now you can get it built into the motherboard. I'm running an Momentus XT Hybrid drive in my laptop and it's freaking awesome. I can only imagine the performance of one of the faster 100Gig SSD's coupled to a 600GB Velociraptor or one of the newer 2+TB HDD's out there.
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