Samsung Launches High Performance SoC for Hybrid Drive

By Niladri Sekhar Nath

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Samsung has designed a new system-on-chip (SoC) solution for its hybrid drive. Samsung (News - Alert) claims that its latest SoC supports up to 4Gb flash memory as a data buffer.

According to a press release, the system-on-chip solution is capable of getting the most out of the ‘disk spindle down’ mode and decreasing power consumption levels up to 80 percent.

The SoC is superior compared to conventional HDD (hard disk drive). The company says that the solution supports the initial boot from the OneNAND as well. Thus, it plays a key role in reducing the overall boot time by over 10 seconds.


Samsung has been able to come up with such an advanced system-on-chip solution for its hybrid drive thanks to effective collaboration among various business divisions such as Memory, System LSI and Storage.

Samsung says that it will start mass-producing the SoC in November.

For more information visit www.samsung.com.

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Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking.