Recently we have turned your attention to hybrid HDD, now the hardware developers made the next step: hybrid between optic drive and SSD. The novelty is introduced by Hitachi-LG Data Storage and is based on HyDrive optic disk with incorporated flash memory.

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The idea of HyDrive is to have a small device with big potential in data storage and system performance. It could be considered as alternative to standard SSD devices and even of HDD in notebooks and nettops.

The first generation of HyDrive will have 32 or 64 GB memory and will be available in August. The plans for the next year includes models with 256 GB memory.