Samsung and Microsoft co-develop a hybrid memory system which combined a hard drive and flash memory, the company said.

The aim is to combine the fast read/write access times of NAND flash with the storage capacity of a rotating hard drive.

By using the 1Gbit flash as a cache for the hard drive, the drive does not need to spin continuously. When the write buffer is full, the drive is spun up and data written to magnetic storage.

Boot up times can also be reduced, claimed the companies, by using the flash as a boot buffer during shut-down.

Microsoft calls the device a hybrid hard drive (HHD). It is designed to work with Longhorn, the next generation of Windows.

By: DocMemory
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