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Hybrid drives dead on arrival
Hybrid drives have been added to the mountain of technology innovations that worked much better in theory than they did in a real world.
The idea behind a hybrid dride is to add flash memory to a hard drive and reap the benefits: your PC will boot faster and laptops will run longer before requiring a battery recharge.
The idea might have looked good in theory, but is failing to deliver results. Microsoft for one is stalling development of the drivers that are essential for supporting the technology.
On the desktop front, the benefits have shrunken significantly due to the Windows Vista's new deep sleep mode. Even though users think that they are shutting down their systems, they really are putting them into a deep sleep from which it will wake up in mere seconds – much faster than the time that it takes to boot up the application.
Others argue that drive maker merely need to add more memory (but the same story completely overlooks the point that hybrid drives are primarily here for the mobile market).
Fact is that you have wasted you money if you recently purchased a hybrid drive.
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