Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL)’s launch event on Tuesday,
though ostensibly for the iPad Mini, also saw a host of other devices being
unveiled by the company.
One of the interesting which came up was the Fusion
Drive, which combines the high performance of the NAND flash with the storage
capacity of a hard disk drive.
The Fusion Drive will be installed in the new iMac and
Mac Mini desktops, which it unveiled yesterday. Apple said that its operating
system and the pre-installed applications will run on SSD by default while the
documents and media will run on the HDD.
The storage capacity of the Fusion Drive will be
either 1 terra byte or 3 TB but has been cleverly designed so that it appears
as a single storage volume. Combined with the storage capacity of 128 GB of the
NAND flash drive this gives Apple a definite edge ahead of the competition.
According to Apple the fusion drive's performance is
similar to that a pure solid state drive but with the mass storage capacity and
the lower costs associated with a HDD.
According to Tech World, "based on the amount of
flash capacity offered by Apple, industry analysts do not believe the Fusion
Drive is a hybrid drive, which combines flash and spinning disk in a hard drive
form factor."
Apple's Fusion Drive most likely comes from its
purchase of Anobit, which it acquired in 2011, while the HDD is sourced from
Seagate.
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