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Marvell's HyperDuo (photos)

Marvell's HyperDuo hybrid storage solution allows for meshing a hard drive and a solid-state drive together to create a high-speed high-capacity storage system.

Dong Ngo
CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He now manages CNET San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D printers, networking/storage devices, and also writes about other topics from online security to new gadgets and how technology impacts the life of people around the world.
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Marvell's public demo of the HyperDuo hybrid storage solution at CES 2011.
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The controller as seen here has two SATA ports to support a solid-state drive and a hard drive.
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A 256GB Micron RealSSD SSD drive and a 1TB hard drive that supports 6Gbps SATA interface are used for the demo.
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The whole system is similar to that of a normal desktop computer that has two separate drives.
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The demo shows the read and write speeds of the solution: around 350MBps for reading and 210MBps for writing.
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The BIOS interface of the controller card, which allows users to switch between Capacity and Safe modes.
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Hardware components that support the HyperDuo solution from third-party vendors.

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