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This the the acronym Seagate uses for solid state hybrid drives - http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/solutions/solid-state-hybrid/ http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/soluti
by kirian 10y ago
This the the acronym Seagate uses for solid state hybrid drives - http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/solutions/solid-state-hybrid/ http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/solutions/solid-state-hybrid/
I don't think Backblaze uses any of these so likely they've just pulled a stock photo of a hard drive from somewhere.
- DKnoll 10y agoI know what they mean, but the initialism has another well known use so it's annoying. Not to mention that a device being solid state by definition precludes it from being a hard disk. Logically it just makes no sense to me. shakes fist get off my lawn!
- jimminy 10y agoTo clarify what dknoll is talking about: 'sshd' is the reference command to the 'ssh daemon'. To dknoll, SSHD for the Solid State Hybrid Disk, means that it has components of both drive systems, spinning platters and a functional amount of NAND for feequently used applications. You could use it purely for it's SSD assuming the drive controller continues to function. Though that is a ridiculous proposal.
- DKnoll 10y agoI understand what the device does and why they named it as they did. It's an awkward use of language, that's all I'm pointing out. I think 'Solid State Hybrid Disk' is a syntaxically incorrect name as it suggests the entire device is solid state when it is not. Hybrid State Disk perhaps?
- jimminy 10y agoI read it as "Solid State Hybrid" -Disk. Which when regarded under the conventional drives at the time it was announced being primarily HDD's it makes it more clear. You have an HDD that is a hybrid with solid state components. Logically clean cut, imo.
- DKnoll 10y agoI'm being super pedantic here, but see how you said hybrid before solid state in your third sentence when explaining it? That's basically what I just suggested would be a clearer name.
- jimminy 10y agoLikewise, I'm being pedantic. Hybrid disk would be the generic term. There has been work on liquid-state storage. So Solid State becomes the adjective modifier for providing the classification of the type of Hybrid Disk. You could in theory have a Liquid State Hybrid Disk, or a Liquid Solid State Hybrid Drive.
- the_duke 10y agoThey are very different domains though, reading the whole sentence mentioning SSHD is probably enough to determine which one of the two is talked about...
- DKnoll 10y ago"Hey, did you spin up an SSHD on that new box?" "Can you bounce the SSHD?"