Hybrid hard drive due for this month?

We first heard about Samsung’s and Microsoft’s hybrid hard drive (HHD) over a year ago at last WinHEC 2005, and according to the Korea Times it would appear that after a year of waiting for the drive (and the operating system intended to run it — Vista), it will be launched at this year’s WinHEC. The world has yet to see what adding a 128MB buffer solid state storage area to a hard drive will offer in terms of performance and battery life when used in conjunction with Microsoft’s Windows ReadyDrive (i.e. sleep / hibernation quick boot and suspend support), but we’re all waiting with bated breath because anything to start moving us away from this whole spinning hard drive thing is fine by us, thanks.

[The Inq]