Seagate unveils what it says is the world's fastest hard drive, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD

Combines capacity of a HDD with solid state flash for high speed performance

STORAGE VENDOR Seagate has unveiled what it says is the world's fastest hard drive, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD.

In what Seagate claims is the industry's first enterprise solid-state hybrid disk (SSHD) drive, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with solid-state flash enabling high-speed performance for "mission critical data".

Seagate said the drive is the fastest storage device around due to its triple increase in random read performance over existing 15,000RPM drives. It will be available in up to 600GB capacities.

"By unifying the best of solid-state and magnetic technologies, Turbo improves tiered storage performance combining accelerated speed with hard disk drive (HDD) high capacity," Seagate said in a statement.

"The result, a combination of performance and capacity that we believe represents a new paradigm shift for mission critical, enterprise storage."