No, that's not quite what I was referring to. This article describes it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive
"A hybrid drive, a.k.a. Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD), is a new type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it employs a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache data during normal use. By primarily using this large buffer for non-volatile data storage, the platters of the hard drive are at rest almost all of the time, instead of constantly spinning as they are in current hard drives. This offers numerous benefits, chief among them speed, decreased power consumption, improved reliability, and a faster boot process."
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axmaus
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April 28th, 2007 21:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive
"A hybrid drive, a.k.a. Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD), is a new type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it employs a large buffer (up to 1 GB) of non-volatile flash memory to cache data during normal use. By primarily using this large buffer for non-volatile data storage, the platters of the hard drive are at rest almost all of the time, instead of constantly spinning as they are in current hard drives. This offers numerous benefits, chief among them speed, decreased power consumption, improved reliability, and a faster boot process."