This is pretty cool news; Mark Hachman reported on ExtremeTech that Samsung started shipping its MH80 2.5-inch hyrbrid drives for notebook PCs to OEMs. The drives come in 80GB, 120GB, and 160GB capacities with either 128MB or 256MB of onboard flash memory for caching.

Mark writes: "Acording to Samsung, its MH80 drives feature Samsung's 'ReadyBoot' (not ReadyBoost) technology that offers up to a 50 percent reduction in boot and resume times from traditional magnetic hard drives. In addition, the drive consumes 70-90 percent less power than a traditional hard drive, which extends the battery life by 30 minutes before a recharge is needed, the company said." Check out the whole story on the Samsung MH80 drives here.