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I 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?

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I 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.

I'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.

Likewise, 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.

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