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750GB Solid State Drive for $145

1 pointsby jayemdee3about 13 years ago

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tosseraccountabout 13 years ago
Doesn't actually appear to be a Solid State Drive. It appears to be a HDD with a solid state cache. <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi...</a> : Simply put a Hybrid HDD is a mechanical drive with some NAND flash on it that is automatically used by the drive to store data for quicker access. A hybrid drive really just attempts to do what my setup of two drives (SSD + HDD) does manually: put small, frequently used data on NAND flash and put larger, less frequently used data on platters.