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This seems a bit like electric lights and horn on my horse-drawn buggy. Nice, but making my buggy like an actual automobile is not the answer. I don't see much of a future for these, even in large corporate applications. They can simply mix HDDs with SSDs more efficiently.



Of course a pure 500GB SSD would be better, but it's at least 10 times the cost. Is it 10 times better than this drive? I really doubt it.


No, but I would guess this hybrid drive isn't 50% better than a regular old 500GB hard drive even though it's 150% the price. Value-wise, HDD > HDD-SSD > SSD.




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