Slashdot Mirror
Seagate Launches Hybrid SSD Hard Drive
MojoKid writes "Though there has been some noise in recent years about hybrid storage, it really hasn't made a significant impact on in the market. Seagate is taking another stab at the technology and launched the Momentus XT 2.5-inch hard drive that mates 4GB of flash storage with traditional spinning media in an attempt to bridge the gap between hard drives and SSDs. Seagate claims the Momentus XT can offer the same kind of enhanced user experience as an SSD, but with the capacity and cost of a traditional hard drive. That's a pretty tall order, but the numbers look promising, at least compared to current traditional notebook hard drives."
4GB is very restrictive. I had the first EeePC, the 701, with the 4GB SSD. Talk about micromanage the OS... You can't even install Windows 7 onto the 4GB SSD and put the rest of your data on the HDD, as it's too small! What's the point?
Disagree != mod troll.
Only if you want the SSD to die within a month. Windows writes to the swapfile pretty much constantly.
Oh dear, I'd better remember to replace my SSD-based laptop, err, 9 months ago.
What is this "reboot" you speak of