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."

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Re:Or wait..

[twidarkling]

A guideline that will serve well (but not perfectly) would be "many" for countable things, "much" for more ineffable concepts. You have many rocks, many people, many grains of sand, but much stress, much water, or much evidence, since you can count individual rocks, people, and grains of sand, but you can't count stress, water, or evidence (though you can count *pieces* of evidence, thus why this rule isn't perfect. In "pieces of evidence," you're talking about "pieces," and "of evidence" is modifying that, so you're using "many" to talk about "pieces.") I hope that helps somewhat.

Re:Try adjusting the swapPINESS

[BrentH]

Now I know it said swap just before 'pines', but thats still not 'penis' yo.

Re:Or wait..

[twidarkling]

English treats this strangely. Either could technically be correct, since it depends on whether you're talking about the data as a single unit, or as a collection of individual datums. If you're talking about it acting as a single group, then you use the singular "is". If you're talking about it as a group of individuals, then the plural "are". Basically, if you were talking about several different groups of data being stored safely, say, your photos, your company's financial records, and your insurance, that could be a case for "the data are stored safely," especially since they'd likely be stored separately, in different fashions.