Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs

crookedvulture writes "Intel has added a couple of tiny 310 Series solid-state drives to its storage lineup. Measuring just 51 x 30 x 5.8mm, the mini-SATA SSDs are about a tenth the size of a standard notebook hard drive. Impressively, their performance ratings track with full-sized SSDs. Intel is pushing the 310 Series as a solution for dual-drive notebooks that combine solid-state and mechanical storage to give users the best of both worlds. Next-gen notebooks just got a little more interesting."

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[antifoidulus]

I wonder how much that primitive joke of an "operating system" will derail the widespread adoption of these hybrid technologies. With grown up OSs that aren't stupid enough to map the physical drive layout to the logical file layout, these hybrid drives are a no brainer, just change the fstab to point /home(/Users for macheads :P) to the hd and / to the ssd. Done! However in Windows you now would have to contend with your drive being divided amongst 2 drive letters and all the registry hell that goes along with it. Not to mention the fact that a large # of applications simply fail if everything isn't on C:\

Again, windows will probably hold up the rest of us from evolving long enough so that they can write another hack to make their shitty "operating system" work. Why, why are people still putting up with such hard to use primitive bullshit? Linux is infinitely easier to use than Windows ever was.