The access time is also VERY low compared to a HDD...
While flash has no seek time to worry about, TFA clearly says that flash is slower than rotating disks for large sequential reads & writes. While these hybrid disks don't have that problem, because large writes can go straight to the magnetic disk and bypass the flash, a solid state drive is really going to suffer in that aspect. So, that movie you wanted to archive? Have fun...
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The access time is also VERY low compared to a HDD...
While flash has no seek time to worry about, TFA clearly says that flash is slower than rotating disks for large sequential reads & writes. While these hybrid disks don't have that problem, because large writes can go straight to the magnetic disk and bypass the flash, a solid state drive is really going to suffer in that aspect. So, that movie you wanted to archive? Have fun...