Thread: Anybody using these new Seagate "Hybrid" SSD drives?
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Old 10-18-2010, 04:40 AM  
MrMaxwell
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Originally Posted by Ethersync View Post
No doubt that a real SSD drive is much better, but compare the price of a 500gb SSD with the price of a 500GB Momentus XT Hybrid and it's a no brainer. Even for a professional graphics workstation I would buy a couple of these hybrids and put them in a RAID 0 configuration. The speed will be comparable to what you would get with a normal SSD price and for a fraction of the price.
Good idea, but would that take care of the stuttering/freezing issues with MLC drives I've heard about??? I wouldn't think so.. And wouldn't RAID0 confuse the piss out of the algo the drive uses??
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