WD 4TB 128GB SSHD... with Sata Express at CES?

[Bloodshed Romance]

I really hope that linus' team gets to see this thing.. not sure if it will just be the housing or what but this is awesome... hopefully they'll have some info about it at CES... they'll have a performance demo at Storage Visions 2015... but heres to hoping something will make an appearance at CES...

 

http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/wd-to-demo-4tb-hybrid-hard-drive-with-sata-express-interface/

[Tagiau]

So an upgrade to the black2. Seems interesting.

[Bloodshed Romance]

i'm interested to see what all they'll have done other than expand the HDD to 4TB.. the idea of the WD black (squared) was already pretty awesome..I wonder how much it will gain from being Sata express though seeing as its mainly a HDD...

 

I haven't owned a WD black squared but I thought the first generation was 2 separate drives... 128gb ssd and 1TB HDD that you could load whatever you wanted on either partition..

The way Kitguru words everything is sounding more like a 128GB cache and 4TB storage for this model... if I had a laptop that took a 2.5 inch drive instead of m.2 then I would've shoved that in it..

 

Hope to learn more from CES coverage if its there...

[TheGeekster]

I think the one thing that puts me off... will it be cheaper or more advantageous than using an SSD and a hard drive... This has to be a 3.5 inch bay device anyway so laptops wouldn't be helped here, and most desktops have space for a 3.5 and a 2.5 (I know, exceptions but meh)

[Bloodshed Romance]

I think the one thing that puts me off... will it be cheaper or more advantageous than using an SSD and a hard drive... This has to be a 3.5 inch bay device anyway so laptops wouldn't be helped here, and most desktops have space for a 3.5 and a 2.5 (I know, exceptions but meh)

i'm thinking super itx builds or something... with sata express as the interface it has potiential but the HDD I hope is at least 7200RPM compared to the previous generations 5400RPM..

[bohica]

Wasn't the Black version an SSD/HDD combo? Like 120 gig SSD and I forget about the mechanical side, but not a hybrid in the sense of a Seagate.

[Bloodshed Romance]

Wasn't the Black version an SSD/HDD combo? Like 120 gig SSD and I forget about the mechanical side, but not a hybrid in the sense of a Seagate.

the original Black squared to my understanding was a 120gb SSD standalone with a 1TB 5400rpm HDD standalone that you could do what you want with..

 

its on sale currently for 150 aswell... http://www.amazon.com/Black2-Dual-Drive-2-5-WD1001X06XDTL/dp/B00GSJ9X4Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420389164&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+squared

just watched WDs install guide for it.. with their software its a dedicated 120GB ssd and 1TB HDD... you put what you want, where you want.. it doesn't act as a cache which is good imo..

as for the new drive, Kitguru says its like a SSHD which is a hybrid drive where the SSD is the cache.. maybe WD will have different skews for this because i'd much rather have the SSD separate from the HDD but maybe i'm alone in this mentality..

[TheGeekster]

Nope you aren't alone, caches are nice... if they do what you want with what you want, as with anything automated, it will never do quite what you want it to do, you can't specifically install a certain game to it for example

[NeatSquidYT]

Wasn't the Black version an SSD/HDD combo? Like 120 gig SSD and I forget about the mechanical side, but not a hybrid in the sense of a Seagate.

The WD Black is a normal mechanical HDD, Black squared was the SSHD

[Bloodshed Romance]

The WD Black is a normal mechanical HDD, Black squared was the SSHD

black squared original version has a stand alone SSD and stand alone HDD in it.. you put what you want on the SSD, and you put what you want on the HDD, two independent drives in one.

[NeatSquidYT]

black squared original version has a stand alone SSD and stand alone HDD in it.. you put what you want on the SSD, and you put what you want on the HDD, two independent drives in one.

Yes, an SSHD..... An SSHD is the combined SSD and HDD

[Bloodshed Romance]

Yes, an SSHD..... An SSHD is the combined SSD and HDD

oh, I was under the impression that a SSHD used the SSD drive as a cache for the HDD portion..

[NumLock21]

WD already did a demo back in Computex. From that to now, we might see some improvements?

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/38171/wd-demonstrates-new-pcie-sata-express-hdd-at-computex-2014/index.html

[Captain_WD]

Interesting