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Western Digital launches a Hybrid Drive. SSHD

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It is about time that WD releases their own SSHD. I for one have been looking forward to a WD SSHD in quite some time. 

 

http://uk.hardware.info/news/37896/wd-black2-combined-hard-drive-and-ssd

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299 euros? A SSD and HDD is cheaper. But it's in a smaller form factor, so it'd cost more.

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Well, I thought it would just be a Momentous XT, but damn a a HDD and SSD as separately addressable volumes in 9mm is fancy!

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That's way better than Seagates, but dat price....

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I think we need to come up with better names than just SSHD because there are now different classes of SSHDs, I just expected this to be caching like the others.

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looks like sexy :D feels like wallet though :| 

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That's way better than Seagates, but dat price....

The price is high probably because it performs better then the competition. Actually it will perform better. Seagate's SSHD's have a much smaller SSD cache of 8GB I think. So 120GB is a huge step up.

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I guess I can't use this on my ps4 as its 2 disks

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$150 dollars worth of drives for $300 ??? So basically you're paying double for the convience of using 1 drive bay instead of 2. Not to mention both the hard drive and ssd are mediocre at best. No thanks, i'd rather put $150 towards a better laptop that can hold 2 drives.

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So....much...money....

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If the price goes down, this would be really good choice for laptops which doesn't have the ability to have two drives. However the price is too high for what it is. I would rather go for 500Gb Samsung Evo SSD which is actually cheaper than the WD hybrid drive.

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Personally I don't really see the point of something like this as most small laptops have an mSATA slot in them so you can fit a much cheaper SSD in there instead without needing another 2.5" slot.

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For 300 dollars, I'd rather use all SSDs as my storage and get another one with high capacity and use my current one strictly for games.

 

 

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I didn't see this post and tried posting almost the same thing.

 

They say that this isn't a Hybrid Drive, but 2 individual drives in one chassis.

 

Here is the article I had posted on my FB

http://www.maximumpc.com/wd_unveils_black_squared_dual_drive2013

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too expensive. for that money, i can get a 2tb 2.5 hdd and a 120gb m-sata drive. also i need it to work on linux without additional software.

but i have to admit that it looks nice. the only way for it to work is to come at the same price as the hdd and ssd combined.

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The only use I see for this is maybe for laptops/ultrabooks.

 

And even then, it would be MUCH better value to just grab a SSHD or heck, even a good capacity SSD is better value for money than that.

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The only use I see for this is maybe for laptops/ultrabooks.

 

And even then, it would be MUCH better value to just grab a SSHD or heck, even a good capacity SSD is better value for money than that.

 

To be honest, it does have its place. I know its more expensive, but think of say a laptop that only has ONE drive bay, and can't take an m-sata? This would actually be perfect in that situation.

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worth it in my opinion.

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software needed to work ... meh ... keep it

... i need it to work on linux without additional software....

I don't know where you are getting that software is needed to use the two separate drives...

 

 

 

 

The disk comes complete with a SATA to USB 3.0 kit and a web key for downloading software you can use for converting your current hard disk to the new dual drive.

Software is for migrating from the old hard drive (with the usb 3.0 kit).  

 

edit: additionally, software used to "unlock" second partition of hard drive containing the 1TB storage.  This is NOT A DRIVER. 

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