What happens when SDD cache fails on a hybrid drive?

[gates]

Hybrid drives combines a small SSD cache with traditional hard drive.  It's a known fact that SSD drives tend to fail sooner than traditional hard drives. 

 

What happens when SDD cache fails on a hybrid drive?  Would the traditional portion of the hard drive still work?  Can the data on the hard drive platters still be accessed? 

[Lucifyra]

I am interested in this as well.

 

Firstly, I would hope the HD monitoring software, be it SMART or whatever, would let you know soon enough to back up your stuff. Assuming of course you enjoy living on the edge and not backing up stuff nightly regardless. (Mine actually backs up everything across 3 or 4 drives every time I shutdown or restart the computer. I've been burned twice by having insufficient backups.)

 

I would think that hybrid drives are sort of like Raid 0. Because data would be spread across 2 different places. Someone please correct me if I am way off base here.