If only life were still so simple! The rise of solid-state drives and hybrid drives (which mix standard hard drives with solid-state memory) have significantly altered the storage landscape ...

This post talks about Solid State Hybrid Hard Drives (SSHD), how they work and what are the benefits, their features to see if you would want one. Now we know that a cache in a system is ...

I also checked out a hybrid drive: Seagate’s Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive (750GB; $195 to $324), which includes a 7200-rpm 2.5-inch drive with a SATA 6Gbps interface. A 500GB version of ...

Today I’m taking the look at just such a drive, the Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) with 2 TB capacity. Solid State Hybrid Drives deliver speed and capacity for gaming and high ...

Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal ...

Today we’re taking a closer look at the Toshiba 1TB 2.5″ Notebook Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive, the MQ01ABD100H. Hybrid drives enter a sweet spot between traditional hard drives with ...

200rpm laptop drives later this year and, surely not coincidentally, it has announced that the latest version of its notebook solid state hybrid drives is now available. Abandoning the Momentus XT ...

Then there is the amalgamation of both that is a Hybrid drive, also referred to as an SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive). HDDs have been the go-to storage choice for years, providing a solid balance ...

A solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD) combines the best of both worlds: It’s a traditional spinning hard disk enhanced with a small amount of quick solid-state cache memory. The Hybrid Drive marries ...

Hybrid drives can be a bridge between hard drives ... a high-capacity hard drive and a low-capacity solid state “cache” drive. By “low capacity,” I’m talking about 20GB to 50GB of ...