[HLUG] Hybrid hard drive and dual boot?

[david winterton]

Just a question. Are buying new or up grading your current laptop?
On 28 Aug 2015 15:05, "George DiceGeorge" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hybrid disks are a compromise between
> ssd which are expensive and smaller storage size but faster
> and spinning disks which are cheaper and slower but can hold 1tb or tb,
> for laptops without slots for 2 drives.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive
> "In computing, a hybrid drive (also known by the initialism SSHD[a]) is a
> logical or physical storage device that combines NAND flash solid-state
> drive (SSD) with hard disk drive (HDD) technology, with the intent of
> adding some of the speed of SSDs to the cost-effective storage capacity of
> traditional HDDs. The purpose of the SSD in a hybrid drive is to act as a
> cache for the data stored on the HDD, improving the overall performance by
> keeping copies of the most frequently used data on the SSD.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Steve Horsfield
> Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2015 14:08
> To: Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Hybrid hard drive and dual boot?
>
> At how many revolutions per minute does a solid state drive rotate?
>
> Steve Horsfield
>
> On 28 August 2015 at 14:02, david winterton <davidwinterton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Sounds awesome. But laptops usually take 2 1/2" drives. Should be very fast
>> with a SSD drive. Prehaps as well my box is working well. Or I would be
>> shopping with you.
>> On 28 Aug 2015 13:57, "George DiceGeorge" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Before upgrading to win10 I was going to get a new bigger hard drive.
>> > I'll be dual booting with Ubuntu studio.
>> > But would a hybrid hard drive work fast?
>> > How would it share between win10 and ubuntu?
>> > I'm looking at Seagate 3.5" 2Tb Sata3 Sshd Hybrid Desktop Hard Drive 8Gb
>> > Ssd 7200Rpm 64Mb (not sure if it will fit in laptop though, thats a
>> > different problem)
>> >
>> > george
>> >
>> >
>> >
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