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    Opinions on current Hybrid Hard Drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by konfuzd, Sep 17, 2007.

  1. konfuzd

    konfuzd Notebook Guru

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    Exactly as the title states. I'm interested in buying a larger hard drive for my laptop and I'm consitering the 160GB samsung flashon or 160GB seagate psd (if I can find it). My only problem is there's little to no information available on the internet regarding performance or power consumption that I can find. Does anyone know of a good review or if you own one, what's your informed opinion?

    Also, any news on future hybrid drives?
     
    konfuzd, Sep 17, 2007
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  2. Afaik

    Afaik Notebook Enthusiast

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    Afaik, Sep 17, 2007
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  3. konfuzd

    konfuzd Notebook Guru

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    Thanks, that answered my questions.
     
    konfuzd, Sep 18, 2007
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    ToxicBanana Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    I too am very interested in HHDD's, but am not satisfied with the current offerings a prices. Does anyone know if there are newer, higher capacity drives on the way?
     
    ToxicBanana, Sep 18, 2007
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  5. konfuzd

    konfuzd Notebook Guru

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    I've found a few things mentioning seagate drives with 512MB or 1GB flash, but nothing on when. Hopefully they actually make a difference on battery life.
     
    konfuzd, Sep 18, 2007
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    leaftye Notebook Consultant

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    I would totally buy a 1 gig hybrid drive. The current offerings, well it's really just one offering since the Seagate is impossible to find, only have 256 megs and that's not enough to compensate for a 5400 rpm drive. Now 1 gig and 7200 rpms...that'd be sweet!
     
    leaftye, Sep 19, 2007
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