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    WD's 5mm Hybrid Drive is Crazy Thin (Hands on) Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by J.R. Nelson, Sep 13, 2012.

  1. J.R. Nelson

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    J.R. Nelson, Sep 13, 2012
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    That does look interesting. If they can do one platter at 5mm, I'm hoping for two at 7mm.
     
    ZaZ, Sep 15, 2012
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    So are they.
     
    J.R. Nelson, Sep 16, 2012
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    Finally Seagate harddrives (Momentus XT) will have competition!! Lets see how they will perform...
    Please do some benchmarks!! ;)
     
    So7t, Sep 17, 2012
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    But this drive never really came to be. We just have WD's 2 in 1 drive (1TB 7mm thick hard drive with a 120GB ssd, in total being 9.5mm thick) but no hybrid drive in the traditional sense. I am waiting for a hybrid drive with 32GB of flash, OS agnostic. Right now the best Seagate can do is 8GB. Toshiba? Fujitsu?
     
    ickibar1234, Jan 27, 2014
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