When the Seagate folks asked me if I wanted to try out their new hybrid drive, my jaw dropped. I’m no stranger to the concept: IBM mainframes had hybrid drives decades ago, but the IBM drive was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and cost as much as a Mercedes Benz. Seagate’s version costs just $156 for 500GB of disk and a 4GB SSD (solid-state drive), and it fits in a laptop. Not only that, but it is operating system independent: The NAND flash memory is directly integrated into the drive controller board and does notrequire any specific software to be loaded on the operating system.
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