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of something that I personally think is really important and really interesting,
but you might disagree, but I mean, come on. At this point, you clicked on the
video. You might as well watch it, right? This is the creatively named
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2000 Gigabyte.
Really like whoever names their products uh they get an award for being very
practical. Um so what it is is it is their first desktop hybrid drive. So it
contains in spite of its normal 3 and 12 in form factor and normal SATA 36 Gbit
per second interface a regular mechanical 3 and 12 in drive. So, it's
available in 1 TB or two terabyte. Although there a little birdie told me
there might be a a higher capacity one later. Although saying that there might
be a higher capacity hard drive later is about like saying the sun might rise.
Like they really are about the same probability because if the sun stopped rising then all the hard drives would
probably go away anyway. Um so it contains a mechanical hard drive as well
as an SSD inside that completely doesn't
need to be configured at all. So, the 8 gig SSD, and that's seems pretty small,
but more on that in a moment, dynamically finds the data that you use
most often and caches it in there for much, much faster reads. Now, there's a
little bit of a writing strategy as well, but not nearly to the same extent
as it uses the SSD for reads, which is really important, particularly for
things like your operating system. So, if you're getting used to devices like
smartphones and tablets and even ultrabooks to a lesser extent that run
strictly off of flash, you're probably getting used to a level of
responsiveness that just can't be achieved through pure mechanical. That's
where the SSD comes in. So even though it's quite small, you're able to cache
the things that are going to make your system feel really responsive, but
you're able to have that large capacity backup for things like large games that
you want to install or large programs like, I don't know, you know, Adobe
Suite or or things like that. And it really does give sort of the best of
both worlds. In addition to performance, you're also going to potentially
make the device last longer. So there's a few different ways of looking at this.
Number one is you're adding more points of failure when you have SSD as well as
mechanical. Number two, though, is that you're making them inherently last
longer because SSDs don't like being written to. Eventually, they will die.
Um, but what happens is because you're not always writing things directly to
the SSD, you're actually writing to the hard drive, the SSD only gets written to
when it's something that you use very, very frequently. And SSDs don't get worn
out by reading from them. Okay. Then there's the mechanical drive that gets
worn out about equally from reading and writing. So, you have to write it to it
regardless. But what if you could read all of your most frequently used data
from the SSD, which doesn't really wear out? See where I'm going with this? So,
you could potentially get a longevity benefit as well. Now, this
implementation is not the beall and endall of a hybrid solution. So, if you
have two separate drives, you can use Intel SRT to use an SSD to cache a hard
drive completely separately. And there are actually drives being manufactured
with a single interface that have two separately addressable drives inside
them. This is one of the benefits of say a 36 GB per second, right? Because
you've got tons of bandwidth there as long as you're not talking about
extremely high performance like enthusiast grade SSDs. There are other
implementations as well. I mean, Microsoft's working on ways to have the
OS handle some of the SSD caching itself. And Intel, um, Seagate and
Western Digital worked on an extension to the SATA 3 IO that is going to allow
the drives themselves, which really do know more about what's going on inside
them than the OS necessarily does, to start providing hints to the OS about
what to cache and when and where. So, the future is extremely exciting. And I
believe that as much as I use solid state only in my desktop machines, I do
use mechanical for mass storage over the
network. So as much as I believe in solid state and love it, I do believe
that a hybrid is going to be the future, at least for the near to midterm. So
guys, do check this out. It's the Seagate Desktop SSHD.
The most interesting name ever. Um, and
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