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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/01/2013 11:25 AM, Ron Frazier
(ALE) wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">In both my laptops, I have Seagate Hybrid Drives. Each one has a 4GB or 8GB SSD cache layered on top of a spinning drive.
I think it's a great idea. They boot almost as fast as an SSD, but have large data capacities of 500 GB and 750 GB respectively but only cost about 30 % over an HDD. I think the 750 GB one was about $ 130 a year ago.</pre>
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As long as you never, ever store secure data on the device, or only
do so with strong encryption.<br>
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Otherwise, it is a *very* bad idea.<br>
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Keep the SSD cache separate from the HDD, and you have a means of
secure destruction of the HDD without worrying about internal SSD
components. Magnetic fields won't affect an SSD cache inside an
HDD.<br>
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I am considering adding 100 GB of SSD to my 2 TB system... but you
won't catch me dead with hybrid drives unless they stop making real
HDDs.<br>
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— Mike<br>
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