Western Digital announced the release of the WD Black2 dual drive, a unique storage innovation that fuses a 2.5-inch 120 GB solid state drive (SSD) with a 1 TB hard disk drive (HDD) to offer a powerf... Western Digital SSD and HDD Dual Drive Hybrid
Errrmm, what? I clearly remember WD telling that its new hybrid Blacks will use special caching software... looks like either they couldn't get it working or the results were poor... I am not happy at all with such "solution" =( Yes, this drive has some potential market, but its value is hugely diminished for me... Also - Jmicron controller... 2 available volumes over one connection... (I am not saying it will be saturated, I am more worried about the complexity of tech\firmware of doing so...) Well, let's wait for benchmarks and reviews... also some benchmarks of available current SSD caching software will be nice... Update: May be this Black^2 is simply another category of drives?... and we will see a "proper" Hybrid Black in the nearest future...
I don't get hybrid drivers. User himself knows better what frequent software he/she uses and what requires speed. Buying separate HDD/SSD as sykozis mentioned, makes much more sense.
those 8gb ssd with 2tb drives at 120€ are pretty good for gaming imo. faster then traditional huge drives and way cheaper then ssd's by far and offer nice speed boost.
Yeah, but you can't fit them both into a laptop with only 1 2.5" drive slot. Also, PCPer has a nice review with benchmarks: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storag...ll-Review-120GB-SSD-1TB-HDD-single-25-package
That's exactly it. I don't know why anybody would put them in desktops (unless it's some tiny mATX box), but I might be interested in getting one of these for my 15" laptop with only a single HD slot. But the price would need to be a bit more interesting, and partially for that reason 120+500 would be enough for me. Since I would just get a 250GB SSD otherwise, due to pricing and the fact I don't need so much space.
Yeah, But does your laptop have room for two hard drives? most don't. Also, I can see this being a good solution for people with a PS4 once the price gets a little better. Well... that's if the PS4 will allow a drive like this to function.
Rumor has it you just made that up out of thin air. If you read the article, it clearly says the drive fits in 9.5mm high locations.