WD Black - 100 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD hybrid drive announced

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WD has redefined the PC with the next big thing in ultra-fast performance storage. Introducing WD Black², the world's first 2.5-inch dual drive storage solution. The WD Black² dual drive is a completely new approach in a compromised solid-state and hybrid storage market. Finally you can have the speed of an SSD that you want and the capacity of a hard drive that you need in your notebook or all-in-one PC.

tubelight said:
WD Black²

Seagate has been doing that for years now.

Extreme Gamer said:
Seagate has been doing that for years now.

1TB HDD + ~8GB SSD is what Seagate been doing.

sam said:
1TB HDD + ~8GB SSD is what Seagate been doing.

this is good from wd. I expect a reasonable pricing for this.

Extreme Gamer said:
Seagate has been doing that for years now.

sam said:
1TB HDD + ~8GB SSD is what Seagate been doing.

That flash NAND in those drives are used as cache. Not as an actual storage.

rijinpk1 said:
this is good from wd. I expect a reasonable pricing for this.

$299 in US

Extreme Gamer said:
Seagate has been doing that for years now.

their approaches are very different.
seagate has 8GB ssd to act as a fast super cache for the stored data. the firmware intelligently studies your usage and will cache frequently used data to ssd

wd has mutually exclusive ssd and hdd partitions. we can install windows on ssd and keep data on hdd for example. but you'll need special driver /software to enable the hdd partitions. I don't like it.

marvelousprashant said:
$299 in US

u gotta be kidding for $300 ........