Boris, they make sense in two ways. They are simple replacement for a hard drive and give you the fast access of an SSD and the large space of a hard drive, all without having to partition your disk space or even to think about where the "fast stuff" is versus where the "slow stuff" is. The speed improvement occurs for all your stored data.
They are just like adding RAM cache inside your CPU: it's a no-fuss drop-in two-level memory. And the other way is in system designs where you only have room for one drive, eg a notebook or a physically compact enclosure like an iMac. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > In my opinion, this is not worth it. If you require SSD in your > system, just buy one such drive, as they are relatively inexpensive > these days. If you require proper storage - buy proper HDDs. These > SSD+HDD combinations were meaningful when SSD's were very expensive, > but not any longer. > > E.g. my system has HDDs for storing pics and 256 GB SSD for OS and > LightRoom caches, scratches, you name it. Works just fine and suits my > requirements for system responsiveness. > > YMMandWV :-) > > Boris > > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Paul in MKE <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's time to upgrade the hard drive in my computer and I'm looking at a >> hybrid - a standard hard drive with a small built-in solid state drive. Has >> anyone had any experience with this? Are they really faster/better than a >> old-fashioned spinny drive or is it just hype? >> >> -p >> >> -- >> Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
