![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the plus side, if you are upgrading an old SSD then using that old SSD to cache your large storage drive could be a worthwhile option. At best you get performance closer to HD than SSD and at worst you get performance which is even lower than the HD on it's own! Unfortunately, none of the options have anywhere near the performance of an SSD. These days more manufacturers are selling hybrid drives (after rebranding them as SSHD, which sounds deceptively close to SSD) but they are still only 5400rpm laptop SATA drives, no more than 4TB in size, and they still only have 8GB of flash. ![]() They can allegedly cache some writes, but at the moment they still have very little flash (8GB MLC, with a small portion of the NAND set aside for use in SLC mode, similar to SanDisk’s nCache) and they are only 5400rpm drives. More recent drives like the Seagate 3rd generation solid state hybrid drive (SSHD) look more promising than the original offerings, but there are trade-offs. If you need more capacity but don't want to go full SSD, an SSHD might be an option. Given that hybrid hard drives like the Momentus® XT never really took off (there was only one manufacturer, so tier 1 OEMs did not want to use them, plus the drives only cached reads anyway), it looks like there are limited options for SSD hard drive caching, an add in SATA card or a software solution. ![]()
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