Thread: How come there are no hybrid desktop hard drives?
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Old 03-03-2011, 10:32 AM  
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Originally Posted by woj View Post
1+TB SSD drives at affordable prices are still years away and in some applications platter drives actually outperform SSDs... plus it's not like adding some SSD cache to a platter drive would be some engineering breakthrough, it seems like a trivial task...
trivial vs profitable... adding a cache to current platters would shy people away from getting "newer, better, faster, bigger breasted" ssd drives.
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