Tancap Blog » Seagate http://blog.tancap.net Technology, Gaming, Life Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:31:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seagate Reveals Hybrid SSD / HDD http://blog.tancap.net/2010/05/25/seagate-reveals-hybrid-ssd-hdd/ http://blog.tancap.net/2010/05/25/seagate-reveals-hybrid-ssd-hdd/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 00:12:55 +0000 Tim http://blog.tancap.net/?p=934 AnandTech has a post about Seagate’s new Momentus XT hybrid drive.  It is a notebook hard drive combined with a small 4 GB SSD used for read caching.  The results overall are pretty good especially for notebooks that often don’t have more than one drive bay available to do a separate SSD and HDD combination.  It won’t beat a decent pure SSD, but for normal day to day use it will still be generally faster than any single hard disk drive.

For more information, see AnandTech’s article here.

]]> http://blog.tancap.net/2010/05/25/seagate-reveals-hybrid-ssd-hdd/feed/ 0 Seagate Confirms 3 TB Hard Drives at the End of the Year http://blog.tancap.net/2010/05/19/seagate-confirms-3-tb-hard-drives-at-the-end-of-the-year/ http://blog.tancap.net/2010/05/19/seagate-confirms-3-tb-hard-drives-at-the-end-of-the-year/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 12:17:28 +0000 Tim http://blog.tancap.net/?p=931 Seagate has confirmed that it is planning on releasing a 3 TB hard drive at the end of the year.

A THINKQ post goes into some of the details (and potential problems) of the drive.

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