RE: Re: SSD and VMWare Server 2... spicy!

[Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... I'd imagine (or at least hope) that the technology should
reduce
power consumption over a traditional fully mechanical drive though... - in
a
laptop you don't want the sole system drive to spin down whilst the machine
is awake, so it would surely have to be going all the time... I believe
part
of the operating characteristics of hybrids is supposed to allow the
mechanical part to spin down for a good proportion of the operating time -
the SSD portion keeping the OS happy with good fast responsive storage and
able to commit writes to the drive without having to spin up the
platters...

I'm >this< close to ordering one... - now that I can't order a new
Sandy
Bridge system for at least another couple of months, I need something else
to play with!

Paul G.


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Subject: [ukha_d] Re: SSD and VMWare Server 2... spicy!


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@...> wrote:
>
> Anyone tried the new Seagate hybrid SSD/mechanical hard drive:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/222310
 - I've held off putting SSD in my
laptop because of the cost of fitting a big enough one (granted I can, and
do, use an external HDD as well, but it's handy to have all the
"essential"
stuff available straight off the internal drive). This would appear to give
the best of both worlds....
>
> Paul G.


No, but been very, very tempted. The only issue for me would be power usage
(I'm using a wee netbook, and long battery life is my thing).

Still, after dipping my toes in the SSD waters, I'm quite taken with the
thought of a hybrid...



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