[olug] Combining SDD and HDD drives?

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Mon Jul 12 15:22:48 UTC 2010


> Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I did notice the HD 
> manufacturers are making hybrid drives now that do this internally somehow...

Functionally, how is that any different than a really big drive cache?

Expensive ($1M) disk arrays have been doing this sort of thing for a
while now, but I've never seen it done on a smaller, affordable scale.

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