Seagate Laptop Hybrid Drives

smaxsmax
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
So, Seagate released a hybrid drive with 256 MB of solid state memory to store the most accessed data for faster boot times and less power consumption.



http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...00_psd_hybrid/



It's advertised as unleashing the possibilities of Vista, but I wonder how well it will work on OSX. Also, What will happen in a dual boot environment, where two OSes are using the same hard drive?



Discuss.

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    chopper3chopper3 Posts: 293member
    If it just presents itself as a SATA disk then I see no reason why OSX or a dual boot environment would have a problem. They're not that fast for sequential read/write but their random reads are very fast indeed. What would be cool is if Apple bought up a company called FusionIO (www.fusionio.com) - I love the sound of their new thing.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    smaxsmax Posts: 361member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chopper3 View Post


    If it just presents itself as a SATA disk then I see no reason why OSX or a dual boot environment would have a problem. They're not that fast for sequential read/write but their random reads are very fast indeed. What would be cool is if Apple bought up a company called FusionIO (www.fusionio.com) - I love the sound of their new thing.



    I'm sure it would work just fine with OSX, the main question is what happens when it's getting conflicting info from 2 different OSes...
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