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Old 03-01-2011, 12:33 PM   #5
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This is a hybrid drive. Meaning 500GB of traditional platters spinning at 7200rpm with a built in 4GB SSD drive run by the drive controller to manage frequently accessed files. Consider it more like a turbo for a traditional drive than a SSD disk.

TDF - I venture the opposite, clean OS installed on the SSD for rapid boots / improved OS performance, and proper partitioning of programs/data on a 7200 RPM drive. Cost / Gig favors data on the less expensive disk and optimal OS performance to the faster SSD.

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