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Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, November 26, 2010

December 6, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Oops! This never got posted, what with Thanksgiving and all. So, one week delayed, here are my interesting links from a few weeks back! My writing 9 Ideas To Make Your Blog More Reader-Friendly Creating Web-Friendly Collateral For Product Launches The Best Black Friday Deals For Nerds Like Me (2010 Edition) Do Not Buy Weird, Cheap, Off-Brand Android … [Read more...] about Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, November 26, 2010

Are Hybrid Hard Drives A Good Alternative To An SSD?

November 20, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Ask a Pack Rat A timely question from a comment on my cheap Momentus XT post and continued in my inbox: How well does [the Momentus XT] perform in a Mac laptop? What I've noticed is substantial slow-down on my older MB Pro when there's a lot of virtual memory usage (e.g. when running several apps plus Parallels.) For my next MBP (hopefully in the next 2-3 months), I'm … [Read more...] about Are Hybrid Hard Drives A Good Alternative To An SSD?

Buy The Speedy Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB Hybrid Drive For Under $120!

November 20, 2010 By Stephen 2 Comments

Seagate has definitely gotten the attention of road warriors and storage nerds with their Momentus XT hybrid hard disk drive. Many agree with Brent Ozar, who called for it to be a standard component of every laptop. Even I was impressed! But the Momentus XT hasn't seen much (any?) uptake by OEMs. Perhaps customers weren't ready to pay a little extra for a lot more … [Read more...] about Buy The Speedy Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB Hybrid Drive For Under $120!

Smoking-Fast Laptops: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid SSD Disk Drive Confirmed!

May 21, 2010 By Stephen 2 Comments

There has been much speculation that a new generation of hybrid flash/hard disk drives was right around the corner, and Provantage confirmed it today: The reseller posted a family of "Momentus XT" 2.5" laptop drives for sale on their web site, shipping in 3-4 weeks. Many other sites began listing the drives as well, and The Register got the scoop, benchmarks, and official … [Read more...] about Smoking-Fast Laptops: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid SSD Disk Drive Confirmed!

Hybrid SSD/Hard Disk Drives: This Time For Sure!

May 17, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Hard disk drive makers are adding flash storage to their conventional spinning-platter drives to improve performance and are targeting the performance PC market. Wait a second, haven't we seen this before? As Rocky eventually said to Bullwinkle, "but that trick never works!" Flash as a Cache Using flash memory as a disk cache is a pretty good idea. Flash has awesome random … [Read more...] about Hybrid SSD/Hard Disk Drives: This Time For Sure!

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