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Re:Microsoft Surface Studio by r00fus on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:38PM (#12800266)
Hybrid drives are noticably slower than SSD for a lot of use cases. It's like saying a USB2 part is good enough when USB3 is pervasive, expected, and not that much pricier.

SSDs (and preferably PCIe or NVMe) should be table stakes at a $2k price.

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Re:Microsoft Surface Studio by KirinDave on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:55PM (#12802098)
It'd not though because the price per GB is still pretty big.

A lot of people here are talking as if they've actually tested these hybrid drives and found them wanting. Hybrid drives have an SSD-like component so as long as your working set fits in those and is relatively predictable, the performance difference is not noticeable.

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