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    ledtech3
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    Just got a email about this. Interesting. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190[^]

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      Just got a email about this. Interesting. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190[^]

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      Kent Sharkey
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      Dang kids with your terabyte drives! When I was growing up, we had to notch our floppies to get "real storage". But I want five of those drives now...

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        Dang kids with your terabyte drives! When I was growing up, we had to notch our floppies to get "real storage". But I want five of those drives now...

        -------------- TTFN - Kent

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        ledtech3
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        I may be able to try one of these some day.

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          Dang kids with your terabyte drives! When I was growing up, we had to notch our floppies to get "real storage". But I want five of those drives now...

          -------------- TTFN - Kent

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          John M Drescher
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          I probably notched a thousand floppies myself..

          John

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            I probably notched a thousand floppies myself..

            John

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            Kent Sharkey
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            It really sounds like a naughty euphemism, doesn't it?

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              Just got a email about this. Interesting. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190[^]

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              Lost User
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              If they build in functionality like the Apple Fusion drive [^] it would be awesome!

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                Dang kids with your terabyte drives! When I was growing up, we had to notch our floppies to get "real storage". But I want five of those drives now...

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                I read this again, I don't remember having to notch them.

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                  Just got a email about this. Interesting. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190[^]

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                  Bassam Abdul Baki
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                  Internet connection is required to install (NSA spyware). :)

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                    Just got a email about this. Interesting. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190[^]

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                    Nagy Vilmos
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                    Started reading it, but they lost me at "The" :sigh:

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                      Just got a email about this. Interesting. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190[^]

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                      Dan Neely
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                      Like every hybrid drive on the market it's still a day late and a dollar short. A year or two ago something similar (64GB flash 500/750 gb hdd) would've been a good option; but now ultra portables generally don't have a 2.5" bay at all and most larger laptops have both one (or more) mSATA/m2 slots and a 2.5" bay. Meanwhile this combo is more expensive than the part tabs sold separately. A separate SSD and 9mm HDD are around $200 vs $300 for the WD drive; and even factoring in that the WD drive needed to use a more expensive 7mm HDD to fit the flash in on top, it's still less than $250 for the parts. If they offered good caching or Apple style hierarchical storage I'd say they still would have a winner for offering KISS improvements; but as two separate partitions it doesn't bring anything to the table.

                      Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                        It really sounds like a naughty euphemism, doesn't it?

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                        John M Drescher
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                        :laugh: Wasn't intentional.

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                          Dang kids with your terabyte drives! When I was growing up, we had to notch our floppies to get "real storage". But I want five of those drives now...

                          -------------- TTFN - Kent

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                          I remember the time I left a box of floppies, with data, in the back of my car on a hot day. It melted the disk jackets, but the magnetic media was ok. I spent hours cutting the disk jackets open and moving the discs into good jackets and copying them. Those were the days when I worked for a living.

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