X points to the spot; in 3D!
It has been a few months since Al looked at Intel's Optane and its impressive performance and price. This is why it seems appropriate to revist the 2280 M.2 stick...
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Tag: hybrid
Spent all your money on a new CPU and couldn’t afford an SSD? Intel Optane Memory is here
At $44 for 16GB or $77 for a 32GB module Intel's Optane memory will cost you less in total for an M.2 SSD, though a significantly higher price per gigabyte. The catch…
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Intel Optane Memory 32GB Review – Faster Than Lightning
Introduction: Finally! Optane Memory sitting in our lab! Sure, it’s not the mighty P4800X we remotely tested over the past month, but this is...
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CES 2015: Storage Visions: Western Digital SATA Express SSD+HDD Spotted
At the SATA-IO booth at Storage Visions, they have a functional demo of Western Digital prototype hybrid HDD/SSD's. These are not hybrid in the traditional sense, as the SSD portion (128GB JMicron based…
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Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB Review – Big Hybrid, Little Cache
Introduction We've looked at many hybrid options over the past few years. First we checked out Intel's RST Caching solution, introduced on the Z68 chipset. Then we looked into Seagate's...
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CES 2014: LG Launching Updated Mobile PCs
CES 2014 is not until next week, but that has not stopped several companies from offering a bit of a “sneak peek” of what they will be showing off in Las Vegas…
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HP’s mobile Haswell lineup
HP announced quite a few new products though they went a little light on the specs as far as many enthusiasts would prefer. The Spectre 13 will be a hybrid tablet and…
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Seagate Thin SSHD 500GB Full Review – Third Generation Hybrid
Introduction Seagate recently announced and released their third generation of laptop Solid State Hybrid Drives. Originally thier hybrids carried the Momentus (laptop HDD) name forward, tacking on 'XT' to denote the...
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Sony’s Tap 20 convertible tablet
Sony has joined the convertible tablet market with the new Tap 20 and Legit Reviews had a chance to work with one. They come in a wide variety of prices and internals,…
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Podcast #242 – AMD’s new Richland APUs, Steam Box Prototypes, Seagate Hybrid Drives and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #242 - 03/14/2013 Join us this week as we discuss AMD's new Richland APUs, Steam Box Prototypes, Seagate Hybrid Drives and more! You can…
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CES 2013: Western Digital thin 5mm and 7mm hard drives now also come in hybrid SSHD!
Today Western Digital showed me their new 5mm and 7mm mobile hard drives. These are very thin, intended for Ultrabooks, and come not only in the familiar Blue product line, but also…
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A quick look at the data on Apple’s Fusion Drive
Yesterday, amongst a bunch of other announcements, Apple mentioned a 'new' technology that was built into OSX (10.8.2 and up). Dubbed 'Fusion Drive', this tech enables the late 2012 Mac Mini and...
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CES 2012: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Hybrid Demonstration Video
Earlier in the weekend we heard about Lenovo's new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid notebook that combines standard Intel x86 hardware with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running an open-source Linux...
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Podcast #181 – Hybrid Storage Roundup, the ASUS US36SD-XA1 notebook, News of the week and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #181 - 12/08/2011 Join us this week as we talk about our Hybrid Storage Roundup, the ASUS US36SD-XA1 notebook, News of the week and more! You can subscribe to us…
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Third time is the charm? Seagate releases the third generation of their hybrid drive
Over the past few years Seagate has been trying to perfect a way to get the best of both storage worlds by combining an SSD as a semi-permanent cache for a large platter…
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RevoDrive 3 and Hybrid Highlight OCZ Showcase at Computex
OCZ is definitely pushing its SSD products to the consumer and it was no different when we stopped by the OCZ suite at Computex 2011. The most interesting devices came in the form…
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Intel Smart Response Technology: SSD Caching on Z68 Tested
For the past few months, we've seen rumors upon rumors of a hybrid combination of the H67 and P67 chipsets into a 'Z' series. As the storage editor, I don't normally focus…
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