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There weren’t many bad user reviews to be found, and less than ordinary on a product of this age. This hybrid drive from Toshiba has been on the market for a while now, and as such I did a little digging into complaints and user feedback. Toshiba is offering a 3-year warranty on this 9.5 mm thin drive that weighs 117 grams. The drive isn’t an exclusive and can be had at many retailers as well. The drive is mainly sold to system builders, and they don’t need these extras. Since this is an OEM drive, it comes with no form of accessories. The Hybrid drive fills this gap, allowing everyone to find just the sweet-spot between the price and performance they need. Comparing the pure capacity of hard drives they could get for the same money can leave you with a tough decision. While SSD’s have become both cheaper and bigger over the years, they’re still to expensive for many people. It’s also a great choice to make if you aren’t sure that you actually need the speed a SSD will give you. Order with Confidence, Industry Leader since 2005, EDU GOV PO accepted, Supplying Data Centers Worldwide - 2.5 and 3. A lot of people might also feel it will be easier to just deal with one disk over setting up both a SSD for your system and a HDD for the rest. Dell Certified 1.92TB SSD SAS SATA drives and tray for Gen13 and Gen14 PowerEdge.
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Compared to traditional hard drives this is a big bonus, but doesn’t cost much more. The hybrid drive will give us faster boot times as well as faster access to often used files. If your laptop or notebook only has room for one drive while you need a lot of storage space, a SSD that size might be out of your price range. There are several reasons one would pick a hybrid drive, where none of them have to be exclusive. Toshiba uses self-learning caching algorithms to determine your usage pattern and optimize file locations. They are giving us the capacity we’re used to from the hard disk but with a boost to the most-used-files on your system to near SSD speeds. Hybrid drives enter a sweet spot between traditional hard drives with spinning platters and solid state drives with their flash memory. Today we’re taking a closer look at the Toshiba 1TB 2.5″ Notebook Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive, the MQ01ABD100H. Toshiba is one of the world’s leading suppliers when it comes to OEM Hard drives, so it’s no surprise that they also want to be part of the Hybrid Drive wave led by WD, with their own OEM drives and range of consumer SSHD drives.