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Toshiba 2.5-inch 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review

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Toshiba 2.5-inch 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review

 

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. Today we're taking a closer look at the Toshiba

1TB 2.5″ Notebook Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive,

the MQ01ABD100H.

 

Hybrid drives enter a sweet spot between traditional hard drives with

spinning platters and solid state drives with their flash memory. 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.

Toshiba uses self-learning caching algorithms to determine your usage

pattern and optimize file locations.

 

There are several reasons one would pick a hybrid drive, where none

of them have to be exclusive. 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. The hybrid drive will give us faster

boot times as well as faster access to often used files. Compared to

traditional hard drives this is a big bonus, but doesn't cost much

more. 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.

 

It's also a great choice to make if you aren't sure that you actually

need the speed a SSD will give you. While SSD's have become both

cheaper and bigger over the years, they're still to expensive for many

people. Comparing the pure capacity of hard drives they could get for

the same money can leave you with a tough decision. The Hybrid drive

fills this gap, allowing everyone to find just the sweet-spot between

the price and performance they need.

 

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http://www.eteknix.com/toshiba-2-5-inch-1tb-solid-state-hybrid-drive-review/

 

 

 

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