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New WD Black2 Hybrid

Anything specific you're looking for? It's good for its specific niche (laptops with only one 2.5" bay and no mSATA) but other than that it's not worth the money. It looks like WD has lowered the price but it's still ~$80 more than 1TB HD + 128GB SSD combo.
 
I seem to recall something about being able to do the initial partitioning thing with a windows computer, then you are no longer limited to a Windows machine?
 
Essence_of_War said:
Does it still lack OS X support? Seems like it could have been a tasty little roll-your-own-fusion-drive.
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Yes, no official OS X support at this point. The issue with Fusion Drive is that, as far as I know, you need two separate disks to create it. The Black2 is recognized as one disk with two partitions, so I don't think it's up for the task.

KingFatty said:
I seem to recall something about being able to do the initial partitioning thing with a windows computer, then you are no longer limited to a Windows machine?
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Technically yes, but the problem is that you need to reformat the partition since neither Linux or OS X plays nice with NTFS. While the LBA range should stay the same, I have no way of testing that as I don't have a Mac with a hard drive bay (only MacBook Air).
 
Once these get cheap, I'll pick one up for my ITX build.
OS on the mSATA, games on the Black2 sata, media on the Black2 HDD. Hoping for a 240/1TB drive for under $250 or a 750GB+ ssd for the same price whichever hits first.
 
Sounds like a viable option for a working laptop running Windows although it would appear you would have to check to see if the 9mm drive would fit in your drive bay.
I have a 120G SSD in my laptop and have to use USB drives for storage, the Hybrid drive would eliminate the need to use the external drive most of the time.
 
Hellhammer said:
Anything specific you're looking for? It's good for its specific niche (laptops with only one 2.5" bay and no mSATA) but other than that it's not worth the money. It looks like WD has lowered the price but it's still ~$80 more than 1TB HD + 128GB SSD combo.
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Nothing specific. My impression from reading a review in "Max PC" coincides with your assessment. Since I had not seen any discussion on it heretorfore, I thought it might be interesting. So far it has been.

Looks like it is targetted at laptops with one bay capable of handling 9mm drive thickness such as my T510 sans Ultrabay.,
 
I'd be interested in seeing if it'd be possible to use one in the PS4. Install the OS to the SSD portion and everything else to the platter. Not sure it's possible to have the OS on a separate partition or not... might not recognize the SSD or might ONLY recognize the SSD
 
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