[dba-Tech] Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive

Arthur,

The original announcement about the drive said that it had some mechanized 
to place the most used files on the SSD portion. I can't imagine how that 
would work but perhaps if you opened Word for example, 2 or 3 times it might 
move it to the SSD until something else was used more but I have no idea how 
to determine that.  Everything worked better including loading VS 2010, I'm 
sure the 7200 RPM contributes to that. I'm very happy with it , and if it 
starts to go bad or fails completely I'd get another one.

Bill

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Fuller
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:55 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive

Thanks, both of you. Bill, since you note a big difference in boot time,
while Dan points out that you can't specifically point the install to the
SSD part of the drive, do you think that Seagate simply figures it out, or
notes that Windows falls into the "frequently used" category and moves it
there after a few uses? Or some other way?

A.
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