[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]The point has been lost with this one...This is intended as an intermediate storage device. SSDs are too expensive and too small. HDDs are cheap and spacious, but slow. This bridges the gap. Whether or not it bridges the gap well is another story altogether. We need more information about it in actual use. What goes on the SSD portion and what goes onto the HDD. How is it controlled, what are the benches, etc. Need more information.[/citation]
i have an sata ports. ssds dont need to write or read fast, but have next to no seek time, thats what makes them feel so fast.
but i done get who this is for?
the pcie thing is cool for people like me with sata2 ports and not 3 to take full advantage of the read and write, but that doesn't really matter as i said above.
the ssd drive isnt the best to speak of, as i see stand alone ones that go some where double their io operations,
and the hdd is weighty and small you can get a 2tb hdd for 1-150$ a 1tb for 70ish, and a 500gb for 40$ cut that off the 350 base model price and you come out with 310$ or better put, $5.10 per gig... now not to complain, but isn't that what higher end ssds cost? and you aren't getting high end performance.
this is unimpressive all around, not just for what it is.
the ssd is expensive and under preforms, and takes up a pcie slot, and even than you just get faster read writes on older motherboards.
who is this marked to?