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To: slacker711 who wrote (32491)	6/13/2006 7:22:07 PM
From: inaflash	of 60323

"Hybrid disk drives or systems that implement a hybrid disk drive must meet the requirements outlined here," Would Robson technology with motherboard flash qualify as the latter? While Hybrid disk drives are a good stopgap, I've recently shifted my opinion to include the flash on the motherboard. On a laptop with only 1 disk drive, it's fairly indifferent. The logic/firmware for handling the flash can reside either in the disk drive, or in the OS, but more likely than not, it will be in the OS. If the system has 2 or more drives, managing the flash in the hybrid system becomes complicated. The OS can do a better job with a single flash stash on the motherboard and deal with the external plugin cards for the rest. Is there a big advantage to having flash on the hard drive?

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