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Hybrid storage is used when you store part of your data on solid state drive and part of it on a rotating harddisk.

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I have a dual drive hard disk(SSD+ HDD) and my ubuntu is installed on SSD, can I install windows on the HDD? [duplicate]

I have a dual drive disk(SSD+ HDD) and my ubuntu(20.04) is installed on SSD, I've been trying to install windows 10 on the HDD (I made two partitions, and left 1TB unallocated), but everytime, windows ...
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Hard drive too loud (encrypted hybrid HDD)

I'm using a hybrid hard drive on my Debian10/KDE machine. It's fully encrypted and the GNOME Disks tool says that the Disk is OK with all assessments having the status OK. My problem is that it's ...
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Is it possible to boot from a healthy SSHD salvaged from a different laptop

I have an SSHD that I removed from an older laptop I am positive that the drive is OK and not corrupted what so ever. the reason I removed it was that the old laptop's GPU burnt and is no longer ...
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What to do after installing new m.2 SSD in my laptop with existing HDD of 1 TB?

My laptop has an extra slot for M.2 SSD and has an existing HDD of 1 TB . My laptop takes about 1-2 minute to boot up and is slow to load applications like chrome . I wanted to know if I will need to ...
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Hybrid RAID (SSD+HDD) gives unexpected results

I am doing some experiments with hybrid RAID in Linux. My test consists of the following: 2x256GB SSD in RAID 0 (/dev/md1) 2x256GB HDD in RAID 0 (/dev/md2) Then I made md1 and md2 into a RAID 1 (/...
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SSD/HD Hybrid Disks

I am currently looking into getting a new hard-drive for my desktop. It is a small one, so it uses laptop HD form-factor. Currently, I have one storage drive that is a regular HD working at 5400RPM ...
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Hybrid drive: How does the system decide where files go, SSD vs. HDD, and can I change that?

I got a new laptop, my first with a hybrid drive. Only 128GB of SSD (which I was told is much faster than traditional hard drives) and nearly six times as much HDD. I've noticed that already well over ...
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Raspberry pi remote storage over mobile internet

Cannot find right tools to achieve fallowing: IP camera (hikvision) -> Raspberry pi as NFS/SMB server for camera -> 4G internet -> NAS (storage) backend Camera and raspberry pi is located ...
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700MB/s Write on SSHD? FreeNAS and $20 SATA Controler

Host: Proliant Ml350 G5 2X Xeon Quad-Cores @ 2.55Ghz 32Gb DDR2 ECC Storage Controller cheap $20 4 SATA port PCIe controller SERBIA I think Disk Seagate Iron Wolf 1TB SSHD Freenas 11.1 Ran a DD ...
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Very slow SSHD in AHCI mode affecting Windows only

Some time ago, a friend bought this ZEUSLAP laptop from AliExpress and she asked me to install Ubuntu alongside the original Windows 10. Relevant specs: 240GB SSD + 1TB HDD (this turned out to be an ...
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Can I disable cashing audio, video files on SSHD

My Win10 i5-5200 2,2GHz with RAM-8Gb becomes very slow :) I have 100Gb data on HDD in my notebook. So, replace HDD with SSD-256Gb would be more than enough for me. Another choice for the same ...
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SSHD/Hybrid drive flash size

I'm currently investigating changing my current laptop HDD for a hybrid or sold-state drive and for my price/performance requirements the current choice seems to be a 1TB Seagate Firecuda. As far as ...
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How to interpret S.M.A.R.T and Badblocks results

I have bought a used SSHD ( Seagate Laptop SSHD - ST500LM000-1EJ162 ) on ebay. Regarding to S.M.A.R.T the disk might be damaged somehow, I am not sure. To correctly interpret the S.M.A.R.T values, I ...
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Fresh SSD whilst keeping HDD for storage

I am planning on updating from an HDD only system to a SSD (OS + Applications) + HDD (Larger storage of files and some Applications). I currently have an HDD with Windows 7 on it, but am going to ...
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How to detect if probably counterfeit drive is SSHD (hybrid) at all

I bought a hard drive over the Internet, a 4TB Seagate SSHD (hybrid drive), but I have reason to believe that it is counterfeit. The label says "Desktop HDD", but it is supposed to be a SSHD model ...
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