These may be promising, because they "automatically" determine what should be in flash, v. on the platter.
But the price doesn't bear this out:
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Originally Posted by http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/seagate-announces-hybrid-ssd-and-hdd-drive/2010-05-25
The new Momentus XT is available in capacities such as 250GB, 320GB and 500GB, and priced at just $133, $122 and $156 respectively.
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Two 500G's cost more than one 1T 7200 RPM drive plus one 128G flash. The two 500G's will contain a total of only 8G of flash. That's assuming that they sell for full price, which of course won't be true for long. But SSDs are coming down in price very quickly.