SSHD

http://cdn.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording Are SSHDs any good? MSY has Seagate 8TB SSHDs for only $309. That's cheaper than a 6TB disk using regular technology, suspiciously cheap. I'm guessing that they use something like Shingled recording to improve the storage:price ratio and use the SSHD caching to allow decent performance without the OS optimising write patterns for it. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/