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It's two separate disks/units merged by the OS. That's my understanding, and in fact I expect that would make it work better in some ways. But if that's so -
by Lagged2Death 14y ago
It's two separate disks/units merged by the OS.
That's my understanding, and in fact I expect that would make it work better in some ways.
But if that's so - if it's two commodity pieces of hardware managed by some driver-level software - then it would make sense for it to be cheaper than the custom-hardware solutions from other sources. Or at least, we might expect the per-unit cost to Apple to be lower than the custom hardware systems.
So that just makes the alleged overpricing worse.
- mbreese 14y agoIt would only be cheaper if the components were the same. My Seagate hybrid drive has somwthing like 4-8GB of flash. Doesn't the Apple hybrid have 128GB?
- Lagged2Death 14y agoYes, 128GB for $250. But excellent 128GB SSDs can be had at retail for as little as ~$90 on sale. What does that 128GB drive - purchased in huge quantities directly from the manufacturer - cost Apple? Your Seagate hybrid isn't the only system of it's kind, it's not the comparison I had in mind.