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...not as in "how they work" or "what's the purpose", rather why only Seagate actually moved to slap proper 32GBs of SLC NAND in one 2.5'' drive at one point and see the performance actually two-fold the usual 8GB SSHDs and then discontinue them, Toshiba and WD doing nothing different.
Considering PCB real-estate, the 3.5'' drives make even less sense.
I would consider it would be a standard for non-RAID oriented HDDs by now to just be SSHDs, caches primary and secondary growing accordingly, besides the capacity.
Realistically, I would expect a 2TB+64GB+1GB 2.5'' drive to exist by now, for the same price of a 1TB TLC SSD, caching supplanting spin speed to match SSD burst transfers, then capacity to cover the price-point vs. SSD's raw speed.
A FireCuda is 2TB+8GB+128MB.
Economically, does it make it that noncompetitive or unfeasible to manufacture and sell?
Is there someone in this forum from the industry that can answer me that?
I just keep seeing them being sold as FireCudas and, honestly, besides making great external drives, or just plain cheap high capacity storage to add to any machine, I don't get why it's tech that doesn't evolve.
Considering PCB real-estate, the 3.5'' drives make even less sense.
I would consider it would be a standard for non-RAID oriented HDDs by now to just be SSHDs, caches primary and secondary growing accordingly, besides the capacity.
Realistically, I would expect a 2TB+64GB+1GB 2.5'' drive to exist by now, for the same price of a 1TB TLC SSD, caching supplanting spin speed to match SSD burst transfers, then capacity to cover the price-point vs. SSD's raw speed.
A FireCuda is 2TB+8GB+128MB.
Economically, does it make it that noncompetitive or unfeasible to manufacture and sell?
Is there someone in this forum from the industry that can answer me that?
I just keep seeing them being sold as FireCudas and, honestly, besides making great external drives, or just plain cheap high capacity storage to add to any machine, I don't get why it's tech that doesn't evolve.