[PLUG-TALK] SSHD accelerated drives Re: SSD lstat ...

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:49:10 -0800
Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> dijo:

>On a slightly different subject, rotating magnetic disk
>hard drives with substantial solid state "caches" are
>far less expensive than pure solid state drives.  I'm
>about to deploy a Seagate ST1000LM014 laptop drive, with
>1000 GB of disk and 8 GB of NAND flash.  Supposedly,
>the drive uses the NAND flash as a cache for frequently
>read sectors.
>
>I have no idea how well it will perform with Linux;
>perhaps it is incompatible, or optimized for Windows,
>or optimized for new versions of Windows designed to
>work with such drives.

I ordered my System76 laptop with one of those. It works seamlessly
with Linux - just install it, partition and format as desired, and
there you go.

I have never bothered to test it for speed.