Windows 7 Won't Save Hybrid Hard Drives

    Windows 7 Won't Save Hybrid Hard Drives


    Posted: 10 Mar 2009
    Windows 7 apparently won't resuscitate the market for hybrid hard drives, which flickered out around the end of 2007. At the end of a meeting with Jon van Bronkhorst, executive director of product marketing for the consumer solutions business at Seagate, I asked whether or not hybrid hard drives stood a chance of coming back. The short answer? No.
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    Airbot's Avatar Posted By: Airbot
    10 Mar 2009



 

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