Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 7, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric

Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-08 Thread Fabrice Vaillant
On 02/08/2014 02:45 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/07/2014 04:39 PM, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: I have used the same kind of drive as a main drive on my laptop. While I have no proof that the extra nand where used, I tend to think they were. There wasn't any extra drive showing in gparted or other

harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-07 Thread Ric Moore
Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in

Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-07 Thread Fabrice Vaillant
I have used the same kind of drive as a main drive on my laptop. While I have no proof that the extra nand where used, I tend to think they were. There wasn't any extra drive showing in gparted or other tool. Plus those nand are used by the drive to store most used file and quicken the loading