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    Hybrid hard disk and Linux

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by trekzone, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. trekzone

    trekzone Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello there,

    I wonder about hybrid hard disks and Linux compatibility. I could not found any information at all about whether Linux supports them or not. All I could find was some unproved statements that only Vista does fully support these drives.
    Does anyone know about it?

    And as far as I have understand, these hybrid drives are a little faster, need a little to nothing less energy, but can reduce boot time significantly.
    Is that true?

    I look forward to hearing from you,
    Christoph
     
    trekzone, Feb 22, 2008
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  2. lambchops468

    lambchops468 Notebook Evangelist

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    :S Can't find any info either....

    we'll have to see how the interface works.
    if the harddrive does all the caching and whatever transparently in its own CPU, then there might be no new drivers needed...

    however, if it is required the os does some sort of special action then the kernel will need some new stuff.
     
    lambchops468, Feb 23, 2008
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    LunaC Newbie

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    It would seem you could just have the SSD portion partioned and span it with the main volume. As long as the files accessed during boot are on the solid state portion should be faster. We will see though
     
    LunaC, Feb 23, 2008
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  4. trekzone

    trekzone Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for your answers.
    Its really strange that there is no info about linux supporting it or not. I guess the reason is that not many people care about hybrid drives right now, and if there is no driver for the hybrid drive, the drive just will run in a non-hybrid mode, so it is no problem if there is no driver.
     
    trekzone, Feb 26, 2008
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