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    new vaio option: hybrid hard drive or not?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jeremy6044, Sep 30, 2007.

  1. jeremy6044

    jeremy6044 Notebook Geek

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    according to this...

    http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/13/should_you_care_about_hybrid_hard_drives/page14.html

    it doesn't make much of a difference. though the decreased start up time seems pretty significant. i'd love to be able to boot up windows vista in only 20 seconds. i thought only macs booted that quickly.


    (another interesting point about that article is which drives have better performance and lower power consumption. any thoughts about that?)
     
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    My i1520 boots in under 20 seconds with a traditional hard drive...
     
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    Does that mean we should all go for the momentus, or stick with our stock hd?
     
    jeremy6044, Sep 30, 2007
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    20 seconds to get to the login screen or 20 seconds till your at the desktop and can start up a program ( like firefox )
     
    roor, Sep 30, 2007
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