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    question on the sony sz640

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by nynaeve2005, Sep 12, 2007.

  1. nynaeve2005

    nynaeve2005 Newbie

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    What is the difference between the standard 160 GB hard drive and the 160 GB hybrid hard drive...the hybrid has flash memory. What does flash memory do?
     
    nynaeve2005, Sep 12, 2007
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    Nanaki Notebook Evangelist

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    Essentially, it provides a small amount of storage for quick writes and retrievals of data, to speed up some tasks.

    But, if you had the option, I wouldn't bother buying it. The current generation hybrid drives have too little flash memory to give you any great performance increase.
     
    Nanaki, Sep 12, 2007
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