Check this thing out:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190
It came up in some other threads.
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Check this thing out:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190
It came up in some other threads.
Thats true but with the WD it's all in one enclosure. You'll need to either remove an optical or put together some type of kludge to get a dual drive setup in most units. I agree that the price is a little on the high side, and then there's the weird setup they have for it. WD has never been particularly gracious to Mac users IMHO.
it's a gradual movement. https://forums.macrumors.com/members/grahamperrin.109331/ for occasional updates (my visits to MacRumors Forums will be rare).Back to hybrids, for anyone with an interest in OpenZFS on OS X: Intel is working on ways to isolate large block file data from metadata for ZFS on Linux … that's from Don Brady (who spent two decades with Apple).
Back to hybrids, for anyone with an interest in OpenZFS on OS X: Intel is working on ways to isolate large block file data from metadata for ZFS on Linux … that's from Don Brady (who spent two decades with Apple).
Out of curiosity, have you played with El Capitan? If so, what are your impressions.
Never. 10.10 killed my interest in the future of OS X
Well, FWIW, El Capitan is appearing to be another "beta release" let out about a year early. Yosemite is finally now appearing to be stable (it took a year), but it, of course, still looks the way it did. Slight 3D effects, contrast changes, and font changes have helped El Capitan look better than Yosemite.
I've found that the "washed out" look was apparently intentional (a brilliant design idea). An acquaintance recently converted their web site from desktop to hybrid desktop/mobile site. Originally it used dark gray colored fonts. When they looked at it with an iPhone running iOS 7 the fonts appeared to be nearly light gray, to the point of being difficult to read. I told them to look at it in Yosemite and had the same problem. They had to darken the color of all their fonts to offset the apparent deliberate color shifts introduced by the OS. I think anyone doing photographic or graphics work on Yosemite could end up making images that are too dark when displayed on other OSes and hardware.
Anyway, those problems appear gone in Yosemite. El Capitan looks better than it but it still has the childish overall appearance IMHO. After having used these "improved" interface based versions I fully understand the complaints you made about the lack of title bar and full links not showing up in the newer Safari's.
Yosemite looked like it was designed by a 10 year old, El Capitan looks like it was designed by a 15 year old. Perhaps in two or three more iterations it will look "normal."
i couldn't tolerate Yosemite, but I can tolerate, barely, El Capitan.
Still sticking with the old OSes.
i couldn't tolerate Yosemite, but I can tolerate, barely, El Capitan.
Still sticking with the old OSes.
That's probably because it doesn't work very well, and now the dumbing down is getting downright idiotic.
Getting back on topic, it appears that the WD "dual drive" with both a full SSD and an HDD in one enclosure is no longer being made. I went to WD's site and couldn't find it listed anywhere any longer. Maybe I just missed the page, but I don't think so.
It's gone. When I learned about that thing I went to the site and saved the link. When I went back, it now forwards me to the main page, so I guess they stopped making it. I was a little pricey for what you got, with some selling it for over $200.
Samsung 240GB SSDs are now selling for just over $80. How long will it be before a 500GB SSD is selling for that? I think that the hybrid or even dual SSD/HDD type drives mentioned in this post are going to be a complete thing of the past. A lot of people don't need any more than 240GB of drive space.
That may be true for people who don't need that much space, but for others it renders an SSD-only system out of the question. I do development work and our development systems can have up to 8 different volumes to host different OS versions. With Apple now producing OS releases on a yearly basis, for reasons known only to God, doesn't help. The fact that even a basic Xcode 7 project seems to require nearly 1GB of drive space at a minimum doesn't help either. Photographers and videographers I'm sure run into similar space constraints. Add in an SSD's ability to just drop all its contents when it either fails or hits some glitch and yet another minus comes up. Our typical development volumes are usually at a bare minimum 80GB, but often 250GB.
WD is selling SSHDs with an 8GB NAND flash and 64MB buffer. Specs:
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-800061.pdf
For some reason I thought they were making SSDs too, but apparently not. 8GB of flash just doesn't sound like it would be of that much help, but then again I've never owned one.
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-800061.pdf
For some reason I thought they were making SSDs too, but apparently not. 8GB of flash just doesn't sound like it would be of that much help, but then again I've never owned one.
With SSDs falling in price, at least for low end ones, you'd think they could easily put 32GB onto a hard drive. Of course that would sort of kill the need for a Fusion Drive......
The future may be at hand for mass storage coupled with SSDs: Western Digital has purchased SanDisk.
The future may be at hand for mass storage coupled with SSDs: Western Digital has purchased SanDisk.
That could possibly put an abrupt end to Fusion Drives.
For some use cases, tiering controlled by the operating system will remain preferable to what's possible with an SSHD. So I doubt that Fusion Drive options will disappear in the near future.
For most companies that's probably true, but Apple? Remember, these are the guys that eliminated expose, the active backup drive icons, eliminated the display icon in the menu bar, and dumbed down Disk Utility so severely (El Capitan) that it's now more a source of complaints than help, and that's just a few. Since the current goal of OS X seems to be to keep dumbing down everything, I can't see it lasting.
Once you bite into that apple, it's yours to keep. For Apple to get rid of the Fusion they would probably have to stop installing them in systems, then wait 10 years for all the systems using them to die off, and then finally discontinue it. To convert a Fusion to a non-Fusion system would require that the user back up all data, reconfigure the drives as a two drive setup, then likely manually start restoring. I suppose Apple could do this sort of thing automatically but I can't imagine the process being pretty.
An interesting prospect might be if WD started internally tiering a fairly large SSD with a larger HDD. I think there was something about that mentioned in this and other threads (the now discontinued WD "dual drive" setup) but that relied on WD's own software for management. If the tiering between SSD and HDD was controlled by the controller and presented itself to the OS as a single drive, making it OS independent, it would more or less be the near equivalent of a Fusion drive.
Maybe, but Apple didn't have any qualms about obsoleting a bunch of fairly new Mac Pro's when they went 32 to 64 bit EFI.