When Lenovo announced this new RapidDrive Technology that they’ve been working on during CES 2010, I was scoffed it off as another hybrid SSD + HDD implementation that wasn’t anything interesting. That is until I read up more about it from possibly Lenovo’s only article that talks about the technology in-depth – Introducing RapidDrive technology. I realized it wasn’t really just some cheap implementation that uses RAID 0 striping combining both physical drive into 1 “logical” drive, but possibly some interesting optimizations built on top of it to bring out the full potential of an SSD and HDD hybrid. Continue reading »
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