mlts22 wrote:
... What I might look into as a drive upgrade on a laptop is the WD Black2, which is a 1TB HDD and a 120 GB SSD, both in one physical unit. This way, the OS and critical applications can go on the SSD, while everything else winds up on the HDD.
I was looking into one of these as well since it sounds intriguing. However, after some reading, I've pretty much decided against it. The ssd part of it is just an average performer (decent read times, slow writes) and the hdd part of it is only a 5400rpm drive. There is only 1 SATA connector that the 2 sides share and the machine will only "see" the ssd until some proprietary WD software is loaded to enable access to the hdd side. Because the 2 sides share a single SATA interface, performance suffers if the machine is attempting to access the ssd and the hdd at the same time.
For slightly more money, I've pretty much decided to go with a Samsung EVO 500G ssd instead. I don't really need 1TB+ of storage in my laptop, 500G is plenty and the Samsung will provide higher performance than the WD hybrid.