Nördnytt! 🤓Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions
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- linsomniac - 20340 sekunder sedanI've often wondered why there aren't any (that I'm aware of anyway) Linux hierarchical storage managers (HSM). I realize they are typically used in big iron with things like tape as the base level of storage, but especially when it looked like Optane was going to be a thing it seemed like spinning<->SSD<->Optane<->RAM could be a huge performance opportunity. Though, I guess that's a "layering violation"... Honestly, at this point we've gone almost entirely SSD except for our ZFS backup servers, and that layering violation already has an SSD and RAM cache in it...
- GaryBluto - 882 sekunder sedanIt's neat, but isn't it more of mixed-medium RAID-like setup than a "hybrid" drive? Especially since the SSD isn't included.
- dabinat - 10541 sekunder sedan> …comes in 8TB ($699) or 20TB ($899) HDD configurations—neither of which includes the required SSD.
The 8TB version seems like very poor value for money. For comparison, Amazon is selling 24 TB Seagate Exos drives for $799.
- Grombobulous - 3786 sekunder sedanIf you have to provide your own SSD, I would think that the target audience already knows how to set up a cache disk in their NAS solution of choice, and they'd save a bunch of money that way.
- robotnikman - 17176 sekunder sedanI used to have one of their 2.5in hybrid drive in a laptop. Seemed to work well for games. But once SSD's became cheap the tech was not longer worth it. Also, 2.5in drives topped out at 2TB of storage, while NVME and 2.5 Sata SSD's continued to grow in size.
- mikae1 - 18108 sekunder sedan> According to PCServerParts, a Seagate Exos 24TB drive that sold for $298.99 in the summer of 2025 was priced at $699.99 by August 2026.
Spoiled Americans. That drive is $1393 (14160 SEK) here in Sweden now[1]. A year ago it was 4160 SEK...
Three times as expensive in 12 months seems true for most drives.
I'm just praying no drives in my NAS are going to crap out anytime soon...
- liquid_thyme - 13158 sekunder sedanIsn't this (architecture) basically like a NAS w/ SSD caching ? (w/ the caveat of not being on the network obviously)
- kotaKat - 16918 sekunder sedan"According to Seagate’s press release, the Alkemi intelligent storage platform takes a different approach. Where Apple’s Fusion Drives used tiering managed by macOS, Alkemi manages the storage pool directly from the enclosure."
Soooooo... it's gonna be like the old days of Drobo, where a little VXworks box did all the heavy lifting of BeyondRAID and transparently exposed it as a big ol' block device to your OS? Good times.
- debrisontrack - 15181 sekunder sedanThe only relevant question seems to be "will these prices ever go down?"
- kogasa240p - 1581 sekunder sedanHybrid drives are back? Thought they faded into obscurity a decade ago but it makes sense that they're returning.
>Users will have to bring their own SSD
uhhhhhhhh