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by foysaluix 1807 days ago
This storage talk abut hybrid drives sounds a lot like 2010. This isnt new and SSDs are really not much more expensive than your regular HDD and they offer much more benefits. Its just that Apple charges you for 1 drive the price of at least 4 same drives if you were buying it on your own.
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This is for long term storage.

SSD has 0 benefits over spinning rust. and is still more expensive.

I can buy decent spinning rust 10TB disk anywhere, if i want that in ssd's, id need 5 drives, or start hinting for enterprise grade equipment.

So for me for raw storage (if you need more than a couple of TB's) spinningg rust is still the winner.