[timschmidt]

It also seems like a potential opportunity for hybrid flash hard drives, where the flash could take over the role of the CMR buffer region and reduce the amount of back-and-forth required of the drive's rw head, which should considerably increase performance.

[WithinReason]

This could even happen is SW with separate drives.

[mrkstu]

I assume Apple’s ‘Fusion’ drive tech is still active in their OS for backwards compatibility. It’d be interesting to try it on one of these drives.