[mistercow]

(And, actually, files that are readily streamed, like videos, aren't necessarily files you'd want to store on the SDD. Those can often – though, yes, not always – be read quite quickly from the HDD. Unless you're dealing with truly huge files, or actively editing a video, you don't need SDD throughput.)

Hmm, I hadn't noticed that they're only doing this on desktops, so I was thinking there in terms of energy efficiency. On a laptop, you definitely want that video to get copied over to the SSD so that the HDD can spin down and stop draining your battery. On a desktop, I guess you wouldn't care as much.

[spullara]

Most video files could probably be cached in ram at this point anyway.