Excellent article by Becky Waring on windowssecrets.com…hybrid drives were going to be the bridge between traditional platter drives and much faster solid state drives (SSD’s) a couple of years ago, but with specialized OS support necessary for them to function, and performance that wasn’t so hot, well, they fizzled.  Apparently Seagate never stopped developing the technology and now have released 2.5 inch laptop drives that are not that much more expensive than standard platter-only drives….if a disk upgrade for your laptop is in your future, it may be worthwhile to take a look.  Becky’s article is here: http://bit.ly/dBBGjt