A 2 TB hybrid drive with 8 GB of solid -
state cache memory will be more expensive than a simple 2 TB mechanical drive, but likely less expensive than a 256 GB solid - state drive with even less total space.
Not exact matches
The base model comes with a 7th Generation Intel Core i3 - 7100U processor (3 MB
cache, up to 2.4 GHz), 4 GB of
memory and a 128 GB solid -
state hard drive.
With a total of 8 CPU cores and 12 MB of onboard
cache, plus up to 8 GB of
memory and solid
state hard drives, the W260 is capable of massive data throughput.
Both come with a dual - core 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 - 2467M processor, 4 GB of DDR3
memory, a 500 GB hard drive with 16 GB of solid
state storage
cache, a 1366 x 768 display, integrated Intel graphics and a webcam.
And a
cache drive like Optane
Memory is designed to make a hard disk feel like a solid
state disk in normal, everyday tasks.
A handful of hard drives already use the same tactic (and have for years), although the
cache in those drives was made up of traditional solid
state memory, not Intel's fancy new Optane hardware.
Further, a
memory -
caching improvement should increase in speed by a «couple orders of magnitude,» the release
states.