KW>  DL> SATA drive. The new drive went right in & hums right along.
 KW> Congrats -- sounds like you got a winner.
 KW> Assistive SATA technologies served a purpose, but now it seems like a
 KW> lot of hoops to go through, now that SSDs are getting cheap.

True. The system was from 2013...the m72 version of the system.

 KW> I bought a ton of Hybrid SATA drives, they were like having a SATA drive 
 KW> with 4GB of cache on the side. Boot up times were no faster than SATA,
 KW> but once you started loading your apps, they served out of the cache
 KW> instead of the spinning drives.

This was a plain jane SSD from Sanyo. Just a black box which weighed nothing.
Never having messed around with SSD's...was surprised how light it was. May
eventually find a use for it...especially on the RPi.

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