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Will running virtual machines from a hybrid SSD see a significant speed increase?

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Mar 15, 20262623 views
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I have virtual machines running off an external 7200rpm hard drive connected to a laptop with eSATA. I'd like to upgrade the drive to an SSD but can't afford one at the size I need. Would using a hybrid SSD for this purpose give a significant speed increase?

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Depends. Hybrid drives provide increased performance when there's a segment of the drive which is commonly accessed, and therefore which can be cached in flash. I would suspect that for a single vm, that would be faster, but for multiple VMs, each t…

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