Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: 3.5 Floppies
From:    Rob Mccart
Date:    Tue Mar 10, 2026 08:41

@VIA: CAPCITY2
PF>I went the other direction and took a Lenovo Chromebook, installed
  >SeaBIOS on it, and set it up with a Windows install. It was an odd one -
  >had a 16GB SSD in it and space for a SATA drive. When I loaded Windows
  >on the SATA drive, the 16GB SSD showed up as an intel cache for the
  >SATA. I'd played with this technology before, something called "Intel
  >Smart Response Technology"). Back in the day you could use it to get
  >faster speeds out of spinning SATA drives. I suppose it predated hybrid
  >SATA drives, which included the cache on the drive.

PF>I still have a 500gb hybrid SATA drive. I wonder what it would feel like
  >nowadays - I haven't had a system with a spinning drive since I don't
  >know how long -- 2014?

I don't think any of my spinning drives were SATA. I had the connectors
on the Motherboard but my drives were standard (IDE?).

The exception is my newer Laptop which I'm not really using yet,
it came with a 64 Gig SSD and I added a second 256 Gig SSD to it.

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