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Seagate's flash cache drive rocket

A user of the flash cache-enabled Seagate Momentus XT drive reports a tenfold improvement in PhotoShop application load time and three times faster startup. It is only anecdotal evidence from one user on his amnesiablog but it is compelling. He has a Windows 7, Core2Duo notebook with 2GB of RAM and replaced the had drive with …

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20 seconds to open PowerPoint? I open it faster than that on my Atom netbook...

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