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Some shots of the hybrid WD Black2. Pretty neat looking drive if you’re considering to replace your internal notebook storage. Windows only. The drive has no software for Mac or Linux though.

Overview of the WD Black2 Dual Drive

This is a 2.5" (9cm) 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD packed into one unit, meant for laptops although you can certainly use it as an external drive as well. Still, it’s primarily recommended as a main storage drive replacement for those who want large capacity laptop drives. 

The combination of SSD and HDD will allow people to have a relatively fast boot drive containing the operating system and applications while also having a large storage drive for general purpose all in one hybrid unit with a single mSATA connection.

Unfortunately I can’t use this drive properly because of a few reasons:

1. The software that accompanies the drive, which is available on the USB stick or from the website, only runs on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and it’s important because the 1TB HDD portion can only be unlocked with that software.

2. I don’t have a Windows machine. My household is all Macs. Yes I can run Windows on Boot Camp but I don’t find too much use out of having it.

You can read more about it on WD’s product page and the FAQ is useful for those who have more questions about the drive.

AnandTech isn’t too happy about this drive but MaximumPC gave it a pretty good rating.