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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:58:43 +0700
From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
To: Vladimir Videscu <vladimir.videscu@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:44:35 +0300
Vladimir Videscu <vladimir.videscu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Good day. I have recently bought a Seagate Momentus XT for my laptop.
> 
> The specs for the drive are :
> 
> RPM : 7200
> Buffer : 32 MB
> HDD Memory : 750 GB
> SSD Memory : 8 GB
> 
> 
> I wish to install FreeBSD on it, but I wanted to ask this beforehand :
> 
> Would it would be possible to install it on the 8 GB SSD sector ?
> Would it work, and how would FreeBSD generally handle the SSD share
> of the memory ?
> 
isn't the SSD part 100% hidden? Doesn't the SSD work as a plain read
cache for the disk?

Erich