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Amazon has the Seagate ST750LX003 Momentus XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid Drive for $179 with free shipping. Features SSD-like performance with hard drive capacity, Adaptive Memory technology to optimize performance, and claims 80 percent faster performance than traditional 7200RPM drives in benchmark scores. Newegg also has it for the same price.
$179
Man up and buy a REAL SSD for this kind of money.
Why, have you looked at the test between this and 100% SSDs? This has SLC for those SSDs with MLC. And to top it off, are you going to give us the coin to buy a 750 GB SSD? Performance wise, this can be as good as a 100% SSD with more GB and will not fail as all the other SSDs out there seem to be. Good luck getting rip off by those memory companies selling you a $1 bag of goods for $100.
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Real SSD is unreliable. They have trouble waking up for higher sleep states. SSD blue screens often. Personal experience from Patriot Inferno series. I'm not the only one either.
The hybrid drive recognizes which files you open often and will save those in its SSD memory. It performs like a regular hard drive at first, then speeding up closer to SSD speeds. Though the hybrid's SSD capacity is quite small, so you cant get that speed on everything -- mostly booting up and common applications.
I've been using Crucial for a year now and never had a problem with it 
I recommend Crucial, Samsung, and Intel.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hybrid-hard-drive-flash-ssd,3116.html
@blackstones83 - I'm sorry to hear that. Though you should rephrase that to "Sandforce SSD is unreliable," I would agree with you
Depending on your work load and habits, you might see no difference between a 750gb ssd and this hybrid. On the other hand you might see no difference between this and a normal 750gb 7200 rpm spindle only drive....
If all you do is get on your computer and browse youtube/facebook/email, type a paper or two every now and then, play 1-2 different games, store lots of mp3s/vids and need need an extra umph, then this would be the drive for you. Because you are only using an OS, browser, word, and those 1-2 games they will load quick. as long as you aren't constantly moving large files, lots of small files, or reformatting your computer every day.
Otherwise a pure spindle hdd or ssd would be your best option depending on your budget, and use of course.
Only you know your own usage, and can judge if this will be a great drive for you or not. If #1 was right we would all be using revo 3 1TB pci-e drives, i7 3960Xs OC'd to 5.5Ghz on sub zero cooling, 64GB ram 4x crossfired 6970s, 6x 30in 2560x1600 lcds, 10GbE lan connections, OC3 internet connection and using 7.1 1000 watt sound systems.
You'll definitely see a difference between this and any decent > ~ 64GB SSD, though in some uses it's still quite a bit faster than a 7200RPM 2.5" drive.