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Ever since NAND Flash began to take off, customers on a budget or with limited drive storage have had to make a choice between small pools of solid-state storage and larger, far slower, mechanical drives. The Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive is the company's first foray into the world of hybrid storage—products that combine solid stage and spinning media (typically referred to as an SSHD). In theory, this approach offers the best of both worlds—an ultra-fast NAND drive and a larger, 1TB magnetic storage pool behind it. In practice, there are some rough spots in the implementation.This is a drive that's designed to offer flexibility of a separate solution in a single form factor. That's an interesting idea, and Western Digital goes all out on the packaging and presentation of the unit.