Errrmm, what? I clearly remember WD telling that its new hybrid Blacks will use special caching software... looks like either they couldn't get it working or the results were poor... I am not happy at all with such "solution" =( Yes, this drive has some potential market, but its value is hugely diminished for me... Also - Jmicron controller... 2 available volumes over one connection... (I am not saying it will be saturated, I am more worried about the complexity of tech\firmware of doing so...) Well, let's wait for benchmarks and reviews... also some benchmarks of available current SSD caching software will be nice... Update: May be this Black^2 is simply another category of drives?... and we will see a "proper" Hybrid Black in the nearest future...

$299 is too expensive. You can buy a 120GB SSD and 1TB mechanical, separately, for less.

I don't get hybrid drivers. User himself knows better what frequent software he/she uses and what requires speed. Buying separate HDD/SSD as sykozis mentioned, makes much more sense.

those 8gb ssd with 2tb drives at 120€ are pretty good for gaming imo. faster then traditional huge drives and way cheaper then ssd's by far and offer nice speed boost.

$299 is too expensive. You can buy a 120GB SSD and 1TB mechanical, separately, for less.

Yeah, but you can't fit them both into a laptop with only 1 2.5" drive slot. Also, PCPer has a nice review with benchmarks: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Western-Digital-Black2-Dual-Drive-Full-Review-120GB-SSD-1TB-HDD-single-25-package

Yeah, but you can't fit them both into a laptop with only 1 2.5" drive slot.

That's exactly it. I don't know why anybody would put them in desktops (unless it's some tiny mATX box), but I might be interested in getting one of these for my 15" laptop with only a single HD slot. But the price would need to be a bit more interesting, and partially for that reason 120+500 would be enough for me. Since I would just get a 250GB SSD otherwise, due to pricing and the fact I don't need so much space.

Rumor has it that this is to thick to even fit in a laptops hdd bay.

$299 is too expensive. You can buy a 120GB SSD and 1TB mechanical, separately, for less.

Yeah, But does your laptop have room for two hard drives? most don't. Also, I can see this being a good solution for people with a PS4 once the price gets a little better. Well... that's if the PS4 will allow a drive like this to function.

Rumor has it that this is to thick to even fit in a laptops hdd bay.

Rumor has it you just made that up out of thin air. If you read the article, it clearly says the drive fits in 9.5mm high locations.