So what makes it a "hybrid"? I was expecting from the title for this to be like a fusion drive, but it doesn't seem that way from the article?

 

says it here:

It is the use of built-in flash storage that turns it into it a hybrid, or a mutant, if you prefer

 

Shock test it :3

 

I bet with the right combination of velocity, flooring and attitude no SSD will stand to a willing enthusiast

 

The "Fusion" drive from Apple isnt really a hybrid. It is just a software mod in OSX that sends images and large files to the HDD instead of the low-capacity SSD.

This hybrid is different since it uses a cache to store important things to be accessed quickly. I really like WDs push for HDDs in a time of SSDs. They really need to get into SSDs if they want to survive.

 

I honestly though their "FusionDrive" was just a hybrid drive that's been branded. Is there something like that for windows?

 

Well, there are hybrid drives like the this Seagate one. But the Fusion drive is partitioned in a way to send large data to an HDD, and smaller, more accessed data to the SSD. A hybrid like the one I mentioned from Seagate, just has a cache to speed up strenuous tasks, mainly to make your PC boot faster.