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having your cake and eating it too can be pretty tough to pull off and that's especially true when it comes to computer components where builders have to deal with the eternal balancing act between price and performance in particular storage prevents us with two diametrically opposed do I want the speed of an SSD for a higher price or the capacity of a hard drive with the caveat that it comes with slower performance although most desktop cases can easily fit one of each which is indeed a popular compromise what if you have a laptop with only one drive slot or you just really care about having your OS and a few important applications launch quickly and you don't mind waiting a few extra seconds to load your steam library or all that unfinished fan art you've been working on in that case a solid-state hybrid drive or an sshd might be the right choice for you they aren't called that because they just run off a mix of gasoline and electricity just think of the fumes that would build up inside your case but because they contain both spinning disk platters like you'd find in a traditional hard drive and the same NAND flash and a controller that you would find in an SSD outwardly hybrid drives might seem very similar to regular hard drives they use the same two and a half or three and a half inch form factor and plug into a single SATA port but inside a special controller manages both the NAND flash and the magnetic platters so the hybrid Drive appears as just one drive to your operating system rather than as a separate hard drive and SSD the firmware is also in charge of determining what data will be stored in the flash sells for quicker access and what will instead be placed onto the slower spinning platters over time the drive will actually learn what files are accessed most frequently and will automatically place those files in flash memory for you know input from the user required of course the all-in-one convenience of a hybrid Drive does come with some limitations the flash memory capacity is usually quite small typically no more than 32 gigabytes so if you need quick access to lots of programs and data a full fat SSD paired with the conventional hard drive may be a better setup for you hybrid drives also won't give you the performance boost from the flash storage right off the bat since they have to take time to learn what data should be put in the nand cells for quick access they start out being not much if at all faster than a regular mechanical drive and you unfortunately cannot manually tell a typical sshd to place specific things onto the flash portion still though you get the advantages of paying much less than you would for a standalone solid-state drive as well as ease of use for novice builders or tinkerers who want a performance boost without having to deal with multiple drives or deciding what needs to go where on their own so if you need a lot of relatively cheap storage with a little extra pep for your next upgrade don't overlook hybrid drives after all they're not just for Prius drivers speaking of your next upgrade let's say for example you're building a mobile app and you're looking for a payment solution so you can monetize your mobile app check out Braintree at the link in the video description there V dot zero SDK is one amazingly simple integration that gives you but more accurately the people who use your app every way to pay and developers around the world have embraced the V dot zero SDK is the easiest way to add secure mobile payments to their apps and websites Braintree accepts Apple pay Android pay PayPal then no credit cards even Bitcoin and if something new pops up going to support that too and they're used by uber Airbnb and github which means yeah my friends it is scalable and integrating it into your app is as easy as inserting a few lines of code try out the sandbox learn more about Braintree and get this get your first fifty thousand dollars in transactions fee free at Braintree payments comm slash tech quickie linked in the video description thanks for watching guys if you like the you'll like it if you just liked it dislike it if you want to check out our other channels boom you can check them out over there the little eye in the corner leave a comment if you have suggestions for future guys as possible then as always don't forget to subscribe and follow and all that good stuff