GoKawiilSeagate revives hybrid HDD-SSD storage with new Alkemi platform
Seagate has introduced Alkemi, a hybrid storage system that pairs a large mechanical hard drive with a smaller SSD, presenting them to users as a single storage pool. Unlike Apple's Fusion Drive from 2012, which relied on macOS to manage tiered 128KB data blocks, Alkemi handles data placement directly from the enclosure itself, automatically moving frequently used files to the SSD while the HDD stores larger libraries.