The SUV features a front-mounted diesel engine paired with an electric motor in a traditional hybrid configuration, plus a second, more powerful electric motor in the rear to drive those wheels in the back.

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Other approaches create a hybrid storage configuration where flash and HDDs act like a single storage system.

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While there will be some all flash computers, buying a useful amount of storage capacity at an affordable cost for most users will require combining flash memory with HDDs, either as a hybrid HDD or in a dual storage configuration.

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This unique solution maintains traditional Drobo ease-of-use in that the configuration, provisioning, and performance optimization of the hybrid storage is completely automated.

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