No that's not how this era of hybrid SSD/HDD will work supposedly. Having that kind of control doomed the first generation because it created OS level dependencies which in turn created bugs.

Seagate began shipping its next-generation hybrid drive on Tuesday, the Momentus XT, which Seagate claims is three times faster than a "traditional" hard disk. The drive, which combines solid-state ...

After failing to gain market traction with its first iteration of hybrid drives three years ago, Seagate today announced a new hard-disk and solid-state combination drive with as much as 500GB of ...

Seagate is releasing its new third-generation hybrid hard drives today, with products aimed at ultrabooks, laptops, and desktop drives -- and their performance looks very good indeed.

Samsung's latest 990 EVO SSD is a new hybrid drive that supports both PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2, with up to 5GB/sec (5000MB/sec) reads.

4 drive bays are ideal for extra capacity and RAID options 8GB memory is recommended to avoid performance issues 5GbE support is great for faster transfer speeds, while SSD + HDD hybrid storage ...