Hybrid Drive

slater86 · 31 Dec 2010 at 09:36

This could be a stupid question but these new hybrid drives look pritty fast on the video at bottom.

Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid SATA-II 2.5" 7200RPM 32MB
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=1894

My question is will it be good to use on a desktop machine cos most of the reviews i read take about laptops hard drive replacement.

The drive is much cheaper an you get more space for your money an there is not that much of a speed differece.

anyone so is it good to run on a high spec desktop pc ? playing games no

danielanthony · 31 Dec 2010 at 09:48

I've got one in my laptop, gets 5.9 Windows experience index. Had 4 in RAID0 on my main PC but had stuttering issues when playing games even though on latest firmware, that got 6.1 in Windows experience.

I'm sending the 4 I have in RAID0 back under DSR as they're no good for gaming, the one in my laptop can stay as I don't game on that and general Windows performance is ok.

Plenty of complaints about these drives can be found on the Seagate forums.

superflyguy · 13 Jan 2011 at 22:00

The new Firmware SD24 needs installed on these drives to eradicate stuttering and other issues.

They work great once thats done, pretty nippy little drive for a 2.5" HDD.

kmufc77 · 13 Jan 2011 at 22:05

superflyguy said:
The new Firmware SD24 needs installed on these drives to eradicate stuttering and other issues.

They work great once thats done, pretty nippy little drive for a 2.5" HDD.

This^

I have one for my games drive and they are great little drives and very fast.

Andrew Moore · 13 Jan 2011 at 22:20

Id recommend this if your not wanting to part heavy cash on an SSD but want a little more than just a standard HDD. These are good for the OS but are not the best for games unless the games that are played are constantly played.

Dano · 13 Jan 2011 at 23:52

superflyguy said:
The new Firmware SD24 needs installed on these drives to eradicate stuttering and other issues.

They work great once thats done, pretty nippy little drive for a 2.5" HDD.

Just ordered one for my Father so thank you for the heads up on this, I'll make sure his gets updated before anything else