***Now In Stock*** Western Digital Solid State Hybrid Drives

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Western Digital Caviar Blue 4TB 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s SSHD - (WD40E31X) @ £132.95 inc VAT

WD Blue Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHD) combine a generous amount of NAND flash SSD technology and massive HDD storage capacity into a single drive. WD engineers team up the best of SSD and HDD to produce a hybrid that can increase overall system performance – resulting in quicker system boots, faster application loads, and improved responsiveness when compared to traditional hard drives.


Specifications:-
- Capacity: 4000 GB
- Edition: Blue SSHD
- Form Factor: 3.5"
- Height: 25.4 mm
- Cache: 64MB
- Access Time: N/A
- Interface: SATA III - 6Gb/s
- Dimension: 69.85 x 9.5 x 100.2 (WxHxD mm)

Only £132.95 inc VAT.

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Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s SSHD - (WD10J31X) @ £68.99 inc VAT

WD Blue Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHD) combine a generous amount of NAND flash SSD technology and massive HDD storage capacity into a single drive. WD engineers team up the best of SSD and HDD to produce a hybrid that can increase overall system performance – resulting in quicker system boots, faster application loads, and improved responsiveness when compared to traditional hard drives.


Specifications:-
- Capacity: 1000 GB
- Edition: Blue SSHD
- Form Factor: 2.5"
- Height: 9.5 mm
- Cache: 64MB
- Access Time: N/A
- Interface: SATA III - 6Gb/s
- Dimension: 69.85 x 9.5 x 100.2 (WxHxD mm)

Only £68.99 inc VAT.

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[thebennyboy]

Great price on that 4TB drive.

 

[Armageus]

Still only 8GB of NAND for anyone interested, but review is still fairly decent:
http://www.storagereview.com/wd_blue_sshd_4tb_review

 

[Kelt]

Interested in one of these, but holding out for bigger nand versions.

 

[Bassadoor]

Great price!

 

[MrMarvelous]

Is it really that hard to for manufacturers to put the RPM speeds of their drives into their descriptions? I've trying to find out the RPM for the 2.5 driver and even WD's own website and PDF spec sheet doesn't have it. WTF.

 

[chippy08]

Is it really that hard to for manufacturers to put the RPM speeds of their drives into their descriptions? I've trying to find out the RPM for the 2.5 driver and even WD's own website and PDF spec sheet doesn't have it. WTF.

WD Blue WD10J31X 1TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Laptop SSHD Bare Drive

 

[tipes]

WD Blue WD10J31X 1TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Laptop SSHD Bare Drive

Take away speed by making it 5400rpm, and then add back with Nand - daft.
Think I will pass.

 

[ubersonic]

Haha, you gotta feel bad for Seagate, they spent years getting this niche off the ground and then WD just walk in "yup, we're aving some of this action!" XD

 

[Armageus]

Take away speed by making it 5400rpm, and then add back with Nand - daft.

Not really - 7200rpm laptop drives compromise power and noise, for a small improvement in transfer rate and access time. Whilst the Nand will do very little for the transfer rate loss, assuming the caching algorithm is decent enough, it more than offsets any loss in access time.

A bit more NAND would likely work wonders in these though (although I fine line vs the cost I would guess). A 2TB/64GB NAND version would be great for laptops and Playstations though

 

[koolpc]

I was told that SSHD drives were naff?

 

[Armageus]

I was told that SSHD drives were naff?

You were told wrong then

Yes they are not as quick as an SSD, but they bring SSD like qualities (e.g. improved boot speed, faster directory listings) to drive capacities that are otherwise expensive.

 

[NeostarNeko]

Where is the 3TB version?

 

[Hotwired]

I was told that SSHD drives were naff?

SSHD are probably the best thing for light use computers without going into the cost of a full SSD.

Load up the handful of used programs quickly and a bit of slower storage for media you rarely look at.

 

[thebennyboy]

I have an SSHD in my laptop and I can say it DOES make a difference to boot up times.