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kalvindeane · 12 Nov 2010 at 13:47

Are the any similar products on the horizon from rival companies, like Crucial or Samsung? If not, I'm pretty sure I'll buy one of the 500GB versions for my i7 rig

Andrew Moore · 12 Nov 2010 at 13:56

robnut said:
How would one of these pair up with an ssd main drive? Mainly for my steam + games.

Watch the Video mate, the drive is only a smidge slower than an SSD and actually loads Crysis a second quicker... Cant fault that at all!

kalvindeane said:
Are the any similar products on the horizon from rival companies, like Crucial or Samsung? If not, I'm pretty sure I'll buy one of the 500GB versions for my i7 rig

I believe Seagate are the only company with this tech at the moment built into a single drive. Nice healthy drives

Andy

kalvindeane · 12 Nov 2010 at 14:03

There was a big issue with the drive slowing down/turning off, did the firmware / driver update solve this?

Only reason I asked about Samsung and Crucial, is that they have a better rep then Seagate (at least from personal experience)

*edit* Some people still claim to be experiencing slow down problems. Will hold out until a mod replies

vti_786 · 12 Nov 2010 at 15:07

was thinking of getting something like this the other day, someone talked about them, very tempting indeed

kalvindeane · 12 Nov 2010 at 17:23

Sorry if I sound like a troll, but after a google search, these drives don't seem as fast or reliable as they are made out to be

Have you tested it in OcUK yet? Would like to see some benchies..

JasonM · 12 Nov 2010 at 18:06

Shame hybrid drives were not available sooner.

The performance increases won't normally show in benchmarks, as the hits on this data mean it won't normally be moved to the ssd part. For regular windows/applications loading you will see times similar to SSD.

They should be quite reliable as many reads will happen in SSD part (taking load of HDD part). If flash memory fails it won't really matter as all data is kept on HDD. The SSD part is only a cache to HDD part.

Trim is not required, and just doing a regular HDD defrag will flush the SSD part. This means you can RAID them up just like regular HDD drives with no degrade in performance.

I wan't one!

Andrew Moore · 15 Nov 2010 at 10:02

We shall have some results for you by the end of the day on a single drive and hopefully raid results at some point this week. In the real world these drives are looking to be fantastic value for the money as the performance they give is astonishing

Andy

mike gunnz · 15 Nov 2010 at 10:24

These look ideal for my Macbook Pro. SSDs are of zero interest to me due to the price per GB relative to HDDs but these Hybrids might strike a good compromise.

Lustral · 15 Nov 2010 at 11:40

I have the 500GB version in my Macbook , they are very quick compared to the standard 5400RPM drive that i had in there.

Only problem with these drives on a Macbook is that the latest SD23 Firmware versions dont power down to power save at all , so they will eat a bit of battery life out of your device.

I have a BootCamp of Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate on it as well , and it boots up real quick.

The 4GB SSD on there you dont see that all , its seemless.

Although they are a bit pricy , they are deff worth a look if you have a laptop/netbook, but as a desktop drive , you might as well get something else, cheaper and overall faster.

ukSleek · 15 Nov 2010 at 23:15

i'd pop one of these in my uMBP if i knew they would work? i see the post above has problems with the battery which is putting me off atm

CraigN · 16 Nov 2010 at 00:03

one of these would be awesome for my Steam folder

chaotic_uk · 17 Nov 2010 at 23:47

so would these be ok in a normal desktop ?

mike gunnz · 18 Nov 2010 at 10:35

Lustral said:
I have the 500GB version in my Macbook , they are very quick compared to the standard 5400RPM drive that i had in there.

Only problem with these drives on a Macbook is that the latest SD23 Firmware versions dont power down to power save at all , so they will eat a bit of battery life out of your device.

I have a BootCamp of Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate on it as well , and it boots up real quick.

The 4GB SSD on there you dont see that all , its seemless.

Although they are a bit pricy , they are deff worth a look if you have a laptop/netbook, but as a desktop drive , you might as well get something else, cheaper and overall faster.

Mac users also reporting it runs excessively hot, random freezing, excessive vibrations as well as the failure to power down issue.

In fact desktop and windows laptop owners are reporting the same bugs and others. The Seagate forums are worth looking at before purchasing imo.

littlepuppy · 18 Nov 2010 at 10:54

Andrew Moore said:
We shall have some results for you by the end of the day on a single drive and hopefully raid results at some point this week. In the real world these drives are looking to be fantastic value for the money as the performance they give is astonishing

Andy

Come on then!! its late!

Concrete · 22 Nov 2010 at 10:42

Any update on these drives and would they be suitable for a desktop machine? My HDD died at the weekend, so need to sort something asap!

NathWraith · 22 Nov 2010 at 11:31

Screenshots

Some benchies of 2 500gb drives in RAID0

Gibbo · 22 Nov 2010 at 11:34

Now those are fast!

fiveub · 22 Nov 2010 at 12:03

That is amazing, very quick drives.

Concrete · 22 Nov 2010 at 12:04

Ok I'm an idiot, simply put, would one of these (ie: not in RAID) be suitable for a desktop machines main drive. Or for the cost, would an Intel SSD + second drive be a better bet? Cheers for the response!

Cythx · 22 Nov 2010 at 12:07

How does the 500 GB model compare to 3 standard 7200 RPM drives in RAID?

I know the RAID array will produce more vibrations but speed wise, what's the difference?

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