Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid
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They are very good for running the same data (OS) and a game you play over and over again but the issue is they are no faster than a normal HDD if you were to play a game that hadn't been use don the PC before. Once you've loaded it a couple of times it'll be faster so they are worth the premium over a conventional HDD provided you dotn expect instant gains.
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I got one in my laptop and it runs ok, gets 5.9 in Windows experience.
HOWEVER, I just bought 4 of these for a RAID0 array in my main PC and have found that games dont run properly due to freezing issues, not noticeable in Windows apps but in games it really is annoying. I have upgraded all drives to the latest SD24 firmware too. I'm sending the drives back under DSR, the one in my laptop has been ok but as I don't game on it I haven't noticed the issue. This is well documented on the Seagate forums.
HOWEVER, I just bought 4 of these for a RAID0 array in my main PC and have found that games dont run properly due to freezing issues, not noticeable in Windows apps but in games it really is annoying. I have upgraded all drives to the latest SD24 firmware too. I'm sending the drives back under DSR, the one in my laptop has been ok but as I don't game on it I haven't noticed the issue. This is well documented on the Seagate forums.
small SSD
Think of the small SSD as a large cache. Every time your computer accesses data, it is copied over to the SSD. If you are accessing the same data over and over, then that is going to be pretty quick. Thats exactly why it would speed up the OS boot times, as pretty much the same files are always accessed at boot time.
Just remember, the SSD is only 4GB. Larger games are going to be left on the 'normal' part of the hdd. I think for your purposes, you would be better off investing in a fast hard disk, or consider two smaller disks and put them in raid 0.
Think of the small SSD as a large cache. Every time your computer accesses data, it is copied over to the SSD. If you are accessing the same data over and over, then that is going to be pretty quick. Thats exactly why it would speed up the OS boot times, as pretty much the same files are always accessed at boot time.
Just remember, the SSD is only 4GB. Larger games are going to be left on the 'normal' part of the hdd. I think for your purposes, you would be better off investing in a fast hard disk, or consider two smaller disks and put them in raid 0.
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Funny, in my laptop with a single 5400RPM WD drive I get 5.8
A few people reported problems with these drives, there was a long thread on here at the time of release that might be worth checking out.