Reviews - Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD (500GB)

[HEXUS]

Hard-disk capacity, solid-state speed, and all for under £60?

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[sykobee]

I think that these hybrid drives are in the ideal place between capacity and performance for many home users. 8GB does sound quite small, but if that includes everything you normally use day to day that's great.

Would be nice to get a 32GB flash version for a little more money though.

[jnutt]

I'll stick with my 256gb M4

[sirtrouserpress]

I love the concept of SSHD's but with only 8GB, thats not gunna hold much more than my operating system...

[Apex]

Thats cache ram, it's only used to cached the stuff thats used a lot the rest will sit on the spinning disk; you carn't access this 8gb directly the drive takes care of it all.

[Funkstar]

Sounds perfect for a netbook, will hold the swap file that gets hit constantly because of the 2GB limitation.

[Niskin]

I have the momentus XT in laptop that's samething I noticed a huge difference from std hard drive windows 7 boots in less than 10 secs..

They worth a look if you on a budget...

[jackjack]

just love this new hard drive SSHD, Thank for review

[krazy_olie]

8gb is a bit small but better than nothing and will help boot times a lot.
Not sure why caching hasn't been pushed more to be honest. Quite happy with the corsair accelerator I bought.

[Unique]

good price, but a 7200rpm 1tb one at about £100 would be a lot more preferable. i have a 750gb hyribd thats 7200rpm but the 1tb version that came out later was only 5400rpm which put me off upgrading. the higher density made up for the slower speed a bit but when SSD's are so prevailant i don't know why they didn't try and make the hybrid faster

[kingpotnoodle]

Ideal for keeping down the price of a budget media PC or laptop, boosting OS responsiveness for only a few £ more. I have a feeling it'd not show so much benefit on a heavily used workstation type machine though where much more than 8GB of data would be regularly used.

[3dcandy]

I do wonder what a couple RAID'd to give a 1Tb drive would perform like in a desktop?

[finnrogers]

For me, the best of both worlds in my laptop is having a cheap but plenty quick SSD for the OS and all my software then swapping out the optical drive for a caddy with a second regular hard disk fr media.I currently have a 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD with a 1TB HDD.

[minicale]

I think everyone agrees that it should have more then 8gb I think around 24gb would be where I would like to see it at

[Savas]

What benefits are there to this? Wouldn't it be just better to invest heavily in trying to bring the cost down on SSD's?

Sounds kind of counter productive to invest to bring a price drop, lol.

[loyal986]

I wish I could buy it in Serbia. But God knows when it will arrive here.