Seagate 1tb SSHD at just $99 each! Plus $4 fixed delivery (doesn't matter how many you buy). Only @ NetPlus!
No doubt there will be questions relating to what this is and how good it is. It is basically a Hybrid 7200RPM desktop Hard Drive with an 8gb SSD built in - so in effect, you get a huge capacity SSD speed at hard drive price. But I will leave how good it is up to the comments.
More stocks arriving in the morning so order away.
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It's going to function more like a cache. I presume your reads will be blazingly fast but your writes will be normal hard drive speeds.
I believe the 8GB acts like a cache, storing the most often used portions of files on the 1TB drive there to speed up their retrieval. So if this drive was used as a boot drive, the windows system files would be stored in this location, theoretically speeding up boot times. Not sure how well it works in practice though.
You don't see the 8GB. You see a single 1TB disk that automatically caches the most used data on the 8GB.
I've got a 750GB hybrid in a laptop. It's not as fast as a pure SSD but it's faster than a non-hybrid disk.
got one in my laptop as well.
It does make the laptop run smoother and still have relative higher capacity.
Also want to put one in my all-in-one Touch screen PC but i need to remove roughly 50 screws before i can change it :-\
You don't see the 8GB. You see a single 1TB disk that automatically caches the most used data on the 8GB.
Does this require software to do, or is it done automatically built into the firmware? I'm not sure Windows would know how to make this happen or even know that it's a SSHD and not a standard HDD.
you don't need to do anythings or you can't do anythings, the harddisk drive learn what you do and what programs and files you use most, so it best knows what it should cache in the flash memory
Just plug and play ;-)
The Seagate Momentus XT that i am using is with 4G SLC NAND flash (faster and more reliable than MLC used in normal SSD) and this one is 8G and is 3.5", so should be much quicker
These are not nearly as fast as a dedicated 64GB or 128GB SSD and a separate 1GB HDD, but
So a good option, if this is your budget.
Might be good for a gaming PC actually, my SSD is cool, but probably not worth the money just for faster startup times an loading times (I may use my desktop for work at some point, but so far, it hasn't been worth the extra money - I could have put that $130 into a faster GPU, which would have been a bigger improvement to the experience).
It's not good value IMO. It's a poor man's SSD.
The price is a lot more expensive than a 1TB HDD, considering all you get is 8GB worth of SSD for that money. I'd say spend the same amount on a 2TB HDD, and get a small SSD ~60GB (although that in itself is not good value for money).
Shell out $100 for a 120GB SSD is my advice.
Nice deal but be aware this is a desktop drive.
Thanks for the heads-up guys - reviews look pretty good.
Shame it's a 3.5" 1Tb drive.
More interesting would be a 2.5" 1Tb drive that would fit in a notebook, or even a 3.5" 2-4Tb drive.
Reviews dont look that good to me. If you on a budget maybe… But its still alot slower
http://techreport.com/review/25425/seagate-desktop-sshd-2tb-…
not bad for bring us some deal
like Its4me said, would be happier if it's 2.5" 1TB which is cheap price, or 3.5" 3TB-4TB
Sounds like Apple's Fusion Drive technology
Yes, Apple copy it
Ahhh, sh*t, this IS a desktop drive :(
I have a hybrid 500gb drive in my Macbook and it's a LOT faster than a normal HDD.
I would have purchased this is it was 2.5"
Needs to spec in the title it's a 3.5" drive
I'd speculate that for around 99 you could get a 60gig ssd and a 1tb drive . as it's 3.5 inch additional drives and space ought to not be a problem.
Your speculation would be greatly enhanced with a link or two.
It would be a little bit more than that, but not a lot more.
A 120GB SSD is only about $20 more than a 60GB, so I would always go for that instead. Will be faster also.
Yeah, but how much SSD do you really need?
I put a tiny little (60GB? Smaller?) SSD in the second bay of my 17" laptop. Carved up into 15GB partitions, that's big enough for the root directory of four reasonably big Linux installations (or a couple of enormous ones, or dual boot windows, or whatever). /home goes on the spindle HDD.
If I was throwing an extra $20 at a dual disk solution, I'd probably go the small SSD and upgrade the spindle HDD. All the SSD you need, and twice as much space for pr0n. Uh, I mean, spreadsheets.
Depends if you play games or not. This can be used as a desktop drive, so I would be evaluating its usefulness to people who own desktops.
Even if you don't play games, the bigger the capacity of your drive, and the more free space you have available on it, the faster the drive performs. A 120GB beats a 60GB at both of these. You would be paying an extra 25% or so, but getting an extra 100% more capacity. It's always better value.
What the hell are you supposed to do with an 8GB SSD?