WD Western Digital Black² Dual Drive 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD AUD $191.33 Delivered @ Newegg

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  [Deactivated] on 17/12/2014 - 23:55

  +6

  As a contrast I can walk into umart and get a a 120 gig samsung ssd and 2-3tb for roughly that same price (cheaper for 2TB, about 20 more for 3TB)

  No hate of course, doesn't mean there isn't some people who would prefer the all in one option.

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    Guybrush57 on 18/12/2014 - 00:00

    +6

    I guess it would be really handy in situations where space is limited. A laptop with only 1 bay would benefit from a device like this.

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    krisspy on 18/12/2014 - 00:07

    +3

    this is a 2.5" drive. 1TB 2.5" oem drives cost like $80 themselves.

    Price is actually good considering its an AIO unit

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      Aethelbert on 18/12/2014 - 10:47

      +1

      Considering that it's pretty much the ONLY AIO unit that isn't an Apple Fusion drive (which I don't think you can buy by itself)

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  Gnostikos on 18/12/2014 - 00:05

  +6

  Sure it's cheap given the space provided, but you do get what you pay for.

  The SSD is just about the slowest in the budget segment of the SSD market and the HDD (5400RPM) is on par with external HDD performance.

  PCMag sums it up quite well:

  Western Digital appears to have banked on the convenience as a critical advantage, but the overwhelming majority of users can get by on 256GB of storage (for less money) or roughly 400GB for $10 more

  Really, no one but laptop users are going to contemplate this and for that price, why not just grab a 480GB Crucial M500 from Amazon? Plenty of storage for most laptop users and it will make a huge improvement to performance (which is really a priority over storage space when it comes to laptops, as most laptops are still at the 1TB mark or lower).

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  xuqi on 18/12/2014 - 00:10

  +2

  This device was always wrongly conceived. Too expensive to begin with, and now not worth the hassle with the ever decreasing price of larger capacity SSD's.

  I considered getting one for user in my wife's laptop, before ultimately installing a 128GB SSD, and purchasing a HDD caddy to use in-place of the optical drive.

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    stumo on 18/12/2014 - 07:54

    Yeah about 2 years too late to market. They should have just made the ssd cache bigger on those early hybrids they made, id have bought one then. 4GB was never going to be enough. But either way this is too little too late.

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  bchliu on 18/12/2014 - 00:20

  +2

  Not to mention - you also need to install extra drivers to make it recognise the HDD part. I wouldnt bother and go straight for a 480/512GB SSD for $230 or so. It's arguably less than half the capacity, but it is much quicker overall and still decent amount of space.

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  Smigit on 18/12/2014 - 00:29

  +1

  I think the concepts pretty cool myself given my primary system is a laptop and I have about 700gigs of data on it currently. I'd have to check, but chances are I'd want more than 120GB as a primary partition.

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  [Deactivated] on 18/12/2014 - 02:52

  Not enough

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  Ryuverlorene on 18/12/2014 - 04:22

  +1

  This price is a trade off for space, I don't believe it's a particularly good trade-off, however. My suggestion is an SSD with an external HDD if you don't have the space in the computer (or using a laptop), if you do, don't cheap out on the space, most ITX cases will have at least 1 2.5" and 1 3.5" bay.
  Unless, of course…. your laptop is carried around 24/7 but if you're not gaming (I doubt you will if you're using your laptop, like that, for business reason), then just go and buy a 250GBs+ SSD, it's cheap these days! But if nothing you're doing require a extreme fast write/read speed, use a 7200RPM+ HDD for the space……. I honestly can't find a good use for this drive unless you use your laptop as your main computer and storage, refer to the link in Amar89's comment for more technical details.
  But +1 to the OP for posting the deal.