OOOOOOOk... now Hybrid HDD?

I'm not sure if I'm happy or not, but as I was about to buy a Samsung SSD 830 Series (512GB) for my Samsung Series 7 Chronos's 750GB Express Cache Hybrid HDD (from I dont know where) my friend stoppped me. The reason why I wanted to change my Hybrid HDD to SDD is because the Hybrid HDD on the Samsung only boosts several things like start up and multitasking and so on. Then I learn (from a techy firend) that SSD's dont last as long as hard drives do. So he recommended me to get a 120 GB SSD SATA III from Intel and the also buy an U32 Shadow™ 1TB External 2.5-in USB 3.0 Mini Portable Hard Drive and also he said that by doing this I could use the SSD for around 3-5 years. After getting a lesson from my friend I came upon the Momentus® XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid Drive and read that it's really good. But I wasn't able to find any information on how it works. I would like to know if theMomentus® XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid Drive does speed everything like a normal SSD or it just functions like the Samsung's 750 GB Express Cache. And could someone also tell me where this Hybrid HDD from my Samsung comes from? Also would you still recommend me to but the Samsung SSD 830 Series (512GB) or recommend me to change to a Momentus® XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid Drive

 

it does not speed everything like other SSDs. Otherwise nobody would buy SSDs. It does speed up some commonly used data, but it depends on what you do with the laptop.

search on here for "Seagate Momentus XT" thread and you'll find numerous pages filled with performance graphics and user opinions based on experience about the drive.

 

thank you very much

 

You already have a 8GB SSD cache in your laptop. There's no point in buying a Seagate XT.

If you want to upgrade the storage your only choice is SSD. The Samsung 830 512GB is an excellent performer. Power consumption is a little higher than competing SSDs though.

Your friend is wrong about the life span. A 512GB SSD will easily last more then 5 years unless you are a very rare extreme user.

 

Thank you very much

 

The misconception is that it only speeds up commonly used data. That's just not the case.

It fetches chunks based on predictions as soon as you open a file/program. So while you won't see SSD speeds because it's based on predictions (predictions that become more accurate with use of that program multiple times hence people thinking it's a "commonly used data" cache or something) it will speed a lot of things up.

 

Hungry Man is right - it speeds up the whole O/S (just like SSD's) in my experience.

+rep.