Hi forum! Building a p150em Question about Hybrid HD

Hey forum,

I have been googlin about looking for info on the reliability of the Seagate Hybrid Xt. i planned on getting the 500gb 4gbssd version for my OS. I can only afford this atm when building the laptop from Basic to what i need. itll be a month or two after till i can afford extra Hds/SSds

The reason I am coming here is to see if anyone else has selected this HD as their main HD. I am worried about its failure rates which i encountered reading about in mass the past year and months before now. Does anyone have this SSD and what are your reactions? How long have you had it. When i google around i only find problems with it. On Newegg product reviews well. they frighten me kind of. But i have read that there are newer versions and more reliable and fixes have been released. Anyone purchased one this year? Anyhone with longterm ownership and happy with it as their main HD for their OS? Any experience with noise or heat?


The main question is: Is this a good choice of HD over a regular HD? Is it reliable? Im looking for ppl who have used it and or own it. Their experience over a year or months. Thankyou.




Other info.
I plan on buying a MsataSSD and extra ssd from Newegg as they are much cheaper than the boutiques. I plan on having my programs that need the speed on them. Im mostly disabling most of my startups and my browsers and some other programs will be on a usb stick instead. For some reason i prefer to keep the HD i use my OS with nothing else on it but the os antivirus and an image and backup partition on the same HD and thats about it.. All my work stuff will be on usb 3.0 external drives and the ssds i buy after my purchase. The msata might be a cache drive. I do not plan on having a SSD to hold my OS.

 

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but generally the best mix of drives is a proper SSD for a boot drive, and HDD for storage. A hybrid would be useless if you plan on getting any SSD. MSATA drives are more expensive and work only at SATA 2 on clevos. However in the absence of a proper SSD, it's reasonable to use one as a boot or cache drive.

 

The main question is: Is this a good choice of HD over a regular HD? Is it reliable? Im looking for ppl who have used it and or own it. Their experience over a year or months. Thankyou.

I dont care about super booting, i care that the drive wont fail. Im going to disable most windows services i dont need anyways. I will Use my PC for most of the day and keep it on.

Ive found some reasonablly wonderfully cheap Pulled Msatas/ssds.
The ssd i plan on buying will be jam packed. i wont have room for the os on it, its for all my skyrim modding along with other games and video im doing. For storage i prefer an external drive anways.

 

Ahh, I see, couldn't work out why you wanted it at all. They are less popular due to SSDs now as I'm sure you appreciate.

 

I really like my XT drive, so yes I whole heartedly recommend it. It's awesome.

 

I have two of them. One has been in pretty much constant use since November 2011.

It's a great 7200 RPM drive, but not so fast in the SSD sense. I've done a lot of benchmarking with this drive and it benefits greatly from Intel SRT, even though it does its own caching. I'm currently running an XT with an Intel 520 for caching which works really well. An mSATA SSD also massively speeds up the XT (I've tried the OCZ Nocti for this)

If you want to add a cache driver later, save yourself some trouble and make sure the SATA mode is set to RAID before you install Windows. If you don't, you may have to reinstall.

 

Here's a question: Is the lack of Sata 3 speeds that apparent with an SSD? As a boot disc and not a storage disc how much is Sata 3 gonna add in any case?

 

Windows 7 boot time - three seconds difference (13.8 seconds from POST to Windows startup sound vs 10.8). That's what I got when I benchmarked an mSATA OCZ Nocti vs a SATA-III Intel 520.

It's faster, but whether you're likely to notice in everyday usage is doubtful. An mSATA SSD is still very, very fast.

 

Thanks, that was what I thought.