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    Hybrid drive

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Garandhero, Dec 31, 2011.

  1. Garandhero

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    so I got the hybrid drive when my laptop arrives how do idetermine exactly if that is what is installed is there some sort of indication that the nand is there? basically I want to know if there's any difference between what I got in a normal 500 gig hard drive and if there's any way to see the hybrid portion or confirm its working/there
     
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    You can simply open the HDD cover underneath and see the model yourself. For the "hybrid" results, you have to boot quite a few times for the drive to learn then you will see snappier start up. For applications, run it a few times and let the drive learns the files you access most frequent.
     
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    So crystal mark will confirm its installed/working?
     
    Garandhero, Dec 31, 2011
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    Yea you can check the model with above mentioned software, and another thing you can do if you are paranoid is benchmark it with something like PCMark or Storage Bench, and compare it to published benchmarks for the drive you are getting, to see how it stacks up.
     
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    The NAND portion only works after many reads of the same disk address. Not sure how benching will test the drive's SSD portion? As a bench will create the files for the test and them delete them.

    Is the Momentus XT going to serve as your boot drive? If so, then you could look at running a boot timer, and booting a bunch of times, recording each boot time. Make a record and you should see a significant jump as the drive "learns" to read the same files after multiple boots. Another test you could try is copying a large file to an "empty" flash drive multiple times or perhaps loading a large image or quick time/movie file over and over again.
     
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    This is my only drive in this machine.
     
    Garandhero, Dec 31, 2011
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    Well there are several reviews out for it with benchmarks that show it is better than your average HDD, so it's evidently quite possible, it doesn't even say they did anything special so I'm assuming they just ran the benchmark tools like you would for any other hd.

    To bench bootime however, it took several restarts before the time finally bottomed out.
     
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    Just check the device manager hardware id. You wont see any greater speed over a conventional HDD with benchmarks as the nand only stores most frequently read data (like boot data).
     
    HeavenCry, Jan 1, 2012
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  10. Garandhero

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    What will the device manager ID say?
     
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    If you have a standard 500GB hybrid, it should be listed by the part number ST95005620AS for the Seagate Momentus XT. It could vary though as this part has had revisions with other model numbers. Just take whatever model number you're given and google it to see. That, or just pop open the hard drive bay and it will say right on the drive what model and type it is.
     
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    Thanks do you know what the 500GB HD w/ the 4gig nand would say in the device manager? That's what I ordered.
     
    Garandhero, Jan 1, 2012
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    In Intel's RST sys tray app, the utility reports Model number reports: ST95005620AS. Also make sure it shows you are on firmware SD28 in order to get the best performance out of this drive.
     
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    Yes, see above. The device manager should list the model number under "disk drives". :)
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Jan 1, 2012
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