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    Seagate Hybrid Users help

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ohthereyouare, Nov 12, 2011.

  1. ohthereyouare

    ohthereyouare Newbie

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    Any users here use it for the main drive. I am to pooh...to buy to upgrade to a ssd. So I was wondering what the pros and cons are?




    Thanks
     
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    The hybrid drive is a decent step between an mechanical drive and an SSD. Anandtech has a great article on them:

    AnandTech - Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD

    In general, the pros are that the hybrid is cheaper, speeds up everyday usage, and is larger capacity. The negatives are that it's not SSD fast, it's got limited flash memory (4GB for most), and you have no control over which programs are cached to the flash memory. It also loses the high shock rating that SSD's manage in case you were to drop it.
     
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  3. acroedd

    acroedd Notebook Evangelist

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    I bought a momentus xt on ebay for 80 bucks n installed it myself! my laptop boots in 10 secs now, not kidding! its def worth every penny of it, but it runs about $129 now, ill try to get it for 100 bucks if you can. But its worth it all the programs start faster after the 1st couple of times! it has a flash memory and stores what programs you use!
     
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  4. J.P.@XoticPC

    J.P.@XoticPC Company Representative

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    I believe there may be another hybrid drive arriving soon with a larger solid state part from Seagate, and I know other firms are developing similar drives to be released soon. The flooding in Thailand probably didn't help...
     
    J.P.@XoticPC, Nov 12, 2011
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    acroedd Notebook Evangelist

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  6. dio05

    dio05 Notebook Guru

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    one question on this... i have just got this hhd. m i suppose to see the 4gb in the disk management?
     
    dio05, Nov 14, 2011
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  7. Prema

    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    Nope they are like the onboard cache on other HDDs.

    One a side note, I would strongly suggest everyone to update to the latest firmware as it provides great performance improvements:

    http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=215451
     
    Prema, Nov 14, 2011
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  8. dio05

    dio05 Notebook Guru

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    wat are the chances of losing all data?
     
    dio05, Nov 14, 2011
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    jclausius Notebook Virtuoso

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  10. J.P.@XoticPC

    J.P.@XoticPC Company Representative

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    If by losing all data you mean total drive failure, it is the same of any standard hard drive. The SSD portion doesn't increase risk at all :)

    Thank you for that, I knew there was one coming with 8GB SSD just wasn't sure when.
     
    J.P.@XoticPC, Nov 14, 2011
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