Hybred Drives

[Bozo]

Part disc and part flash

 

[Mercutio]

I've been quite tempted to try the Seagate 500GB Hybrid drive but I can't quite justify it for myself.

 

[LunarMist]

They are inbred drives.

 

[Stereodude]

I've been quite tempted to try the Seagate 500GB Hybrid drive but I can't quite justify it for myself.

I got stuck at the Seagate part. :bigeek:

 

[LunarMist]

I'm sure that Seagate is old news. We really need larger amounts of flash - maybe even the option to use it as a separate drive.

 

[Stereodude]

I was referring to Seagate's past firmware problems. :rofl:

I suppose I shouldn't mock them too much since I just bought two 500GB 7200.12's for my new backup server build. :skepo: For years all I bought was Seagate HD's (mainly due to the 5 year warranty) and had no issues with them. More recently it's been all Samsung.

 

[LunarMist]

You bought new 500GB drives? Why not get at least 1TB drives, which are very cheap now?

 

[Stereodude]

You bought new 500GB drives? Why not get at least 1TB drives, which are very cheap now?

Because the cheapest 1TB 7200 RPM drive I would buy is $70 shipped (WD / Seagate / Samsung). The 500GB 7200.12's were $39 each shipped. I could have gotten by with 40GB drives, so there's no point getting 1TB drives when they're not much cheaper per GB than the 500GB drives.

 

[sechs]

Are they still aiming this at laptops? That seems like the one market where this is totally not worth it.

 

[LunarMist]

Yeah. Same old same old....

 

[Adcadet]

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[LunarMist]

Other than loading OS and some apps a little faster, I think the flash boost is overrated. I have the normal 500GB 720000 RPM drive and it is not appreciably faster than a good 5400 RPM drive at that capacity.

 

[BingBangBop]

You have a 720,000 RPM drive. I wouldn't call that normal. Normal is 5,400-7,200 with high speed at 15,000 RPM. Now I see why you think flash is over-rated.

 

[Howell]

And idea if they are loading certain often changed blocks onto the SSD portion or is it entire files.

 

[LunarMist]

You have a 720,000 RPM drive. I wouldn't call that normal. Normal is 5,400-7,200 with high speed at 15,000 RPM. Now I see why you think flash is over-rated.

Something happened to the keyboard. ;-)

 

[Stereodude]

Something happened to the keyboard. ;-)

Yeah, like your fingers pressing the 0 key too many times. :lol:

 

[Bozo]

Something happened to the keyboard. ;-)

err...maybe it was the chair-to-keyboard interface. oke:

 

[LunarMist]

Keyboard is on the floor.

 

[CougTek]

Do you operate it with your left foot, the same one you use to power on/turn off the system?

 

[Stereodude]

Of course not... He's ambidextrous. He uses his left foot to work the power controls system and his right foot to work the keyboard.