New Seagate HD with SSD Performance

[AndrewJamez]

Hi to all the PC tech Heads out there, i stumbled apon a new hard drive today called the "Seagate 500GB XT SATA 7200 4G SSD" It is a new Hybrid drive which incorperates a high performance 2.5" 7200rpm drive with 4GB of solid state memory on board. The onboard memory stores the most frequently used data and provides a very large memory buffer. Tests have proved to match SSD performance at a fraction of the cost. PB tech are selling the 500GB unit for approx $230 inc. so for anyone waiting for the price of SSD drives to reduce dramaticaly and the size to increace 10 fold then this could be a good option. As a main drive it is said to reduce boot times significantly.

Check out this C-net overview and decide for yourself.

http://reviews.cnet.com/internal-hard-driv...7-34109211.html

Or a more complete review here:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1310/1/

[pilot.masman]

mmmm, been looking at these for a while.

$209 from here, free shipping etc.
http://www.playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CA...uctdetails.html



i personally havent bought one cos im happy with standard hdd performance ie $65 for the same size drive, or even $90 for double it. idk i think im more after size than all this hdd speed, seems a bit of a waste tbh, my pc runs fine with a 500gb OS drive or if i feel like it, 2 500gb drives in raid0 for cheaper and still faster than standard.

[AndrewJamez]

QUOTE (pilot.masman @ Jan 4 2011, 01:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

mmmm, been looking at these for a while.

$209 from here, free shipping etc.
http://www.playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CA...uctdetails.html



i personally havent bought one cos im happy with standard hdd performance ie $65 for the same size drive, or even $90 for double it. idk i think im more after size than all this hdd speed, seems a bit of a waste tbh, my pc runs fine with a 500gb OS drive or if i feel like it, 2 500gb drives in raid0 for cheaper and still faster than standard.

Its just that Ive read a thread on this site that upgradeing to a high speed drive made a huge differene in rendering speed, I picked up a second hand velociraptor drive the other week and will soon reinstall. I will post any difference in performance.

[Dontcopy]

I have a 150gb Velociraptor and I didn't really notice a major difference in FSX over my standard 7200rpm.
But load times were slightly better and my FPS were about 15% better