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Hybrid HDD (Seagate attempt 2)

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These:

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?page=1&lim ... ubcat=3324

All the reviews seems to point to this drive being simply awesome. I was looking to an SSD for my server as we are bottlenecking on HDD usage at the moment. However I was advised about these and the details sound great, presuming it can load the 2-3mb log files into the 4gb ssd for dynamic writing etc.

Anyone using/heard of these yet? I just bought the 500gb one, going to throw it in my new PC and test it out before buying 2 for my server.
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Re: Hybrid HDD (Seagate attempt 2)

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Interesting. Lemme know how it works out for you.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148591

Only $120 for 500 GB - I'd be willing to trade in my current 7200 RPM 500 GB drive if there's a performance boost...

The catch-22 seems to be that it's biggest area of success is with little files, so in the realm of gaming, when you're accessing large data sets (compiled file systems), it probably won't do much for them - unless the game just uses tons of little files, which doesn't seem to be as common anymore.
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Re: Hybrid HDD (Seagate attempt 2)

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FN wrote:Interesting. Lemme know how it works out for you.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148591

Only $120 for 500 GB - I'd be willing to trade in my current 7200 RPM 500 GB drive if there's a performance boost...

The catch-22 seems to be that it's biggest area of success is with little files, so in the realm of gaming, when you're accessing large data sets (compiled file systems), it probably won't do much for them - unless the game just uses tons of little files, which doesn't seem to be as common anymore.

This is true however for the price I hope it's worth using one of these just to speed up general computer use. The studied I found showed:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/produc ... laptop-hdd This, but I'm not sure how good this review is as it seems to be testing pure naked use not speedup of favourite prorgams. Got to 7:24 for end results.

The main reason I've bought one is that I don't want to setup RAID for a home PC. I don't want to mess around with a small SSD and I'm not paying the insane prices for a 250GB SSD, specially as flash memory just went up in price and all SSD's are soon to follow. Presuming nothing goes wrong I can see Seagate getting some serious market leads with these drives.

I did have a review that a game server host had posted but I can't find it now. He said it increased server restarts, load times and less lag when recording large log files of SRCDS servers by around 25%. While a SSD normally increases it by 60%. But, over $1200 for a 500gb ssd puts this drive at 1/10th the cost. I shall let you know once it's been delivered :)
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