I ordered two Seagate 1T hybrid drives by mistake. They were intended to=20
be backup drives.
I was shocked to find they were laptop sized drives. A little online=20
searching revealed they are commonly used in all-in-one machines.
I cloned my C: drive and installed one. At first, I could see little if=20
any difference. After a day or two the machine seemed to be a lot faster.
There was no special setup on my part.
I don't know, but I speculate:
If the drive is not spinning, in sleep mode, there is no wait time for=20
common activity in the SS area.
I suspect the firmware uses the algorithms developed for virtual=20
storage, such as paging out the Least Recently Used pages to allocate SS=20
store.
I think they were a good deal at about $100 each. I intend to put the=20
other one in my Cheap HP laptop. Those laptops see to be good for at=20
least three years for me.
The problem with basing decisions on history is that those machines are=20
not what are available in today's market!
There was a time when all of the failures were WD's.
If you use disk drives I think it wise to be paranoid...

On 6/4/2014 12:47 PM, alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
>> As for SSD drives I haven't been selling them enough or long enough for =
a
>> real good opinion yet. SMBs are still shy about them and some gamers hav=
e
>> found that some of the drives slow down a bit with age. Also some older
>> computers will not boot using a SSD, depends on the BIOS. My best advice=
 is
>> if you find a drive you like and think it will work, research it for MTB=
F
>> (Failure Rate), research the model and not the manufacturer.
> Maybe this is one to look at ...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/04/soupedup_sandisk_ssd_sashays_onto=
_stage/
>
>
>

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