Laptop Solid State Hybrid Drive Thin 7 mm Hybrid Drive
If it suits your requirements
Not a bad drive.
Not a bad price.
500GB Capacity
5400RPM Spin Speed
SATA III Interface
64MB Cache
2.5" Form Factor
3 Year Warranty
Part Number: ST500LM000
Their blurb
500GB, 7mm design for the latest, thinnest laptops
Boots up and performs like an SSD ..... not quite
Up to 5 times faster than a traditional 5400-RPM HDD
Easy laptop upgrade to boost performance and capacity.
Top comments
derp1664 to trueno2k
25 Mar 176#20
Why buy a Ford when a Mercedes is only twice the price :smile:
noonecanhelp1
25 Mar 174#30
not much difference to Evo 850 haha ok mate
"ex IT engineer" :smiley:
mugen6
25 Mar 173#21
Exactly. This would be perfect for grandma's laptop - she's not much of a torrent user...
All comments (39)
AndyRoyd
25 Mar 17#1
Decent price for this size SSHD from a mainstream source, although probably not the best size/price ratio.
derp1664
25 Mar 171#2
Not a bad option given the ongoing terrible SSD prices
cgap
25 Mar 17#3
noob question that I know could be answered by a quick Google Search, but can anyone recommend best method of transferring data from current win10 laptop drive to a new one?
TonyRoma2010 to cgap
25 Mar 172#4
Macrium Reflect Free.
AndyRoyd to cgap
25 Mar 171#6
Data transfer can be achieved via simple USB SATA hard drive enclosure; cloning the complete installation can be achieved via same enclosure and Macrium reflect free software.
RiverDragon8 to cgap
25 Mar 17#10
Aomei backupper is better than Macrium Reflect Free.
avalon50
25 Mar 17#5
I bought one of these about 3 years ago now, from Amazon and paid £52 then.
magicmikethegrea to avalon50
25 Mar 17#29
So you would agree £36.65 isn't too bad then?
chomPer
25 Mar 171#7
Forgot to mention there is also a 5 day delivery for free option
GwanGy
25 Mar 17#8
Best method would be to get both machines on the same network then load teracopy on the source machine, map the new machine as a network drive, COPY (so the data is still there in case of accidents)
(Bob is really your father, Family secret..sssshhhh)
thekanester
25 Mar 17#9
Great deal and it reviews really well too.
vithya
25 Mar 17#11
what is the speed compare to ssd and normal hard drive?
For commonly used files it'll use its 8GB SSD buffer - performance is pretty good. For large media files/games etc it'll perform like a 5400rpm laptop drive - i.e. pretty average.
These are great for office PCs as all your commonly used stuff is cached.
Mandroid578 to vithya
25 Mar 17#27
relatively slow. most hard drives are 7200rpm. this is 5400rpm if you do not take into account the solid state portion.
fishmaster
25 Mar 17#12
I prefer FreeFileSync for data copy.
derp1664
25 Mar 17#13
Partition magic free is good too
...just to confuse things further :smile:
valmiki
25 Mar 17#14
How big's the SSD portion in this?
derp1664 to valmiki
25 Mar 17#16
8GB
Minstadave to valmiki
25 Mar 17#17
8GB
trueno2k
25 Mar 171#19
Why go for this when the 2TB model is only 2x the cost for so much more storage!.. Cold from me!..
derp1664 to trueno2k
25 Mar 176#20
Why buy a Ford when a Mercedes is only twice the price :smile:
mugen6
25 Mar 173#21
Exactly. This would be perfect for grandma's laptop - she's not much of a torrent user...
mikedigitales
25 Mar 17#22
all gone :disappointed:
trueno2k
25 Mar 171#23
Depends on which Ford model and which Merc model you compare!..
fishmaster
25 Mar 17#24
Office PC's generally have documents on them which would take up a fraction of the space. Any decent office would have a fileserver anyway, negating the need for larger individual desktop storage. There are exceptions of course.
brainsys
25 Mar 17#25
Voted cold. 95% of the drive runs like a dog - slower than almost any other HDD. The 8GB SSD isn't going to hold much of your OS and swap space (well unless you run a minimal Linux distribution).
Wags have said it would be faster to run your OS off a USB stick. IMHO better to spend your money on a faster or bigger HDD that hasn't been emasculated by the 'shingle' effect. Until next year when, hopefully, pure SSDs become affordable again.
_hukdealer_ to brainsys
25 Mar 171#28
I upgraded this drive to 500GB Samsung evo 850 in my i5 skylake laptop and expected miracle. Miracle hasn't happened. With my recent use ( office, web browsing, photo editing and light gaming ) I couldn't spot a lot of difference. Fresh win install didn't help either. From my point of view I just wasted £100.
This is a good drive for money (I'm Acer & Compaq ex IT engineer).
plewis00
25 Mar 17#26
Why not just buy a 128GB pure SSD then? These hybrid drives are so disappointing in real would use.
noonecanhelp1
25 Mar 174#30
not much difference to Evo 850 haha ok mate
"ex IT engineer" :smiley:
They somehow managed to miss Acer laptops off that list....
avalon50
26 Mar 17#33
Yes I do.
avalon50
26 Mar 17#34
The oner I bought , I put it my laptop, as a proper SSD was very limited by the fact of the SATA controller of just 3Gb/s.
So I thought that this hybrid would be a compromise between a HD and SSD, and to some point it is.
brilly to avalon50
26 Mar 17#39
the point isn't the sequential speed which is really the main thing which would be (potentially) limited vs HDD on SATA2 (or even SATA1)
AdrianK_
26 Mar 17#35
So he had both drives and couldn't see much difference in REAL world use in his case. How are you gonna argue with that?
mugen6
26 Mar 17#36
It's a fair point, a pure SSD would be much much better, but woiuld need to be bigger than 128GB because after Windows/Office/other usual apps + cache, space for windows updates, you're left with about 80GB. She has photos and videos of the grandkids and that would fill up quickly. Another 350GB would come in handy.
costanza
26 Mar 17#37
Damnit I missed it
GwanGy
26 Mar 17#38
Teracopy is now on 3.0 , I think its better faster at copying .
Most laptop drives are 5400rpm, for energy/heat saving , some even run at 4200.
This drive, depending on how often it actually spins up the drive, rather than fetching from the Kache, may extend your battery life
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Opening post
If it suits your requirements
Not a bad drive.
Not a bad price.
500GB Capacity
5400RPM Spin Speed
SATA III Interface
64MB Cache
2.5" Form Factor
3 Year Warranty
Part Number: ST500LM000
Their blurb
500GB, 7mm design for the latest, thinnest laptops
Boots up and performs like an SSD ..... not quite
Up to 5 times faster than a traditional 5400-RPM HDD
Easy laptop upgrade to boost performance and capacity.
Top comments
"ex IT engineer" :smiley:
All comments (39)
(Bob is really your father, Family secret..sssshhhh)
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/storage/58853-seagate-laptop-thin-sshd-500gb/?page=3
These are great for office PCs as all your commonly used stuff is cached.
...just to confuse things further :smile:
Wags have said it would be faster to run your OS off a USB stick. IMHO better to spend your money on a faster or bigger HDD that hasn't been emasculated by the 'shingle' effect. Until next year when, hopefully, pure SSDs become affordable again.
This is a good drive for money (I'm Acer & Compaq ex IT engineer).
"ex IT engineer" :smiley:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/129857/article.html?page=11
So I thought that this hybrid would be a compromise between a HD and SSD, and to some point it is.
Most laptop drives are 5400rpm, for energy/heat saving , some even run at 4200.
This drive, depending on how often it actually spins up the drive, rather than fetching from the Kache, may extend your battery life