Awful company to deal with.... Heat for the Amazon price good drive for PS4...
nige182 to NeoRegia
17 May 17#24
Cheers, I had been waiting for a sub-£80 price again. I have had a few orders with Box fine so will go there unless Amazon drop price by the time I get in later.
supercasual
16 May 171#7
£79.99 bought at amazon on the24th march this year. However, not a bad price at all.
CampGareth
16 May 17#8
Worth remembering the caching scheme is different to that normally used. The SSD portion caches the most commonly accessed blocks across all time, instead of just recently accessed blocks in the last few minutes. Makes it useless for servers, great for consumer PCs where you regularly load your OS and browse the web.
4Real2016 to CampGareth
16 May 171#11
Yes and that's why its good for games, it's not a coincidence these have 8GB of NAND and games require 8GB of RAM, it takes about four loads before it's moved to NAND and then you get near SSD speeds, even the second load can see a 30 second reduction in load time for some games.
superfreddy
16 May 17#9
This will be for my PS4 which is apparently brilliant for it.
slayermatt
16 May 171#10
It's interesting that while hard drive prices have been increasing these SSHD's haven't really budged as much. Bit rich for me, but even just for a 2tb 2.5" you can't complain regardless.
CampGareth
17 May 17#12
Unfortunately I'm after drives for server use. The cache could be very useful if it used a more classic caching scheme but as is the drives are no better than standard HDDs.
Imagine this, I want a HDD to consume little power but be instantly ready when I need it. With an SSD cache the HDD portion could spend its time spun down, then when I write it could go to the SSD cache until that's mostly full, then the HDD could spin up and start offloading data. In that scenario the HDD's spun down until it's needed yet the drive responded instantly thanks to the SSD chunk. Ah well, I can dream.
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Imagine this, I want a HDD to consume little power but be instantly ready when I need it. With an SSD cache the HDD portion could spend its time spun down, then when I write it could go to the SSD cache until that's mostly full, then the HDD could spin up and start offloading data. In that scenario the HDD's spun down until it's needed yet the drive responded instantly thanks to the SSD chunk. Ah well, I can dream.