Ideal for upgrading your PS4 hard drive, never seen it cheaper than this anywhere, even camelcamelcamel shows 79.99 as it's lowest ever on Amazon.
Comes with a 5 year warranty too!
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Spies
3 Jun 175#2
Save some pennies and get a standard 2TB drive.
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Ulti
3 Jun 17#1
Any point in getting this as a storage drive for a laptop that already has an NVME SSD as the main storage? Or should I just get a standard non-hybrid 2.5" HDD for the laptop?
zizzles to Ulti
4 Jun 171#8
At this price, definitely go for it.
Spies
3 Jun 175#2
Save some pennies and get a standard 2TB drive.
SFP_NooDLe to Spies
3 Jun 17#3
Agreed. If using with a PS4 the benefits of an SSHD are practically zero. Really not worth paying around £30 more when external 2TB USB drives which are PS4 compatible regularly go up on here at the £50 mark. You can usually take them out of their enclosure and use them as an internal drive if you prefer as well.
WhoThrowsAShoe
4 Jun 172#4
Depends on what games you play surely ? In Battlefield those extra few seconds could mean the difference between getting a vehicle or not at the beginning of each round.
SleepyChris
4 Jun 171#5
For the uninitiated...this is a hybrid drive which is mainly a normal HDD but has a small amount of SSD in it...it learns what you access most frequently and puts that into the SSD portion for the speed benefits...I had one of the really really early versions of these (750 GB)...seemed OK. Curiosity even over rode my anti Seagate principles (previous bad experiences). Professional online reviews showed how it took a few read cycles to get windows into the SSD portion and get full benefits from it. My early version one is still going strong but has found its way into a portable enclosure now and has infrequent use.
So id cautiously recommend this for a Windows machine if you mainly want to speed up boot up times and save some cash over buying a full blown SSD.
Hope this someone.
NeoRegia
4 Jun 172#6
It don't work like that, all players start at the same time and it dos not matter if your ps4 is loading the game from slow hdd in a minute or from fast ssd in few seconds, all players are forced by server to wait for match to begin, if you have problems with time lags and slowdowns that's your broadband failing you not slow hard drive.
SleepyChris
4 Jun 172#7
Incidentally, for the anti Seagate league (I m a member)..I bought a portable 4TB Maxtor drive which turns out it contains a Seagate drive! (imagine my horror)...well I've had it over a week now and it's still going strong...so maybe they've turned a corner.
bbdom to SleepyChris
4 Jun 171#10
Seagate / Samsung / Maxtor - all Seagate now.
WD drives have given me recent grief (one black and two green failed within a week of each other at work - all under warranty).
I may have to go HGST in future.
GwanGy
4 Jun 171#9
Ulti No, there is no point in getting this as a secondary drive, it might speed up some regularly loaded apps IF they are stored on this drive... but not worth the premium over std hdd as a storage drive, IMO. (If they upped the ssd portion to 128gb+ it might be a different proposition)
SleepyChris
4 Jun 17#11
Oh I'd settled on WD...usually get those. My 4TB Maxtor (I mean Seagate is) just to back up my WD NAS so it's expendable....ish. What's HGST?
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Comes with a 5 year warranty too!
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So id cautiously recommend this for a Windows machine if you mainly want to speed up boot up times and save some cash over buying a full blown SSD.
Hope this someone.
WD drives have given me recent grief (one black and two green failed within a week of each other at work - all under warranty).
I may have to go HGST in future.
(If they upped the ssd portion to 128gb+ it might be a different proposition)