Buying a Seagate SSHD for my laptop?

PedroCst said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

BigTabs said:

Like I said price pays for quality enough said

Ok, you had one SDD fail, one with a Sandforce controller. Big deal! So that makes you an expert on SSDs? HDDs also fail. Almost anything can fail; that's why they have warranties. Check the reviews on Newegg for Samsung's 840s and 840 Pros; they are much better than reviews for any HDD. Frankly, the number of people who recommend SSDs far, far outnumber you.

Well, my crappy HDD definitely failed. That's why I'm getting a new one!

EDIT: Anyways BigTabs is saying my needs don't require a SSD. I don't know about you but I agree with him.

Frankly, I wouldn't go by what BigTabs says; he has proven he isn't up to speed on the current state of the art of SSDs. Make up your own mind.

Where an SSD shines is in decreased boot time, faster program starts, and faster data access but they don't make the computer itself run faster. A program will load faster but, once loaded, it won't run faster. For just data storage only, SSDs are overpriced. Normally, the ideal arrangement is to use an SSD for the OS and programs and a HDD for data storage. However, only the larger, more expensive laptops have a place for two drives. So, to get the performance of an SSD and room for storage when only one drive can be installed, one has to install a large SSD. Obviously, the larger the SSD, the more it will cost. One has to decide if the increased performance an SSD can give is worth the cost.

SSHDs are a compromise, both in performance and in cost. They work by using what is essentially using a small, built in SSD to cache the most frequently used programs and the OS to improve program start times and boot times. In the case of the SSHD you are considering, the SSD portion is 8GB so there is a limit to how much improvement it can make. Still, it will perform better than a HDD.

I wanted more performance from the 500GB HDD in my Lenovo notebook but still needed the storage capacity. A good 512GB SSD would have cost me $110 USD more than the notebook did and I couldn't justify that expense so I got the SSHD you are considering and I've already posted how I feel about it. In the case of my desktop (a $4k+ machine), I had no trouble justifying the cost of a 128GB SSD (Samsung 840 Pro).

BigTabs said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

BigTabs said:

Like I said price pays for quality enough said

Ok, you had one SDD fail, one with a Sandforce controller. Big deal! So that makes you an expert on SSDs? HDDs also fail. Almost anything can fail; that's why they have warranties. Check the reviews on Newegg for Samsung's 840s and 840 Pros; they are much better than reviews for any HDD. Frankly, the number of people who recommend SSDs far, far outnumber you.

If you read my post correctly I have owed 4 and I did not say I was an expert your adding that

Cheap ssd don't last long exspensive ssd do

Cheap ssd have been know to be slower than some hdd

I could not see the op spending £150-£200 on a exspensive ssd as its not his main computer

I read your post and know what you said. Reread what I said. Your information about SSDs is way out of date.

No SSD will perform worse than a HDD, unless it's in the process of failing. That's just not how they work. An SSD is suitable for anybody that turns a computer on and uses it. It is the single best upgrade one can do. CPU/RAM/GPU.......none of those upgrades come close to what an SSD will do for you. And you don't have to get a really high dollar one these days for it to be a good performer with good reliability. Do some homework and read up on things, you are about 3 generations behind.

I changed my mind and I'm going for the 120GB Samsung 840 instead.
The 1st-gen Momentus XT has had some really nasty issues; I don't want that to happen in my computer.