Is W7 defrag tool enough?

With all due respect the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive's read and write times aren't even as fast as the 1TB OEM Hitachi HDD in my Win 7 desktop which has a 132 MBps read and 126 MBps write time according to Crystal Disk Mark and it is the bottleneck that is keeping my WEI at 5.9 instead of 7.5.

~Maxx~

Very nice cluberti that was full of information. Thank you! I think it would make a nice Sticky.
Microsoft uses their own.

Thanks! I'll be here all week - try the veal!

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Wishmaster said:

Seeing as you have one, what do think of it and do you think it may help as a Games only drive?

Very much so esp., when it is a game you play multiple times. A lot of the stuff that has to remain on the HDD gets cached in the SSD portion so the loading the screens come and go just as quickly. Now it is not as fast as a say a full SSD drive and the cache is for frequently read items only.

This caching to SSD is completely independent of the OS you are using.
It is maintained and monitored by the drive itself.

Maxxwire said:

With all due respect the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive's read and write times aren't even as fast as the 1TB OEM Hitachi HDD in my Win 7 desktop which has a 132 MBps read and 126 MBps write time according to Crystal Disk Mark and it is the bottleneck that is keeping my WEI at 5.9 instead of 7.5.

~Maxx~

You are going have to get a full SSD drive if you are wanting 7.5.
The Momentus XT is not a full SSD drive, merely a middle ground between the two.

logicearth said:

Wishmaster said:

Seeing as you have one, what do think of it and do you think it may help as a Games only drive?

Very much so esp., when it is a game you play multiple times. A lot of the stuff that has to remain on the HDD gets cached in the SSD portion so the loading the screens come and go just as quickly. Now it is not as fast as a say a full SSD drive and the cache is for frequently read items only.

This caching to SSD is completely independent of the OS you are using.
It is maintained and monitored by the drive itself.

Im thinking I may try one. I would like to have a SSD for a Game drive, but I have a lot of Games installed. So I certainly want something that performs decent with plenty of space.

Or maybe even 2 spinners in RAID, or 2 of these even :)


Think I may give one a try.

The entire hybrid concept seems like it may be a good idea.

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Maxxwire said:

You are going have to get a full SSD drive if you are wanting 7.5.
The Momentus XT is not a full SSD drive, merely a middle ground between the two.

logicearth- I was just commenting on the suggestion of using a Hybrid SSD. As for myself l do believe that SSD is definitely the way to go and 2 Intel SSD's in RAID 0 simply fly...



~Maxx~