About this item
- SATA 6Gb/s
- 7200rpm
- 3.5 inch internal hard drive
- 16MB buffer size
- Operating Temperature: 60 degrees
- Average Operating Power: 9watts
Technical Details
- Brand Seagate
- Manufacturer SEAGATE
- Colour Silver
- Form Factor 3.5 inches
- Item Height 0.8 Inches
- Item Width 4 Inches
- Product Dimensions 14.73 x 10.16 x 2.03 cm; 460 Grams
- Item model number ST500DM002
- Hard Drive Size 500 GB
- Hard Disk Rotational Speed 7200 RPM
- Wattage 50
- Are Batteries Included No
- Manufacturer SEAGATE
- Item Weight 460 g
- Warranty 1 Year
Shopper in need. –
A year has passed by. Still serving my laptop. May not be as good as SSD but does the job.. I recommend it for anyone looking for HDD, But don’t expect anything more than HDD, just because it has small portion of SSD.
2 people found this helpful
Kevin Warrington –
I’m a great fan of Seagate discs having been a data storage “expert” for most of my working career. This was bought to replace another 500Gb disc of another brand that was throwing up random read / write errors after about a year’s use.I had not noticed that this was a hybrid drive, so it is even better value for money than I thought. I suppose the only consideration is not to have a power fail while writing data as there is a risk of it being cached and not written to the magnetic media, but the system it is used in is rarely switched off and relies on Windows power management.So far, it has worked well. Basically, you can’t really go wrong when buying from one of the “big” names – and now there doesn’t even seem to be a price premium
Ian –
Much faster startups, i’m talking seconds, between 4 and 14 from off to boot signed in and going, great thing, the only downfall that I have had thus far is that the disc portion of the drive is a little bit noisy, again only with initial power, that is until the hd deterins that the SSDHD is what should be doing the boot operations.
Yohi –
Habe mir diese Festplatte als Ersatz fuer eine uralte 120 GB Laptop Platte gekauft. Die Ladezeit bis zum Windowsschirm hat sich um 50 % beschleunigt und das Laden von regelmaessig genutzten Programmen hat sich auch wesentlich verbessert.Anschaffungsgrund war wie gesagt der alte Laptop und der Fakt, dass eine pure SSD mit 128 GB nur bei Sonderangeboten bei dem Preis mithalten kann. Sonst bekommt man fuer das Geld eher 64 GB SSD. Da der Laptop aelter ist und ich doch gerne moeglichst viel GB fuer mein Geld haben wollte, entschied ich mich fuer dieses Produkt.In Kombination mit i-tec USB 2.0 Mysafe habe ich dann mit der Seagate eigens kostenlos zur Verfuegung gestellten Software die Platte gespiegelt und eingebaut und los gehts. Die ersten hochfahr Vorgaenge sind wie ueberall beschrieben etwas langsamer als man erwarten wuerde, aber schon nach dem vierten hochfahren waren deutliche Verbesserungen erkennbar. Ich bin nach wie vor begeistert!
J.D. –
the SSD part might be speeding up the computer, but not noticeably. It seems like a fine drive, just not quite what I was expecting. This may be a review or all SSHDs and I will probably just go full SSD next time.
J –
Fast delivery. Installed in an HP pavillion laptop and it works perfectly.
natemulli –
Great speed increase. Not as fast as a good quality SSD, but much faster than the laptop drive it replaced, and much much cheaper per TB. Make sure you need the thin drive before buying, or that you can at least get it to fitt. The 500gb thin v drive is 7mm thick, which is thinner than a standard laptop drive.
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Anna Wojdyla –
Sehr zufrieden !
Luka Nico –
Nachdem die Festplatte meines Notebooks immer mehr Geräusche machte, mußte eine neue her. Grundsätzlich lief alles auf dem Notebook sehr langsam. Es sollte also ein wenig SSD auf der neuen Festplatte sein. Sie sollte aber als normale Festplatte vom System erkannt werden. Ist bei Lenovo alles nicht so einfach. Und 500 GB reichen mir völlig aus.Das System hat die Seagate sofort erkannt. Als erstes Betriebssystem kam Windows 7 drauf. Von Windows 8 war ich einen schnellen Start gewohnt. Mit der Seagate war das Windows 7 schneller als Windows 8. Dafür hat sich der Kauf schon gelohnt.Nun habe ich wieder ein Dualboot mit Windows 8 drauf. Hier ist das direkte Booten der Systeme auch schneller. Und was noch viel wichtiger ist, die Anwendungen laufen nun richtig schnell.Ich bin mal gespannt, wie sich das ganze auf längere Zeit auswirkt.Nach diesem Kurztest von 4 Wochen, kann ich die Seagate nur empfehlen.I
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takingflight005 –
This hard drive made me love my laptop again. I have a Macbook Pro mid-2010 that was getting slower and slower. I first attributed it to the operating systems getting more and more bloated and demanding too much of the hard drive, but then decided to replace the drive. I installed this, and my laptop is running very well once again. I dual boot OSX 10.9 Mavericks and Windows 8.1. OSX boots in probably 20-30 seconds, however, Windows 8.1 boots in about 10. It’s nuts. Once booted, the programs load pretty quickly. The storage is good; enough for me for two OS’s, quite a few games on each, movies, music, and pictures, etc. It performs really well, and I’m really glad that I made this purchase.
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Jonathan Ford –
My wife’s laptop was very sluggish – to the point where she thought she would have to get a new one. I have a Full SSD + standard hard drive in my desktop and the SSD by far provided the biggest speed boost to my machine of any upgrade I did, so given the low price and positive reviews for this hybrid drive I thought it was worth giving it shot to see if the hybrid would salvage my wife’s laptop.My wife couldn’t be happier – she feels like she has a new machine and can’t believe how fast things open!I highly recommend this drive and would not hesitate to purchase a hybrid drive in the future.
Reynold Haywood –
this hard drive works great it booths my windows in second the only thing i find it puts out a little more heat than the regular hard drive but i guess in improvement you always have to give up one for the other,but the drive works fantastic pages open up faster and booth time and shut down is much faster no more long waiting
Boris –
Bought this to replace an old Dell XPS L502X laptop hard drive which was already having some issues. With a fresh Windows 10 install on this drive, I get to have a complete boot within 30 seconds almost as good as a SSD.
CM10014 –
The 250GB drive in our 2008 MacBook Pro (17″) was grinding to a halt and sick of the spinning beach ball, this is a great replacement. Twice the size of the old drive for decent price. So far, no complaints and it seems to be getting faster each time the laptop boots up. As an everyday user of the MacBook for business, this has been a great option and am very satisfied. A few negative comments about the 7200rpm model had me worried, but it seems this is a newer design and the computer starts and shuts down like a champ. With 500GB SSD drives going for upward of $350, this is a no-brainer – if it lasts another five years, I think we’ll have gotten our money’s worth. Side note for home installers: If you are installing this on an older MBP, it’s worth also ordering a Torx T6 driver when you order this – it’ll save a trip out to purchase said driver!Instructions on doing the upgrade itself abound on the Internet – and it took less than 1/2 an hour to complete the drive replacement. We have a Time Capsule and restoration of the last backup took about two hours with the computer hard wired to the Time Capsule.
10 people found this helpful
ijgray –
2014 itemDates written on the backReturned
Max Carrte’ –
Doesn’t really increase the speed of your computer, good for a back-up hard drive, but still slow when using it for that. Don’t wast your money, spend more and get the real full SSD, otherwise you’ll be disappointed. It’s still better then nothing.
Beni –
I used it for few days now, and works as expected.
Geno –
The dive was packaged real good. it was double boxed, Don’t have any complaints on this order. But! I knew I should have went with the terabyte model! But hind-site is always 20-20! O well it’s way better, and much faster than my old 160 gig drive 🙂 And so far, I would definitely recommend it to any and everyone!, so far!!! we’ll see if it last though, Oh yeah I did a clean install on my `07 dell Inspiron 1520, it had vista 32 bit, laid down a new copy of Win 7 64 bit, runs great, 25 second time, boot time. it’s stable, no crashes, AND, it went out and got all the drivers too! yeah!!!I started at 8 PM and was loaded and up and running by 8:25, 🙂 except for the updates, I HAD To find my router key. 🙁 All in all,. that’s not to shabby! Will do the wife`s next, same configuration too
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JWD –
Habe diese Festplatte in Laptop eingebaut, das ging schnell und ohne Probleme von sich. Das Backup hat Acronis True Image tadellos erledigt. Zu Geschwindigkeit ist nur soviel zu sagen – besser ist es aber kein wunder. Eine SSD ist da im gesamten Bereich deutlich schneller. Wer aber für 500GB nicht Unmengen an Geld ausgeben will ist auf jeden fall besser bedient wie mit einen reinen HDD.
Meintii –
Installed this in my DV6 HP laptop with no prob, bolts right on the HD case already there. Speeds have increased DRAMATICALLY of the original standard HD. My laptop does seem to run alittle hotter though (already an issue with DV6’s). After I loaded windows to it, I was left with 486GB free for all my stuff. Not bad at all.
C S MERRICK –
The machine which I intended to install this drive would not work with the drive. It was too thin to fit into the connector, so I had to get another drive. This works fine in an external USB drive enclosure though.
TonyT –
Easy to fit but took time to re-install windows and old data . Works well and is faster than old hard drive which is a bonus. Good price as well at £25.
COLES –
Si
E Schaeffer –
I purchased to upgrade a old laptop. I cloned and replaced the original hdd. The laptop now starts super fast and operates like a new computer.
kévin n –
Acheté pour l’installer dans une PS3 je suis satisfait à 100%.J’ai l’impression que mes jeux charges plus vite (légerement ceci dit).Il est plutôt silencieux. Ce qu’on entend le plus c’est le Blu-ray de la PS3 donc rien à craindre.Le prix n’est pas excessif sans être hyper compétitif j’enlève donc une étoile (Presque 70€ pour 500Go).Très bon pour ma PS3 n’ayant que 12Go d’espace.
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Weibo Xiong –
it is good, but not that fast as it described. But compare to 5400RPM HD, it is fast enough
karmacausey –
This was a perfect replacement drive for my old PS3. My son kept losing his games when the original drive started to get errors on a pretty regular basis. I did some searching online and found instructions on how to replace the drive. It was super simple. This drive was on sale during Cyber Week and I grabbed it up. PS3 works great now and seems to be a little quicker on the load screens. All in all well worth it for the price.
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Blue –
easy to install, medium size. unlike the old drives no moving parts. great for photo storage,
Dario Q. –
Arrivato con leggero ritardo ma ne valeva la pena. Buon prezzo e buone prestazioni, sia per capacità che per velocita’. Il pc si e’ nettamente avvantaggiato, come se fosse un disk SSD puro.
CarolinaBoy –
I have mixed emotions. I bought the drive back in mid October of last year (2014), and it is still working, and pretty trouble-free, so that gets us to at least a 3-star rating. But I can’t say I have noticed any real speed difference in the time it takes to boot up or shutdown. Granted, I didn’t time it before and after. Wish I did, but generally speaking, I don’t think if I told you this hybrid drive was now in the PC, you’d ever know the difference performance (speed) wise. BUT I have had a couple of instances where my PC did not want to shut down properly in the last 6 months, and you eventually have to use the PC power button to shut down Windows 7. As you know, if you hold the power button down for 8 seconds or so, it causes a hard and abrupt shutdown of the PC and the OS. At least two times, this caused my Windows index files for the search utility in Microsoft Outlook to be hosed. I can only guess that the search index file was being managed on the SSD part of the drive, and it was cached but not fully written (saved) when the PC powered off. But it was not a big deal, because over the course of the next day, Windows rebuilt the file. But I know it was happening because I search my Outlook email almost daily for some older email messages, and the search utility was not working fully and said it needed to reindex everything. I don’t recall this every happening in the 4 years or so I’ve had my Dell XPS 15Z with the original drive from Dell, but to be honest, if this is the only problem I have with this drive, I will be satisfied.
Mr. K. Cairnie –
It’s a good value hard drive and is ample for what I need it for
Ethan –
Works great!
Majo71 –
Ich habe diese Festplatte bereits in sehr vielen Laptops verbaut, bei denen die alte Festplatte ausgefallen war oder die Kapazität nicht mehr ausreichte. Bisher ist mir noch keine Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD ausgefallen. Dafür schon mal großes Lob!Aufgrund der niedrigen Bauhöhe hat sie bisher in alle HP oder Lenovo Laptops gepasst. Wer einem alten Rechner nochmal neues Leben einhauchen möchte sollte zu dieser Platte greifen.Fazit: Schnell, robust, ausfallsicher und gutes Preis- / Leistungsverhältnis. Windows 10 startet wesentlich schneller von dieser Platte als von einer herkömmlich (werksseitig) verbauten HD. Sehr zu empfehlen!
Ghiran Horea Dan –
Bonjour je
Byron –
I did plenty of research before deciding to choose this drive over any other hybrid drive on the market. I currently use a 2011 Macbook Pro Unibody, Intel i7. My stock hard drive failed, so I replaced this one by myself. The replacement only took a few minutes (look up how to replace macbook pro hard drive on youtube). So far, this thing has outpaced my old hard drive in every aspect. Boot time is noticeably faster and opening apps is much quicker as well. It runs nice and quiet and hasn’t had an issue when I’m playing games.The special thing about this drive is that it saves your most used programs within the solid state portion, so they open up faster. I’ve been using it for well over a month with no issues whatsoever. Highly recommend this hard drive to both Mac and PC users.———————————-Update: About a year after buying this, it completely died on me. Seagate does have a manufactures warranty though, so I’ll send it into them for a new one (hopefully). But be mindful, this thing took a dump on me after just one year.
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Gordon French –
My hp laptop was running very slowly under win10 .So I upgraded by improving the hard disk.This hard drive is brilliant it is half SSD and half conventional drive following the instruction cloned the existing drive and that was itThis drive has completely changed my laptop it is at least 3x faster!If your laptop is slowing down to nothing fit one of these drives
Lukas B –
Ich nutze diese Platte nun schon ein halbes Jahr in meinem Laptop (MSI GP60 PF Leopard Pro) und muss sagen ich bin restlos überzeugt.Der einbau ist ein Kinderspiel und man kann sie ohne jeglichen Umstellungen im BIOS nutzen. Windows ist blitzschnell installiert und die bootzeiten sind einfach nur unglaublich. (Es dauert jedoch 10 bis 15 Start-Zyklen, bis die SSHD ihre volle “Bootgeschwindigeit” erlernt hat.)Programme starten blitzschnell, was ich so nur von SSDs kenne. Jedoch sollte man auch beachten dass es sich trotz der eingebauten SSD immer noch zum Großteil um eine HDD handelt, weshalb man bei größeren Programmen kaum einen Geschwindigkeitsvorteil erwarten sollte. Große Spiele wie GTA5 sind natürlich viel zu groß für die 8gb SSD und dessen sollte man sich beim Kauf auch bewusst sein.Hier noch eine kurze Zusammenfassung:Pro:[x] Bootzeit von ca. 30 Sekunden mit installiertem Antiviren-Programm, Steam, Cyberghost usw.[x] Kinderleichte Installation, ohne Bios umstellungen[x] Fast alle Vorteile einer SSD, für einen günstigen PreisNeutral:[~] Benötigt einige Boot Vorgänge um zu lernen (so sind SSHDs nunmal)Ich spreche eine ganz klare Kaufempfehlung aus, da der unterschied zu normalen Festplatten auf jeden Fall zu spüren ist. Sie ist jeden Cent wert!Ich hänge noch einen Benchmark als Bild an, jedoch sollte man daran denken, dass dieser nur den HDD Teil der Festplatte repräsentiert.(Die Werte sind für eine Notebook Festplatte sogar extrem gut!)
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Landon –
Bought this hard drive to replace my stock MacBook Pro Late 2011 hard drive that had become quite noisy as of late. Not a massive difference as far as speed is concerned (though boot up and down times are improved), but the HDD is now much quieter and seems to consume less energy. I installed the disk myself without issue, just look up a YouTube video if you are unsure how to do so (beats paying a professional $100+ to do so). Very satisfied in the approx. 3 months of usage!
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John Agres –
After installing the hybrid drive, I noticed that my computer is much faster both in starting up and while using applications. I would recommend this drive to anyone who would like to keep their laptop or even desktop (as long as it has SATA connectors) a few years longer and not have to go through the expense of buying a new computer. Of course, you have to have some knowledge of removing and replacing hard drives and cloning your old drive onto your new one. Fortunately, this information is always available via Google search.
José Luis Solano –
Good Product
Alfonso –
Hasta ahorita todo bien, a muy buen precio el producto y trabajando sin problemas.
gdfr15760 –
This hard drive arrived in an unmarked box with only the hard drive in a sealed electrostatic bag. While the hard drive seems to work, the sound it made on the initial start – a louder than normal whir – gave me the feeling that this drive won’t have very long life. The positives are that with the SSHD hybrid drive, my computer start time is faster as is other hard drive intensive activities, like scanning. I would suggest that you purchase this drive with caution and the understanding that this hard drive may not be of good quality.
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Allen –
The other reviews that state that the performance is better than a standard HDD but not as good as a pure SDD are right. I have noticed that the things which this helps speed up the most are cold boots, restart boots and program startup. Other than that, it’s a 5400 RPM laptop HDD, therefore, it is what it is.But…$77. While the performance needle is about halfway between SDD and HDD, the price is much closer to HDD. Which what makes this worth it. I wish I would have gotten a desktop variety of this product when I upgraded my desktop hard drive last year.
MR M MATEI –
I am very pleased with my purchase, I will buy another one for my son laptop, really do the job, I notice a big difference in speed performance
Malc –
The hard drive in my laptop died so went for this drive, it’s only been in for 3 weeks but it’s all good so far
inayat2012 on youtube –
I used Acronis Home 2010 to clone an existing 500 GB drive to this one. Worked with no issues. And I tried a few tasks after rebooting the laptop with this drive in it. Boot time into Windows 7 on old drive and first boot on this drive was 60 seconds. At 3rd reboot into Windows 7 it was ~22 seconds. Same performance improvements seen when opening common applications such as Chrome Browser and MS Word. This really does work. Woo Hoo.
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Graham –
Used it to replace a old drive works great its faster would buy again
Lebo Xu –
The drive works fine. However, it came in sort of OEM package, not retail box. This should be mentioned in the list. Not sure how this would affect Seagate’s warrenty.
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Kmreeves –
Renew my hard in my laptop witch pack in .
Jarod Sullivan –
Works flawlessly in my PS4 slim,. Swap was easy enough.. hardest part was installing the PS4 firmware witch was also fairly easy..
Chris Bevan –
It does the job.
David Billington –
As the primary OS (windows 10 Pro) drive.
Tom Holt –
My laptop HD died on me so I bought this Hybrid drive to replace it. It is every bit as good as the advertising claims. I reckon my laptop now boots in about half the time – 15 seconds, and shuts down almost instantly. Also, the machine comes out of sleep in a couple of seconds. An undocumented advantage is that Internet connections are also noticeably faster, presumably because much of the cacheing is done via the SSD. I’ve had it for a couple of months now with no issues. So why only 4 stars?Seagate haven’t really thought these drives out. The HD part defragments just as much as any other HD. Mine is currently 38% fragmented – which would have been crippling on anything other than a Hybrid drive. But you can’t defragment without compromising the SSD. Every defragmentation shortens the life of the SSD and also temporarily slows it down since defragtmentation destroys it’s ‘memory’ of what you do most often. The simplest solution would be a utility that temporarily suspended the operation of the SSD until you had finished defragmenting the HD. So far as I know, no such utility exists. The only solution is the unsatisfactory one of defragmenting much less frequently than the state of the HD requires. This nees sorting!
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Gerd –
Bisher habe ich diese SSHD 2 mal verbaut und habe bisher keine Rückmeldungen über Probleme erhalten.Nach der Installation der Software, inkl. BS, Treiber und Anwendungen, ist der gefühlte Eindruck beim starten und beenden, daß dieser Vorgang etwas zügiger zu sein scheint, als bei einer herkömmlichen Festplatte.Aussagen über einen Langzeitbetrieb kann ich dazu leider nicht machen, bzw. Technische Nachweise erbringen, die meinen gefühlen Eindruck untermauern.
Eric Mager –
Habe diese laptop festplatte gekauft um eine defekte xbox festplatte zu ersetzen, sie funktioniert einwandfrei und ich habe bisher keine performanceprobleme damit gehabt, auch am PC war die festplatte relativ schnell, für den preis sehr empfehlenswert, wer nicht direkt in eine SSD investieren will.
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Eckhard Schulze –
Ich dachte, das meine gar nicht so alte Toshiba Festplatte mit 500 GB schon schnell sei, aber die Seagate SSHD hat alle Erwartungen bei weitem übertroffen. Nach dem völlig problemlosen Umzug auf die neue Festplatte in einem Acer Notebook 18,4 Zoll mit 2 Festplatteneinschüben von 2007 und mit Hilfe des Paragon Festplattenmanagers 2012 von einer älteren Computerbild CD startete Windows wie erwartet nach ca. 1 Minute. Jeder weitere Neustart führte jedoch zu immer schnellerem Start. Nun braucht das Hochfahren nur noch ca. 25 Sekunden. Auch alle Programme sowie auch Google starten schlagartig. Bin total begeistert und kann diese Festplatte nur wärmstens weiter empfehlen. Einen Unterschied zu einer reinen SSD kann ich allerdings nicht beurteilen.Aber ich glaube, das dürfte nur Marginal sein.
James Torkornoo –
very efficient and impressive
Angelo Trujillo –
Bought this for OG Playstation 4 after the original one crapped out and worked like a charm. Very affordable and was super easy to install. Had it for a few months now and still works!
R.E.S.. –
I take back my first review.After 6 months of normal use, this junk drive started clicking and will no-longer boot into Windows 10.If it actually longer and was reliable, it would be a great drive, and it worked just fine for the short time that I used it. Power On Hours= 1,738/ Power On Count= 626I’m not buying another one; to be honest – – – – – – – – I can get a 500 Solid State Drive for slightly more money, and it will be a whole lot faster..
Dapip –
Bought this for a HP 6735b laptop. I cloned the existing hard drive running Windows 10 to this SSHD with no problems using the free cloning application supplied by Seagate via the Internet. The SSHD significantly decreased boot up time and the computer runs applications much faster than with the mechanical drive. The price is excellent. Really pepped uip my older laptop. A nice feature is that I now have an emergency backup hard drive with OS in case the SSHD becomes corrupted or fails. Note: There are no instructions at all included with the hard drive. I inserted this new drive into a USB SATA external drive housing and plugged it into a USB port of the computer to be cloned. Then booted up the computer, went to the Seagate Website and downloaded and installed he free cloning software. Then followed the directions provided by the software. Was a very straightforward operation. It took about an hour to clone a 256 GB hard drive to the the 500 GB SSHD. Once the cloning operation was completed, I turned off the laptop, swapped the new drive for the old, and booted it up. It has worked flawlessly since.
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Don G –
Windows 7 wont update, Service not running,, had to upgrade ” Intel Rapid Storage”.. Only marginally faster then a full 500g HDD but for the price if you need 500g, the improvement is noticeable.. If you can fit onto a small ssd thats the way I’d go.
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Timothy C Wyatt –
Great replacement for my failed previous drive. Simple replacement and transformed my laptop. Now loads Windows faster than it’s ever done. An upgrade for no extra money.
Mr. Fenster –
I replaced the hd in a 2009 2.26ghz macbook. It went smooth. I migrated all settings and files, but reinstalled all applications. Start/restart is fast. Programs open fast. I expect it will speed up as I use it more. I was planning on upgrading ram as well, I may wait as this seems to have solved all my speed issues for now.
KennethPresler –
This is working wonderful. Its fast with a boot time of about 9 seconds. Its a little frustrating for OS repair or reinstall as you have to know how to clear the SSD portion of the drive. the seagate tools seem to work as long as you dont have to many drives hooked up to the system
Fredy Perez Vidal –
Buen producto es lo que esperaba
Giuseppe –
Installato su un Mac book pro metà 2012. Al primo riavvio con l’installazione di Mojave è stato molto lento. Adesso si avvia con 1 minuti in meno rispetto all’hard disk originale. Direi giudizio iniziale buono ma va controllato nel lungo periodo
m. St. –
Die SSD liess sich problemlos in ein externes Festplattengehäuse einfügen und arbeitet derzeit als Festplatte für meinenSat Receiver. Preisleistungsverhältnis völlig in Ordnung.
Danteandroid4life –
I ordered the wrong hard drive but it still did the job. I will just make this my Minecraft backup drive. (Vergecraft, bartlecraft, etc)
Barry M. Cooper –
This is the first time I’ve installed one of the Hybrid drives, and color me impressed.I installed it in a DELL Latitude E6500, and I put on a fresh install of Windows 7. After getting all of the updates, I started opening and closing the Chrome browser ( my favorite) and shutting down and starting up the laptop.On every reboot, I noticed that the startup time was shorter and shorter. Opening the browser became almost instantaneous.I’m sure this will improve the longer the laptop is used, as the most used files are moved to the SSD portion of the drive.Anyone wanting a large capacity hard drive with near SSD performance levels should consider this drive!
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gage p. –
Perfect
R. Pföhler –
Nachdem unsere Festplatte durch unsanftes Fallen des Laptops ihren Geist aufgegeben hat, haben wir eine Festplatte gesucht, die den 5 Jahre alten Laptop nochmal einen Geschwindigkeitsschub verpasst. Dabei wollten wir die 500 GB der vorherigen Festplatte nicht schmälern und gleichzeitig nicht Unmengen an Geld für eine SSD-Platte ausgeben.Die Kombination aus HDD und SSD hat mich hier total überzeugt!Nach der Installation des Betriebssystems und aller benötigten Programme wurde die Festplatte langsam aber sicher immer schneller.Nach 3-4x “hochfahren” hatte sie ihre endgültige Geschwindigkeit erreicht. Betriebssystem Windows10 ist innerhalb 20 Sekunden startbereit (inkl. Passworteingabe). Direkt nach dem Hochfahren starten sogar Programme, die vorher (direkt nach dem Hochfahren) Minuten verschlungen haben, innerhalb weniger Sekunden.Die Festplatte kopiert automatisch häufig verwendete Dateien auf den SSD-Teil der Festplatte, als Benutzer bekommt man nichts davon mit.Ich kann die Platte nur empfehlen!
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G. Ng –
After reading overwhelmingly positive reviews about the performance and reliability for its target purpose, I decided to replace a failed OEM drive in my Lenovo X230. My overall experience was that I went through two units that each showed unreliability.Specifically, after reimaging and getting my laptop booting again, I tried playing some videos and noticed that the video would stutter with even the slightest bump. When this happened, there was an audible mechanical noise from the hard drive. The SMART stats showed slowly increasing reallocated sector count, and over the course of a week went as high about 50. Eventually Windows 7 blue-screened and at that point I returned the drive.I followed the same process with a replacement unit, and it didn’t seem quite as sensitive but still had some intermittent mechanical noises like the first as well as a nonzero reallocated sector count (still less than 50). Eventually it caused a blue screen again, and at that point, I returned the drive and went back to a plain old spinning drive of another manufacturer.My computer has been reliable since then with the traditional hard drive, although definitely not as snappy to start up, un-hibernate, or load some of my memory-hog applications. I miss the speed, but I sort of just got fed up with the troubleshooting. I might give the SSHD another shot later on, but hopefully what I experienced was just a bad lot of disks.
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Devon Roberts –
I just bought this guy 8/16 and swapped it with my original 160 GB hard drive that came in my ’09 Mac Book Pro. This one seems to run faster and significantly quieter! It was really easy to image from my old drive and physically swap them. So far so good!I would recommend this drive as a replacement for an OEM Apple Mac Book Pro 2009 model.
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Theringoffire –
Super Alternative zum Upgrade alter Notebooks (oder PCs), die keinen AHCI Modus auf SATA unterstützen und damit nicht vernünftig mit SSDs laufen. Ein zusätzlicher Pluspunkt: Bei Seagate Platten kann man den Modus fix per Jumper auf SATA-1 legen. Damit ist auch der Betrieb an alten Chipsets möglich. In dem Fall läuft die Platte an einem SiS 672/968 Chipset in einem Esprimo V5535.
JJ –
I’m not sure if I went with the right hard drive to replace the one in my laptop when it failed. So far this one seems to work better. Webpages load faster, accessing info seems a little faster. It may be in my head but I don’t think so. I didn’t want to spend the money on an SSD, so I’m hoping that this one not only lasts, but is faster in real life also.
TheTechGuy –
Not particularly straight forward to install in a Dell Inspiron but once in performs well. With the old hard drive cold start time was 1.55 but with the seagate hybrid it’s now an amazing 22 seconds!
MATTHEW –
Replaced the old 90GB drive in my Dell D630 with this one. Tried 2 SSD drives, but the firmware would not recognize them. I put this one in and it was immediately recognized. I installed OPENsuse Leap 15,0 back on it and it screams again! Good investment if you have an older laptop that you want to refurbish and repurpose!
Mr. G. Cooper –
Had some slight problems with cloning the original disc but this was the software not the drive. Increase in performance is very noticeable and the drive rating in windows agent up over 10% compared to a WD blue caviar drive. Would use again.
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Eric Caron –
Perfect replacement.
Lena Love –
I purchased this drive to use in a Dell Zino HD desktop. Original drive died due to heat; machine runs 24×7 and there just isn’t good enough ventilation by design to keep machine cool. This drive runs considerably cooler than the original (a 3.5″ 7200RPM Seagate 500GB) and seems to perform just as well. The drive would be a good choice for anyone who needs a drive that is fast, runs cool and is cheaper than a SSD.
Michael W. Floyd –
Great drive! Great response time! Just what I was expecting
Jeff W –
Even though this is “last year’s model,” or something like that, it still performs really well. I installed this drive in a Lenovo T510 running Windows 1 Pro and it brought the laptop up to its full potential. It cut my uptime almost in half. So far, this has been a great hybrid drive. You get many of the great features of a SSD without the SSD price. I may be buying a few more of these very soon.
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Kindle Customer –
This was bought for an aging laptop that had started to struggle. I had considered replacing with an SSD but this seemed a reasonable compromise between cost and the risk that it wouldn’t improve things.I’m happy to say that the disk has vastly improved the responsiveness of my laptop.Very happy that I made the purchase.
Kevinpugh –
Replacement for an HP disk which was on its way out. It has a slower rpm at 5400, but the hybrid bit makes up for that – more or less. The big benefit is the lower wattage which means the laptop runs cooler and the fan is not working all the time, and I might add, noisily.
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Erik –
Installed easily and works like a champ in my PS3. Definitely noticed a bump in speed…although the reason for replacing in the first place was that the old drive was obviously going bad, as I was unable to even play some games due to jittering. Still, I feel like the SSHD is running a bit faster than even when the PS3 was new.
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Damion Sowden –
I was a bit hesitant about the difference it would make on my 2008 macbook pro but its breathed new life in to it. I was thinking I need to invest in a new mac but not now. well worth it !!!
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Franz Jäger –
Ich habe die Platte in ein Medion Akoya MD96640 eingebaut und betreibe sie unter Win7Ultra. Die Startzeit hat sich dabei von 4,5min auf 1,25min verkürzt.Nach nun 1000 Betriebsstunden bin ich doch relativ zufrieden, die Platte ist nur halbsodick wie die alte, wird aber komischerweise wärmer, obwohl sie 2000 U/min langasamer dreht. Sie ist auch recht leise, im Normalbetrieb hört man sie quasi garnicht, nur hinundwieder führt sie, -besonders wenn sie richtig warm ist (54°)- Neustarts durch die ein wenig wie ein Zahnarztbohrer oder rumgetröte klingen.Einmal kam auch ein Bluescreen mit dem Hinweis, daß die Platte keinen Saft bekommt, weshalb ich auch gleich mal die Datensicherung erneuert habe.Die Platte ist eigentlich gut, nur kommt sie nicht besonders vertrauenswürdig rüber, deshalb erstmal nur vier Sterne
H J Duff –
This is a review of the Seagate 500 gig SSD/HDD hybrid I received.I haven’t noticed a speed increase yet,possibly because the SSD portion of this drive did not show up on my software as I was migrating the drive.Also, it was louder, and ran warmer than the drive I was migrating from as I was cloning it.I am cautiously pessimistic for the moment due to the noise, warmth and lack of speed increase, it’s possible that my drive was damaged.I will update this review if the speed increases as the SSD portion responds to my data usage,or if there is any other change in performance. I’ve restarted it several times but so far it’s no quicker than the nonSSD HDD it replaced.
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Koorosh –
Installation was smooth. After a month started making strange noises as if the HD is trying to reach a sector and cannons hence need to try again and again. When the noise everything become absolute slow, for obvious reason, cannons access the sector or something like that. I’ll contact the seller to see if I can return it.
Mr Sam. –
Read mixed reviews about this type of tech but found it works faster than my old hard drive. Set up is a little time consuming to move all data but you could pay someone to do it for you.
Fran –
Tengo un macbook de finales de 2007 al que le queria instalar un disco nuevo. Dudaba entre un hdd de 500gb, o un ssd de 128gb. En el caso del disco del hdd, sabia que iba a querer la velocidad de los ssd, y en el caso del ssd, no queria estar andando con discos externos o adaptadores para segundo disco interno. Asi que me decidi por este SSHD, y el resultado ha sido muy bueno.Al principio no hay mucho cambio, pero a los pocos reinicios ya se empiezan a notar los cambios. OSX se me inicia muy rapidamente, y el navegador y apps mas comunes se inician muy rapidas. Hay que dejar al disco duro que ‘aprenda’ que archivos son leidos con mas frecuencia. Estos seran llevados a la parte SSD del disco duro. Y gracias a los 500gb, ahora tengo 3 particiones, una con osx, otra con windows y una tercera con linux mint.Sinceramente, vale mucho la pena pagar 20€ mas que un hdd por este sshd.
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R. D. Clark –
My 40GB “phat” PS3 might seem like a relic, having been purchased in 2006′ but Sony’s policy of continuous updates have have kept it current, and it’s the oldest device in my current entertainment system.Their decision to make the HDD user-upgradeable is sort of astonishing, but it’s a way to give your old PS3 new life, and this Seagate hybrid HDD seems like an ideal means to take advantage of it.The physical upgrade is simple. The HHD is installed in an externally accessible slot in the end of the console. Pop off the cover, remove one screw, and slide out the HDD carrier. Remove the four screws holding the drive in the carrier, swap the drives, re-fasten the screws, slide the carrier back into the slot, replace the remaining screw and the cover. That’s it; five minutes. (But please refer to the official instructions provided by Sony.)Back up the old hard drive first, using the Backup Utility found in the PS3’s system menu. I used a 64GB thumb drive. Alter the upgrade, the PS3 booted right up, and I used the Restore Utility, which put everything back the way it was, except with lots more available HDD space and much better performance. The backup took a couple of hours, and the restore took half as long.If you are still using your old PS3 with its original HDD, you owe it to yourself to do this upgrade. Now you can fully install your games, which will immensely speed them up. You can keep tons of media files on board, and access to them will be amazingly quick. You can download as many games and demos as you like without worrying about HDD capacity.As for this Seagate vs. other drives, I have no basis for comparison. Looking around the web before my purchase, I found that Seagate’s claims of SDD performance at mechanical HDD prices are largely true. I’ve always had good luck with Seagate; indeed, the 2006 PS3 drive I replaced was a Seagate, and it was working fine. But I can’t tell you that this drive will seem much faster than a good mechanical drive of recent vintage.The important thing to know is that this is a good choice for upgrading a PS3. It’s compatible, it fits, and the improvement over an original Phat drive is immediately evident.
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Miss L. –
Its probably fine for most people but it was not compatible with my laptop. When I plugged it in it just said not copatible. I was a bit anoyyed as the listing had siad it would work with virtually any laptop and mine is quite a common one. Basically after some investigation I found out that laptops a bit older (mine is 7 years old) have a different number of bytes/something 512 instead of 4k (I am not so technical i cant remember exactly.)
Gerhard Ryska –
Zum aufrüsten meiner PS3 SLIM ideal.SSD zwar merkbar schneller. Allerdings habe ich den Eindruck, dass eine SSD nicht wirklich unterstützt wird.HDD merkbar langsamer.SSDHD nur ein weniger langsamer als die SSD, wesentlich schneller als eine HDD. Und das System läuft nach wie vor ohne Fehlermeldungen schön stabilDaher klare Kaufempfehlung
John Hazeltine –
The SSHD is pretty fast but not quite as fast as I thought it would be. I have a 7200 rpm that goes about as fast…..
S. Marani –
Un disco che mi ha permesso di rivitalizzare un vecchio laptop ASUS aggiornato a Windows 7 da Windows XP.Le prestazioni non sono decadute e qualcosa sembra essere migliorato (sicuramente nei tempi di caricamento del s.o.).Con l’utilizzo le prestazioni, secondo quanto afferma Seagate, dovrebbero migliorare.Da non trascurare lo spazio disco aggiunto (partivo da 120GB).Un buon acquisto
Leo James Perez –
I used this item to replace the stock hard disk on my HP dm1-3205AU. The old one is also 500GB so the upgrade is the 8GB of NAND storage in the SSHD. The rest of the specs are essentially the same.To be honest, I had a hard time migrating the data from my old disk to the SSHD, but I found that Acronis True Image worked like a charm in cloning the disks. I just had to hook both disks to my Windows 7 machine and let the software do its thing (True Image isn’t compatible with Windows 8 installed in my dm1).While I didn’t notice improvements in my first few boot-ups, eventually, the hard disk “learned” the apps and files that I frequently used and stored those in the solid state part of the disk. The result is a noticeably faster boot up from pushing the power button to the splash screen compared to using my old hard disk.A small caveat here is that I use my laptop for productivity and charting software only, so no gaming or any other graphics-intensive processes done on it. At first, I hesitated in buying this item because of the small SSD portion in the hard drive. But if you are a relatively light user like myself, that 8 GB of NAND storage is more than enough.Overall, I am extremely pleased with my purchase!
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Cedric –
Einfach eingesteckt und losgelegt. Eine Konfiguration des SSD-Hybridmodus ist nicht erforderlich (und nicht möglich), die Partitionierung ist wurscht. Windows startet wirklich deutlich schneller (Windows 10 in ca 10s). Wenn man nach jedem Bootvorgang die gleichen Programme startet, ist der Unterschied auch sehr zu spüren. Das gilt auch beim Laden von z.B. Spielen. Startet man etwas anderes, dauert es dann aber erst einmal wieder etwas länger (das “(Um)lernen der Benutzergewohnheiten” nimmt man war). Beim Kopieren von Dateien nehme ich nicht sonderlich große Veränderungen im Vergleich zu meiner alten HDD war. Ich kann diese Hybrid-Technik wirklich weiterempfehlen! Meine restliche Hardware wäre mit einer richtigen SSD überfordert, aber das ist die perfekte günstige Zwischenlösung!
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Jragon Boy –
Excellent hard drive. Not sure if I believe that there is 8gb of SSD in there though. It doesn’t show up in the partitions anywhere, nor do I notice my hdd not spinning up when using my most used programs. Had to take a star off for the likely possibility that Seagate is trying to put one over on us consumers.
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Juan Diego Sanchez G –
The HD has some expected performance, however, thetre is some speed inprovement that could be done on it. In general review, it is a good upgrade to me Mac Book Pro Late 2012 and the work speed with the applications is more than i expected.Recommended as initial upgrade if you don’t have much money to built your Mac/Windows desktop/Laptop.
Markus –
Also was an dieser Festplatte schneller sein soll, als an einer HDD ist mir ein Rätsel. Ich denke einen wirklichen Unterschied sieht man nur bei einet SSD. Aus meiner Sicht lohnt sich der Kauf nicht, weil die Festplatte keinen Sinn macht. Dieses Urteil darf ich mir erlauben, da ich seit über 20 Jahren im IT Bereich unterwegs bin. Ich habe die so bestellt auf Wunsch, den Rechner eingerichtet, sehe aber kein wirklich schnelleren Vergleich zu einer HDD. ich bin mir sicher dass eine SSD festplatte im Moment das ist, was man sich kaufen sollte wenn man Schnelligkeit haben möchte.
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soydeleon –
Este disco duro sustituye a uno de 80GB en un ultraportatil. Ha funcionado perfectamente con un interface SATA I, La diferencia de velocidad, sobre todo en el trabajo normal es muy buena. Algo se nota cuando haces operaciones que no usan la cache, pero poco (copiar archivos a/desde otra ocupación, ver peliculas, …).Trabajo sobre todo con archivos pequeños y he notado que el trabajo con batería se alarga un 20%-25% porque el disco está prácticamente parado siempre.Muy recomendable para portátiles antiguos, en lo que la duración de la batería es un factor crítico.
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rene tf1 –
Gut für werdende Mediengestalter und Grafikdesigner. Super ersatz für ssds.Photoshop, Ligtroom, InDesign und co. Laufen ganz Anständig besser wie mit hdd. Genauso wie der Explorer, der die Dateien schneller lädt, öffnet und vorschaubilder anzeigt. Gerade gut wenn man RAW Dateien öffenen möchte.Der Start von Win 7 braucht ca 25s ohne Kenwort. Hardware: AMD a10 7300 bis 3,2ghz + 8gb RAMDie Datenrate kann ich nicht genau beziffern aber die müsste bei 110-120 MB/s liegen man muss halt bedenken:es ist keine ssd mit 500MB/s.Sie Läuft bei mir mit 3 Partitionen, wurde heil geliefert und bin sonst sehr zufrieden.
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Edwin D. –
Not as fast as an SSD, but faster than a regular HDD 7200 RPM, and much faster than a regular HDD 5400 RPM. It takes 3 weeks to a month to work at its best, because of the Hybrid technology, but once it recognizes the programs you work the most with, it becomes faster. A significant increase in boot time. Higher capacity than an SSD and faster than a regular HDD.I recommend defraging the disk after installation, and then disabling the automatic windows defrag program, so the SSD Nand technology can go to work.
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Derek –
It won’t work on a Dell Optiplex it comes up after installing with an error Windows cannot finish loading on this hardware
Ben G –
Perfect for what i needed.Does the job intended and has sped up an older laptop. It’s only been in for a couple of months so no way to tell how durable it is.
SERBANOIU LAURENTIU –
Hard disk comprato meno di 2 anni fa e già rotto e perso tutti i dati dentro. Contattato il venditore ma risposto che ha garanzia di un anno invece quando comprato c’era scritto 2 anni.
Luciamartin1 –
Thought this was a new drive, but suspect it has been used and reclaimed as manufacture date was 2014. That said works well so far and has a 1 year seller warranty so ok for what I required it for.
Kirk Rasmussen –
I Love this hybird hard drive. The oldest PS3 acts like it a 250 gig instant response with 500 gig capacity. and 6GB per second of transfer rate & 64 megabytes of cash storage it is extreamly fast for what i’m using it for. I LOVE IT. Downloaded games come up faster than the blue ray player……
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Muzizi –
Good price
Tonie Tran –
Install in an an HP laptop because Windows Vista is too slow. After completion, boot Vista. It is about 30% – 50% faster. It’s also a little faster when click to run a program. But it’s not anywhere 3-5 times faster. I have installed 2 solid state drives and they are 3-4 times faster. Not this one.I am not sure what I am buying here. A little bit faster hardrive? This is not a big improvement for my laptop.If you want to speed up your system, buy a 256 G SSD, or at least 128 SSD, and then use your existing hardrive as USB external drive. Don’t bother with this one.
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J. Schroeder –
-Preface/background:I have a 128GB SSD in my laptop (2.4 GHz dual core processor, 4GB RAM, Win 7 Ultimate) so I know what a full SSD is capable of. I was expecting mediocre performance out of the SSHD, but I was pleasantly surprised after the install. This SSHD is installed in my desktop: 3.6 GHz AMD FX4100 Quad Core, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, Win 7 Ultimate.-The Good:Start up times are almost as fast as my laptop. There is MAYBE a second or two difference in boot times. Shut down times are almost instant as well, again, maybe a second or two behind.-The Bad:Read/write times are average, no faster than a normal HDD.Programs are not as fast as my SSD, but still slightly faster than with a normal HDD.-Summary:If you want a modest bump in boot-up/shut-down performance, while still maintaining the added storage capacity, this is a great middle ground. I’d buy it again in a heart beat.(Windows will NOT recognize this drive as an SSD, which means the “windows score index” tool will only rate it at 5.9. I can promise you that this the boot/down processing is FAR beyond a standard 5.9 level HDD, so just ignore that rating)
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rehpotsirhc –
I upgraded my 160 GB PS3 slim with this and it makes a significant improvement in HDD install heavy games. I timed the boot time of GTA V (which has a mandatory 8GB of data installed on the HDD) on my original drive and then on the hybrid drive and I saw a marked improvement; the boot time with the original drive was 2 minutes and 23 seconds, which dropped to 2:11 on the first boot and then down to 1:28 on the second boot as the hybrid technology was implemented.
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Matthew Tupper –
I bought this drive to upgrade a Windows 8.1 laptop. I wanted to balance price, performance and capacity and I feel these HSSD’s do just that.Is it as fast as an SSD?… NO!Is it allot faster than an HDD?… Yes!Have I exhausted the capacity?… NO!All thinks considered this is a good solution.
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Musicfan –
The Toshiba hard drive on my 3 year old Sony laptop recently died and being a grad student strapped for cash, I couldn’t afford a new computer. I have very little computer knowledge, but installing this was pretty simple once I looked up some video tutorials (not for this specific product, but in general). I have Windows 8 and it loads and shuts down in mere seconds. I don’t notice making any loud noises or slowing down. I have had it for about a month and so far so good. Be sure to back up your data because hard drive failures often happen unexpectedly.
Mikey –
MAYBE not quite as fast as a SSD … but I use it for storage … it works great and the price was right. Small and more bang for the buck.
DiGbi –
After two weeks it’s still working fine. Fast enough as a second drive. Transfer of most files to and from SSD main drive is instant.It does make some odd noises from time to time but most of the time it’s quiet.
Mohsen Sangsefidi –
Good hard drive my laptop works faster now .Thx
Mumma Cat –
Great hard drive. Computer works better and faster than it did before!
Luis –
Excelente producto, lo compré para suplir el HDD de un xbox one que se había descompuesto, trabaja muy bien.
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Ian, London –
This works a good compromise for a laptop upgrade. It does boost boot and other performance by speeding up the drive access to frequent processes. However, it could do with upgrading the SSD portion to 16GB or 32GB. This would massively improve the laptop speed as modern page fiels can be quite big. Having the page file on the SSD portion massively increases PC speed as I have found on my desktop upgrades.
RPM –
Let me start this review by mentioning the pros of this drive:-Fast-Cheap-QuietMechanically, it does what it’s supposed to do. Unfortunately, it does not fit in the Dell Inspiron 1545, unless you don’t mind it basically floating around freely inside your laptop. It fits in the 1545’s hard drive cradle, and it slides into the slot, but this drive is TOO SHORT to connect to the SATA port inside the laptop. Really Seagate??It IS possible to push the drive into the slot without the cradle (effectively connecting it to the SATA port inside), but doing this will make it extremely hard to remove the drive, should you encounter any hard drive issues down the road. You also risk the chance that the drive may come disconnected from the internal SATA port, which obviously isn’t a good thing. I suspect this fit issue may explain the “budget price” of this drive. I will likely return this for a different brand, unless I can come up with a good way of securing it. Shame on you, Seagate!
ET –
The drive is quiet and easy to install. Since the drive is thinner than the old drive in my laptop (not an ultrabook) it didn’t seat (connect properly to the laptop) the first time I put it in. The trick is to push the drive in when the laptop is not turned upside down so the drive slides in with the pins low, to connect with pins in the laptop.In daily use, it is noticeably faster than the non-hybrid SATA drive it replaced; the speed feels somewhere in between regular SATA and SSD, but closer to SATA. The price is right, too.
PC Junkie –
Works great and I am enjoying faster boot times and system performance without having to spend a lot more for a full SSD. It can’t touch an SSD for speed but if you want higher capacity and improved performance over a standard HDD at a much lower cost this is a great compromise. Just know that you won’t see this improved performance right away, it takes a little time to learn how you use your system. I noticed a big difference after about 5 reboots.
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auralia –
I bought this on 28 June 2014. Two years later, after upgrading my MacBook to El Capitan and replacing the laptop’s battery, I have come to realize that the drive I actually received and installed was not the ST500LM000 8GB NAND SSHD I ordered, but rather the 7200RPM ST500LM021-1KJ152 Thin HDD model. I have had great performance with the HDD I installed, but wonder how much faster the computer would boot with the SSHD, or if my computer would run hotter or cooler, considering the SSHD has an average operating power of 2.9W, while the 7200RPM HDD has an average operating power of only 1.5W. The HDD will probably outlive my computer at this point, so I might never know. Either way, the 32 second boot time is acceptable
Michael Lawrence –
I used this hd in my zotac zbox .it took literally 15 seconds to install and does what it supposed to which is give me tons of space for music.It seems pretty fast though I’m not really a computer guy everything is instant and seemless so that’s gotta say something.
Abdul –
Haven’t used it for long but lord is it fast. Well compared to HDDs i’ve used. Arguably, though, my previous one was extremely slow even for a harddrive. Awesome product thus far. Easy install, boots like a charm. But imaging the drive was a pain, had to find someone who already had Acronis true image because clonezilla didn’t work given my previous hdd had greater capacity. If you want to clone ur drive make sure you get reputable cloning software or kit beforehand, or know someone who has. I tried my kingston ssdnow kit, the software only works for kingston products.
Film Fan –
Bought this as a replacement HD for an Acer laptop. Same memory capacity as the drive it replaced, but runs much faster. It has only been in the laptop for a couple of weeks, so impossible to say how it will pan out long-term, but so far I haven’t had any problems with it.Bonus- nice clean installation of the operating system, with none of that junk bundled by the manufacturer.
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Selcuk Cicek –
Bekannter brauchte eine neue Festplatte.Will viel Leistung für kleines Geld.SSD – schnell, aber auch teurer.HDD (normale Festplatte) in Ordnung, aber nicht sonderlich schnell.Also SSHD.Diese hat einen 8GB Flash-Speicher, welcher mit speziellen Algorithmen arbeitet, um festzustellen, welche Programme und Prozesse oft verwendet werden und so diese Dateien auf den schnellen Flash-Speicher ablegt.So viel in der Theorie.In der Praxis ist es einfach eine gute Festplatte, welche von den Leistungsmerkmalen (Schreiben mit 90 Mb/s) super arbeitet.Kostet nicht viel.Ist auch eine Empfehlung für Playstation und Xbox.
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HonestReviewer –
My laptop has 4GB of ram and when I would have ram hogging programs open it would sluggish. I just had a regular HDD 5400rpm before the hybrid and the hybrid drastically speed of my laptop performance under heavy ram load. I did not notice any speed up in normal usage like program load times but games load a lot quicker and my average ram usage in task manager went down too. Don’t think that this drive will give you a ssd experience cause it want but if you wan’t your computer to perform a lot better underheavy ram usage similar to SSD get this drive. Oh web pages load quicker when a lot of tabs are open at one time.my speed comparison scale of 1-10:5400rpm HDD – 2.57200rpm HDD – 3.5Hybrid Drive – 6.0SSD – 9.5
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Justin Leavell –
I’m not sure I would use this as a gaming HD but its a 5400 drive with a small SSD built in for speed boosting. The product is what it says it is though and it works great
DaveofCoalville –
I wouldn’t recommend OEM HDD for Windows laptops as neither Windows Disk Manager nor Seagate Disk Tools can see this HDD. Due to this being an OEM HDD, Seagate recommend only their own branded HDDs’ so I’m returning this HDD
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Ikona –
I had to replace the drive in my laptop because the older one was dying on me. I wanted a solid state, but had to go with this instead. Now I am happier with the Hybrid because I get both speed and size. So far its been great. I can run MATLAB, Hyper-V, Photoshop and more with no issues and in many if not all cases I can do that while having either Microsoft 2013 running and/or Google Chrome without issues!
Kindle-Kunde –
Wichtig war mir, dass ich mit dem Autausch der Festplatten mein Tablett beschleinige. Dies habe ich mit dieser SSH-HD erreicht. Die Daten habe ich mittels Cloneprogramm übertragen. Das Clonen habe ich zur Erleichtetung und zur Sicherheit über einen zwriten PC gemacht, an welchem ich die HDs nacheonander angeschlossen hatte.
Craig G Forbes –
This drive worked perfectly but there was one unexpected situation. This is a thinner drive than most 2 1/2 inch drives that I have. One older laptop had a problem with the thinner drives. For some reason not all of the contacts made proper connection. The thicker drives worked properly because there was mechanical pressure on the top. It took some experimenting to find what the difficulty was.
Issac E. Howard Jr. –
Despite the fact this is a very late review on this, I’ve always preferred Seagate simply because they’ve never failed me. When a few unmentioned others have. This was an excellent drive in its day.
Gregory –
Good
Alex –
Obwohl der PC mittlerweile 9 Jahre alt ist, mit der neuen Festplatte funktioniert er wie am 1. Tag! Mit etwas mehr Arbeitsspeicher und da sich die Festplatte merkt, welche Dateien häufig benötigt werden, ist der PC super schnell! Normales surfen funktioniert in einem Fluss ohne jegliche Wartezeiten und wenn man Dateien anfordert, die man sonst nie braucht, dauert es einen sehr kurzen Moment und dann werden auch die sehr schnell und flüssig gelesen. Auch große Dateien lassen sich schnell übertragen und der PC fährt phänomenal schnell hoch! Keine 10 Sekunden und ich habe Firefox geöffnet.Edit: 1 1/2 Jahre später ist immernoch alles hervorragend
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Curtis loustel –
Used this to fix my laptop when the old hd stopped working. Laptop now works quite a bit faster than it did before and I’m very pleased with this product, would recommend this drive for anyone looking for a new hard drive. Ended up buying the 2 tb version for my PS4.
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olivier –
disque non reconnu sur mon ordi , peut être une incompétence de ma part mais je doute.
Retired engineer –
I purchased this for an older ThinkPad that was having some Windows problems. Inexpensive and plenty of storage for my purposes. I created 2 partitions, 1 for the OS, and the other for data. Boot time decreased from minutes to seconds. This dual core machine now boots Windows 7 in about 30 seconds. An SSD would be nice, but a 500GB SSD currently costs more than the computer is worth, so the $65 I paid for this was well worth the $$$.
Gary H –
This was a replacement for an existing drive in the laptop.Easy to replace, loaded the image of the OS, copied the data back, and booted a few times. Then I opened the usual suspects a few times. Why? The “SSD” portion of this drive is better thought of as a cache. So, with the few boots and opening the more used programs, I ‘primed’ the cache.The laptop flys compared to the old drive.I’d highly recommend this to those who do not wish to spend to get a high capacity SSD for their laptop.It’s great.
Luke M –
Very Happy, I purchased this to replace an 80 gig on a 7 year old laptop with windows 7 4 gig ram, after cloning the os to the SSHD the boot time went from 1min20sec to just 40sec. I decided to install a fresh copy of win 8.1/64 and followed advise from http://www.overclocked.net to speed it up even more and boot time went to just 25sec. Keep in mind it takes a few boots for the SSHD to “learn” I plan on purchasing more in hopes the same experience with other laptops I’ll refurbish.
Matt –
This drive compared to a solid state is decently fast. The speed is also dependant on many, many other factors such as cpu speed, memory, fonts install, etc, etc.For my uses this drive works great and it’s pretty speedy too. The amount of space for the price is also pretty good. It’s no SSD but it works as well or better than a 7200rpm with none of the noise.
EnnioT –
Il disco è stato sostituito all’originale contenuto in un Packard Bell EasyNote TS (rovinato in seguito a una caduta).La compatibilità è perfetta. Il prezzo molto buono.L’incremento di velocità, visibile espressamente solo all’accensione e spegnimento, non è pari a quanto ci si aspetta dalla pubblicità del costruttore, probabilmente anche a causa dell’architettura del PC, di qualche anno fa.
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AielloBaseball –
I bought this seagate sshd as a replacement hard drive for my acer intel i3 laptop. I couldn’t believe how much faster my laptop is now. I am a college student so my laptop gets carried and bumped around a little bit, but there have not been any issues at all 3 months into its life. and the price was great! You definitely get the best bang for your buck with this hard drive. Very noticeable improvement in my laptops performance since using this hard drive.
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Brett –
I got this for use in my PS3. It was great at first but it seemed to work really slow when I would try to play new games. I’m not entirely sure this was the best choice for my intended purpose.
toast420 –
The hybrid drive speeds up turning on and getting the initial boot loaded wich is nice and the price was right but I would not say the hybrid actually speeds up the searching of the drive, if you research this you will learn that it really isn’t meant to do that but in all honesty the drive works perfectly
Cliente de compra verificada –
Este disco ayuda a que el arranque sea más rápido que con un disco de 5400 rpm, y se nota más después de 4 a 6 veces que se encienda el equipo. Sin embargo, en general las demás aplicaciones y la apertura de los demás archivos se vuelve más lenta que antes de instalar el disco híbrido. Recomiendo uno de 7200 rpm o más o de plano un SSD
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Jürgen –
schnelle SSHD Festplatte. wird nur ziemlich heiß, sobald etwas größere Datenmengen kopiert werden, sind schnell 50° erreicht, einmal sogar 54°. Langlebig ist das bestimmt nicht.War gedacht für Einsatz in Tinkpads X220 und X260. Die alten Festplatten, auch von Seagate, erreichen gerade mal 38 – 44° bei Belastung. Auf den Bildern sind die Temperaturen beider Festplatten beim klonen zu sehen, daher die Angabe von Crystaldisk Info Gesamtsystem “gut”.Platten formatiert, überschrieben, Partitionen gelöscht und zurück geschickt.
PeonyFlower87 –
Works perfectly with the PS3.
Khleon –
If you intention is to install it into a laptop be sure you have how to hold it right to the sata connection since this disk is thinner than regular (like an SSD I think) and comes with no adapter (frame) to lift it up in case you need to.Otherwise good product one star missing because they should include the adapter as many SSD does.
Juan Pablo –
El producto venía muy bien protegido, el precio excelente, lo que podrían mejorar es el tiempo de respuesta de las importaciones.
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Greg Heckman –
Perfect. Easy to install, thin.
Ramona –
Das Produkt ist super. Würde es jederzeit wieder bestellen.
Bob –
I initially purchased this to increase the storage space and to improve the performance of my old laptop. It was taking about 1.5 minutes to boot up. With this disk installed, it takes about 40 seconds, and has sped up my laptop a great deal. I am very happy with this purchase.
Squaddie… –
Excellent replacement hdd
Joe G –
This has worked well for my needs. My laptop is several years old and had a old 5400 rpm drive. I didn’t want to replace the laptop quite yet, so I elected to upgrade the hard drive with this. The performance increase is definitely noticeable, so I’m glad I went this route. It should give me another year or two of use out of this laptop before having to drop the big bucks on a new one. It may be also worth mentioning that some of my performance increases may be because also increased the amount of total memory installed and did a complete reload of Windows as well to make sure things were running about as good as they can get for this old computer.
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Derrick F. –
Perfect, fixed my laptop
ClassicLotus –
If you are looking for a reasonably priced upgrade for your laptop this hybrid drive is it. You will see improved performance out of any laptop purchased within the last 5 years – I don’t know about performance in laptops older than 5 years. The hybrid drive is the idea solution if you want the speed of SSD but don’t want to shell out for the high cost of large capacity SSD drives. This drive uses adaptive technology so it learns what files/programs are used most and places them in the SSD portion of the drive. Don’t let the 5200 RPM spindle speed deter you – It is not noticable due to the SSD capability. The drive may have better reliability at the lower speed.This is one of the best bang for the buck upgrades you can make to boost laptop performance in a slightly older machine – probably would be good in a new laptop that has a traditional HD as well.
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HippyPhysicist –
Might have been good in its day. My advice is to save you money and buy an SSD instead.
H. Pierce –
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that had the original 250G drive running Mountain Lion (Skipped Lion). I was running out of storage and got this drive to give a performance and storage boost. Installation was a breeze and I get the full 3Gb/s SATA II speed. And Mavericks works great on my MacBook.
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Carlos Enrique Frías Navarro –
Pese a ser mi primera experiencia con unidades híbridas, hasta ahora ha sido satisfactoria, el arranque de mi lap es rápido y mantengo un espacio decente de almacenamiento. Dependerá de la durabilidad el comprar de nuevo una hibrida de esta larca pero de mayor capacidad de almacenamiento.
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Cintelle Informatique –
ok
colin toepel –
where too start well my ps4 hdd was going out i have too say i am very impressed shipping was fast installing it in the ps4 was a easy my system run 100% better then the hdd that came with the system the combo of ssd and hdd is right on the money normally i have bad luck but i am very please with the product i would recommend want too thank the vendor for being honest and true keep up the good work it show there good people still out there
MTV905 –
Quick and simple to install.
Nebri –
Seems to be holding up great so far! Doesnt seem loud at all and definitely has no errors thus far. I needed it in a pinch since my old hard drive died so this worked quite well! Loads up at a good speed for what I need it for
kike*** –
No hubo mucho cambio en windows
Gurney –
Used this as an upgrade to my PS3. The install and update/restore of the new drive went pretty smoothly. It’s great to have the extra capacity, but I have not noticed an increase in game load speeds or system startup.
DigitalFluidity –
Installed Win 7 o/s as a new recovery to the drive. Updated o/s to present date, then turned back to customer for use.. Time will tell if Business Class Laptop User remains happy with an older PC with a fresh newly rebuild on the SSHD drive that is now 5 times faster than the previous drive that was removed from service (a still working 500GB HD.. but was changed out for better performance)
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perstare –
This drive, ST500LM000, is listed on Seagate’s Data Sheet as a “Laptop Thin SSHD.”· It is 7mm thick. Bear this in mind for where you plan to install it. Be sure it will fit. If it does not, Seagate does have 5mm thick drives available.· It is a hybrid drive. In practical terms, that means that if this drive is used as a boot drive, the boot times and loading times for frequently-used programs will be faster.· 64MB cache.Right now, I own three drives like this. I use them as external data drives. They are very reliable.
Yair Solis Nieves –
Se tardo como una semana en llegar pero valio la pena. Aun no he tenido ningun problema con el producto.Actualizacion, 2020: Solo compren un ssd nomal, no hay necesidad de un “hibrido”.
farouk souleymane –
Arrived
Galoppi –
Eigentlich war ich von der ersten SSHD echt begeistert: Start in nicht mal der halben Zeit wie von einer normalen Platte. So hatte ich mir nach der “Testplatte” 500 GB eine mit 1 TB gekauft, alle Daten und Fotos aufgespielt und täglich unendlich viele Daten den Geschehnissen angepasst.Die Enttäuschung war groß, als ich nach ein paar Wochen das System nicht mehr starten konnte. Beim Anschalten des Computers hörte man ein fast schon Vogelzwitschern ähnliches düt-düt-düt, das wieder holte sich 2-3 mal bevor das System auf das BIOS zugriff. Es wurde keine HD mehr erkannt (3 Partitionen) Da ich – Bruder Leichtsinn – keine Sicherheitskopie gemacht hatte (das waren verdammt viel Daten aktualisiert – Rekronstuktion wohl 10 Arbeitstage ohne Pause – versuchte ich verzweifelt in kurzen Abständen das System zu starten.Nach einige Zeit die Überraschung: nach den ersten beiden Male düt-düt-düt fing die Platte an zu arbeiten. Ich schaufelte alle Daten auf die 500 Platte und baute diese ein. Die 1000 Platte wollte (und werde) ich beim Hersteller monieren.Damit ich aber mein System wie vorher geplant von XP auf WIN 8 gefahrlos übergeben kann, kaufte ich mir eine 3. Platte – wieder 500GB – clonte das System und baute diese Version in mein System ein. WIN 8 wurde installiert und lief auch ohne Probleme.Der Schock dann am 2. Tag, als ich das neue System starten wollte. Wieder düt-düt-düt – doch dieses Mal war es mit einer Folge dieser Signale bereits soweit, dass das System kurz hing und dann den Startversuch über das BIOS anzeigte und meldete, dass keine HDD vorhanden. Sicherheitshalber versuchte ich Neuinstallation von WIN 8 doch auch hier war bald Ende, weil WIN 8 mir ebenfalls meldete, dass keine HDD an Bord.Fazit: Es scheint so, als wenn der “Faden” zwischen dem SSD-Startteil und er HDD nicht stabil genug.NICHT empfehlenswert – aus meiner Sicht Schrott, denn ein Ausfall von 67 % nach 1 Tag bzw. wenigen Wochen kann sich kein User leisten, und ist er noch so gut abgesichert
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Kjoslin –
Have bought two of these over the past several years. They work great and have no complaints. Yet to see any wear out and die as well. Definitely worth the cost if you’re looking for just a good solid sata drive.
Gerald –
I like this so much I have purchased two of them for my older laptops, and specified it when I ordered my latest Windows 8 laptop. It gives you all the speed of an SSD drive, but with the luxury of a lot of storage space. It works well with Windows 7 & 8, and several versions of Linux (debian based). I also have the 750GB version in another laptop with the same performance.
FEEL –
TRES BIEN
Sybscha –
Tut was es soll prima
Jitendra –
Better than normal hdd. But nowhere near ssd in performance or data transfer.
Jesus M Esparza III –
Received it yesterday 09/14/2015 been updating my PS3 Super Slim all night So far So good, runs excellent will update if I experience any issues.
sketching with photons –
I’m actually using this as a desktop replacement drive and so far it has been wonderful.I don’t do benchmarks or anything like that as i don’t feel its THAT important in life, but for a sound drive replacement, this has proved to be really good.Access times and boot times are great – much faster than my old failing drive anyway so I ‘m happy and its really cheap!Cant go wrong.
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Mike1 –
When fitted and software re-loaded it work like new, has given my PC a new lease of life.
Grecu Razvan –
This is not a new drive, probably refurbished, as it was covered in this disgusting sticky gunk with someone’s fingerprints visible on it. Tried to clean most of it with IPA, but there’s still some left. Drive works fine, but this is not a new device. I’ll keep it for now, because I’m only using it to store some not-very-important files on it, but fingers crossed it won’t stop working after a few months. Either way, spend your money elsewere, this is absolute rubbish.
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TVH –
The Seagate SSHD 500GB HD is better than expected. Plug and play installation couldn’t be easier. All software and updates were loaded in less than 5 hours, probably could have been quicker if I was paying attention the whole time but there are other things to do so you just let it load and update when you get to it.This was installed in a 2010 laptop that accepts sata drives. No issues with the install. The hard drive runs very quickly. It seems even faster than the 320gb 7200 rpm it replaced. The HD runs very quiet and I found out why it’s called a “Thin” HD, because it is 2 or 3 mm thinner than a standard 2.5in. Even though it is thinner, it fit with no issues and works better than the hard drive being replaced.
Brett Roquemore –
Good drive. It is much faster than the old standard HDD. The hybrid drive loads much faster and opens Excel or Word so much. It is like my old laptop is new again.
Novikovas –
Ich habe diese Festplatte in mein 3-Jahre altes Toshiba Notebook eingebaut und dadurch originale Toshiba Festplatte ersetzt. Mein Notebook ist viel schnelle geworden. Die Performance habe ich nicht gemessen aber rein subjektiv – viel schneller. Windows und alle Programme starten viel schneller. Es ist mir jetzt viel angenehmer mit dem Notebook zu arbeiten. Die Idee Hybrid-Festplatten finde ich sehr gut. Die alte Festplatte habe ich in ein Gehäuse rein gesteckt und verwende als externe Festplatte. Die Investition hat sich gelohnt. Preis – Leistung ist seht gut.
Alan –
Great price and easy fix for a failing HD on my PS4(original). My system was very laggy and borderline unusable. I everything took forever to load like it was running on AOL. Improvement in load times was amazing and system is running like new. Download speeds are also much better. Definitely recommend.
Haq –
Brilliant price and product.
Ted Weiland –
Bought to replace hard drive in early 2011 macbook pro. It is thinner than the original hard drive so you will either need a spacer to put between the hard drive and the bottom cover or just be aware it will move around a little.Works perfectly, very happy with performance.
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basto –
Nach dem Umtausch auf einem betagten Lenovo B570 haben sich die Bootzeiten von Windows7 spürbar verkürzt. Auch die Anwendungsprogramme starten flotter als mit der Originalfestplatte. Alles in Allem hat der etwas ältere Laptop eine regelrechte Verjüngungskur mit dieser Festplatte erhalten. Übrigens wurde Windows7 nicht neu installiert sondern 1:1 von der alten auf die neue Festplatte übertragen.
John B –
HDD started beeping after a power outage. Now it won’t even show up in the boot selection. I was expecting more from a Seagate
movin-on66 –
I have an older model HP laptop that I added this SSHD drive to. Of course it did a great job increasing its processing speed. But as it was designed, has learned what programs I use the most and quickly accesses them. The addition of this SSHD drive has given my laptop new life and vastly increased the start up speed when I switch on my laptop. Very glad I made this purchase.
Lynn Cocksedge –
Another great product from Seagate. Easy to install and works well
Lovecarbon –
Installed into PS3 works good so far,, small performance upgrade. But the space is so crucial with all the free games i install onto the system, no complaints so far hope it lasts for years to come.
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LN777 –
I just installed this in my macbook pro mid 2009 and works very well. Boot time and Loading up photos were faster. Very quiet SSHD. I used time machine to backup the old HDD onto an external, installed the new drive, hold command + R while the computer is booting up, used the HDD utility to partitioned the new HDD then restore from the external drive.
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alain paul leleux –
bonjourvoila pour moi en disque de secours ou pour un 2 eme disque oui pourquoi pas ou pour les personnes qui ne connaisse pas le SSD mais autrement avec impeut plus que 8 go en flash cela aurais ete mieux mais bon vue le prix faut pas en demander plus sinon ca fonctionne bien
Eric Lukens –
I installed this in my laptop and had no trouble getting it to work. The hybrid drive does provide the storage of a larger drive with an extra boost of speed noticeable when using applications repeatedly and on startup.I cloned my old drive using various free software online, the software had no trouble talking to the drive.Some users are probably better springing for the SSD, but this met my needs.
Philip W –
Was having a slight hard drive failure with a WD hard drive in my PS3, so I bought this to replace it. Games no longer skip that utilize the hard drive for swapping data with the ram. Load times are significantly faster and gameplay seems much smoother. Overall, I also have a better record with Seagate hard drives too, whereas my luck/track record with WD drives is pretty bad with them failing in various ways shortly after I buy them.If you have the money for this, I’d recommend buying one, and not an SSD. I don’t think you’d see drastic improvement with an SSD and you’d get more bang for your dollar, in terms of space AND speed, with an SSHD like this over buying an SSD.
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javier gonzalez –
good replacement for my old school laptop, remember those with a dvd drive? yeah those ones. SSHD feature helps boost the cpu faster but i noticed a decrease after couples of months dont know why im not a cpu guy but it is what it is and still faster than my old burnt out regular hdd
Steve Leo –
I replacedy hdd that came with my asus g72g laptop.perfect fit and I transferred all with my old files and windows pro with acronis and it worked like a dream.I DID HAVE TO FORMAT IT WITH SIMPLE VOLUME thru disk mgr before it was recognized.Works good and quick start up
Andres –
Es un poco más rápido que el disco original de la PS4, pero no creo que valga la pena pagar por el extra de la memoria flash. Lo compré porque costaba más o menos lo mismo que un disco puramente magnético.
Neil Shephard –
I purchased this item for use in the Lenovo Thinkpad T430. That particular laptop allows the cd/dvd device to be removed and replaced with a hard drive should the owner, as I did, prefer more storage over disk reading and writing. I am quite satisfied to date with the performance of the Seagate drive. As to technical points such as speed of transfer I am not that knowledgeable to comment. For my needs — holding downloaded applications free or purchased and text files– the drive is ample and reliable.
K. Kry –
Das ist meine erste Hybridplatte- Habe ich für eine älteres Laptop gekauft. Bisher erst drei Tage im Gebrauch und habe festgestellt, das die Schnelligkeit vollkommen ausreichend ist. Für mein Laptop hätte sich eine SSD preislich nicht gelohnt.
ElecEnthusiast –
Ok, I literally just received this hard drive and am currently reinstalling my system recovery on my laptop. So far the drive works perfectly. I will update the review later about speed and responsiveness after I have used it for some time.The reason I am writing this review so soon is that the drive came not as advertised. Seagate makes this drive is 3 sizes: 5mm, 7mm, 9.5mm. The drives are labeled as follows:5mm – Ultra Mobile SSHD7mm – Laptop Thin SSHD9.5mm – Laptop SSHDI bought this 500gb hard drive knowing that the one in my laptop is 9.5mm. The product clearly states “Seagate 500gb Laptop SSHD” and the picture along with it also says “Laptop SSHD”. The one I received is actually the 7mm Laptop Thin SSHD. This did not affect my install because my HP Envy 14 has a built in bracket that positions the drive. Any of these three drives should work in my laptop; however, I wanted other buyers to be aware of this in case they absolutely need to have the proper size
Colby –
Works perfect in my dv6
Linuxuser –
This hard drive (Old Model Seagate 500GB Gaming SSHD Sata 8GB NAND Sata 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Internal drive) runs good. Though it’s not as fast as SSD drive. The performance is above average, especially if the laptop is designed for using SSHD drive. If the laptop is not designed that way, the performance may not be as good.On a laptop designed for SSHD, the startup time is about 23 seconds vs 16 seconds if using SSD drive.
Hector –
El disco inicio funcionando muy bien, sin embargo despues de 4 semanas empezo a generar problemas….se esta trabajando y de repente aparece la leyensa…sin sistema operativo…haynque reiniciarlo varias veces para que vuelva a cargar el sistema
Dante Jesus Benitez Martinez –
Está muy bien; el funcionamiento del disco es muy bueno.
Al –
This is an excellent cost effective solution to needing a faster larger drive but not wanting to spend a lot of money.What not as fast as a full SSD it is faster than a normal spindle drive and a good trade off for size price and speed
Parshva Computers –
Good product but, bad seller who did not add my GST details in bill while paying GST
Sam –
Ich habe mit der SSHD den Laptop meiner Verlobten aufgerüstet (Belinea o-Book 13).Eingebaut –hochgefahren – Windows installiert – fertig.Pro:-Startvorgang dauert nun 16 Sekunden (früher 1:06 Minuten)-die meisten Programme laufen deutlich schneller-keine Probleme mit dem BIOS des 8 Jahre alten Notebooks-sehr leiseKontra: nichtsWir sind sehr zufrieden
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Kurt I. Clift –
Arrived promptly and just as expected as always with seagate products never let me down yet would definitely recommend and there is a noticeable difference between the Hybrid drive and a standard one. Very happy 🙂
Tom –
This thing was a royal pain in my rear end to get to work right! I had to format the drive twice in order to get windows seven to even see the drive. To be honest, not worth the trouble.The drive still works, and it runs pretty smooth for a sshd but for 10 more bucks I can get a black drive of the same size at Microcenter which runs faster then these dudes do.Also, can we please have a 16 gig SSD cache for these drives in the future please? Not an 8 gig cache, Thank you.
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PanduhByte –
Bought mine refurb, i had a 1tb one and wanted another one for my laptop. Solid work from seagate. wont notice much change at first until the drive gets used to how you work. and it will fly faster than usual. please, more NAND memory next time guys.
Richardtony –
Guter Preis gute Festplatte
Swan Man –
Very straightforward to fit into my Toshiba Satellite laptop as a replacement for a larger and slower standard HDD. Because this was smaller than the HDD it replaced, I used Macrium Reflect to image the old HDD and swap it over, as Windows backup is, well, it seems ok for some people some of the time but it was making me pull my hair out. But I digress. Installation from the Macrium image was smooth as a baby’s bum and since then my laptop performance is significantly improved; boot time (switch on to useable) has dropped from a painful 1m45s to a suave 30s; Outlook opens and is workable in 5 seconds rather than the previous 30s, and overall performance is smoother and glitch-free. Highly, highly recommended.
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Tomasz S. –
Good replacement for some OEM laptop hard drive.Much faster than the OEM laptop hard drives.Works quiter than the OEM laptop hard drives.From what I know, it is also working very good with PS4, however I never test it in that way.Much slower than the standard SSD drives, but also much cheaper.
Philip Reese –
I bought this to replace a failed traditional notebook drive. The performance increase was slightly noticeable at first, but over time it does learn to cache frequently used files and eventually becomes speedier.Comparing it to other computers in the office with full-fledged SSDs, or the SSD in my home desktop, it’s a slouch. A pure SSD is WAY faster than this guy, but that said, it is still better than the notebook hard drive it replaced. On a 1-5 scale of performance, I’d call a traditional drive 1, a good SSD 5, and this product a 2. Don’t get me wrong – it does what it should, but don’t expect an insane performance increase.Bottom line – buy this if you must have a lot of storage space. It will be faster than other options with similar capacity and shouldn’t cost much more. But if you can live with less space and/or rely on network storage, spring for an SSD. They’ve gotten so cheap that for most people they’re the best choice.
F. T. –
I’ve been using this for about 2 years and I got it as a replacement for my laptop’s old hard drive, back when high capacity SSDs were still too pricey. When it comes to performance this is somewhere in between an old style hard drive and an SSD, which makes sense since it’s a hybrid drive that has components of both. I did notice an improvement in performance after I installed this drive. If you don’t want to go full SSD then this is a good choice.
Bob smith –
Read all the reviews and bought this for my laptop.Installed Linux Ubuntu 13.10 clean install, and booted the laptop a few times.Now boots in seconds and load Firefox so fast.So far so good and a nice stopgap till ssd prices fall further.Very happy.
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Ye olde nerd –
Ich habe diese Festplatte für meine Playstation 3 gekauft, da mir die 120GB Standardkapazität nicht mehr ausgereicht haben. Die Eckdaten dieser SSHD haben mich von Anfang an angesprochen und ich wurde nicht entäuscht. Das die PS3 aufgrund ihres OS und des fehlenden SATA 6GB/s nicht die volle Leistung dieser SSHD ausschöpfen kann – bekannt und geschenkt. Lautstärke, sehr geringe Bauhöhe und die Leistung sprechen für sich. Klar, Riesensprünge gibt es nicht – aber allemal besser als die verbaute “billige! Toshiba HDD allemal. Ich bereue den Kauf nicht und habe jetzt erstmal wieder mehr Geschwindigkeit und Platz auf meiner PS3!
Florian –
Le disque fonctionne parfaitement. Le démarrage va nettement plus vite, l’ouverture de Firefox et Thunderbird n’est maintenant qu’une formalité.Je regrette juste cependant de ne pas disposer de pilotes/utilitaires (compatibles GNU/Linux bien évidemment) nous permettant de détailler l’utilisation de la mémoire Flash du disque.
Siegfried321 –
Tut was sie soll, schnelle Platte, gutes Arbeiten
John Ford –
What a difference in performance compared to my old 5400 RPM HDD! No hassle installing/configuring – it just works.Edit 11/04/2015: I bought another of these for my other laptop (a Toshiba Satellite Pro R50 B 12V) but having performed a system recovery it wouldn’t boot. I installed the drive out of the old laptop just to try and that worked, plus the original one still works obviously, But no matter what I tried, I just couldn’t get the new one to boot so I tried the one I put in my old laptop and that is exactly the same. I got an immediate refund but I was really disappointed to have to return it obviously.
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Guy –
The hard disk failed on my Lenovo Yoga laptop. I did consider a solid state drive but this device seemed like a good performance/cost compromise.And so it had proved. The laptop now boots up in about half of the previous time. It also seems much ‘crisper’ in use.This may not be a full solid state device but it performs more than adequately for my purposes.
B., Christoph –
Diese Hybrid-Festplatte verspricht das beste aus zwei Welten: Massig Speicherplatz wie eine HDD, gepaart mit SSD-Geschwindigkeit. Leider sind keinerlei Installationshinweise für Mac OS X enthalten, so dass man im Festplattendienstprogramm doch ziemlich auf sich selbst gestellt ist.Das Laufwerk ließ sich bequem einbauen und als “HFS+ Journaled” partitionieren, wodurch aber die ursprüngliche Zweiteilung in SSD und HDD wegfiel. Am Mac wird sie nun als eine “rotierende” Platte angesprochen, Hinweise auf eine SSD fehlen.Die Platte bootet schnell und läuft gut. Ob der spezifische SSD-Vorteil wirklich am Mac zum Zuge kommt, lässt sich nicht sicher ermitteln, und Hinweise bei Seagate.com gibt es keine.Also eigentlich ein schönes Konzept, das aber noch etwas mehr Produktpflege und Support vertragen würde.
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Diego –
So far no issues, which should always be with a new disk.If I have any problems I’ll update this review.
Andrew Watson –
Installed this disk in my 2008-vintage Macbook Pro 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo (Model No: A1226), replacing the original 120GB drive. The reduced boot times are an eye-opener – down from about 3 minutes (running MacOS 10.5.8) to under one minute after 6 reboots. The machine feels faster for day-to-day use too – applications like MS Word definitely start up faster (although I haven’t timed this).Method: Install the drive in an external caddy, do a fresh OS install on it. Boot from the “new” OS on the external disk, (yes, I know 10.5.8 is ancient, but I have applications that won’t run under any later MacOS version) and apply all the most recent OS patches. Still running from the external disk, use Migration assistant to copy user files and applications across to the new drive. Once happy that everything works, open up the machine to swap drives.Instructions for opening the Macbook are at iFxiit here:[…]The only really nerve-wracking bit is popping the five plastic catches at the front of the case. Watch this video from about 4′ 30″ to see the method I used:[…]For my “black stick” I used a screwdriver with insulating tape wrapped round the blade.Final note – once you’ve swapped the disk, Time Machine will try to backup the whole machine from scratch, even though almost all the data is unchanged. This “Mac OSX Hints” item shows how to reconnect the new drive with your old backups. So far it seems to work for me:[…]
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Maximilian Käser –
Ich war zwar zunächst erstaunt, dass der NAND-Speicher nur 8GB hat, aber das scheint auszureichen um dem Laptop deutlich spürbar mehr Speed zu geben. Für wenig mehr Geld als eine normale gute Festplatte eine echte Bereicherung und der neue Mindeststandard für gut ausgestattete Laptops. Eine reine SSD-Festplatte wäre sicherlich noch gut schneller, aber HDD’s haben auch Ihre Vorteile bei der Anzahl der max. möglichen Wiederbeschreibvorgänge.
König Kalle –
Habe meinem Sohn (Zocker) diese Festplatte gekauft, weil er seine alte zerlegt hat. Er ist sehr zufrieden. Nach dem Einbau startet das Notebook nicht nur schneller, er hat auch einen schnelleren Zugriff auf Dateien. Liegt wohl am Flashspeicher.Ich habe aber nur 54,00 Euro gezahlt. Die scheint teurer geworden zu sein.
Roberto –
El envío fue más rápido de lo esperado. En cuanto a las prestaciones del disco, es más rápido comparado con uno tradicional, se nota sobre todo en el arranque. A mi me me ha mejorado entre 20-30 seg en el arranque de inicio de windows 7. Para las aplicaciones también es rápido, se abren en menos tiempo que con un disco duro tradicional. Pero no esperéis rendimientos de ssd, puesto que la velocidad de es muy superior. Merece la pena por el precio que tiene y las prestaciones
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djbillc –
quick delivery good quality
Kraegor –
I did not notice a great increase of speed (maybe 10%) over a regular hard drive. But I was using this in a Macbook, so it is possible the Mac does not use this well.I would definately go for an SSD over this, but it gets the job done if you are on a budget and need more space.
John M. Wong –
I bought this as a replacement for a Crucial 256 GB SSD drive died without warning with all data lost. It appears to me that SSD drives don’t fail gradually like mechanical drives which usually give plenty of warning before they fail.
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Frag54 –
Alliant un système SSD couplé au stockage de données installé dans un boîtier en USB 3.0 auto-alimenté c’est parfait pour créer un disque nomade de taille réduite et rapide. 800H de fonctionnement et le disque présente déjà des secteurs en erreur non réparable ( dixit crystaldiskinfo) il ne va pas tarder à lâcher, déçu par le produit.
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Stefan –
Ich habe die Festplatte aufgrund der guten Testberichte gekauft. Die Lieferung erfolgte sogar einen Tag eher als angegeben.Sie wurde im Laptop meiner Schwester von mir verbaut, da ihre alte Platte den Geist aufgegeben hatte.Nach der Installation des Betriebssystems und diversen Updates startete ich den Laptop mehrmals neu.Da ein Teil der Platte ein Flashspeicher ist und die häufig genutzten Daten in diesem geladen werden, war eine deutliche Steigerung der Startzeit möglich.Klare Kaufempfehlung
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Herr Kaiser ✅ –
Mit einer SSHD wie dieser von Seagate bekommt man einen Hybriden aus Festplatte und Flashspeicher. Also wird quasi die Geschwindigkeit einer SSD mit der Kapazität und dem geringeren Preis pro MB einer normalen Festplatte gekreuzt. Allerdings sollte man beachten, dass die volle Geschwindigkeit nicht direkt nach dem Einbau anliegt. Die SSHD analysiert die Zugriffe und verschiebt häufige angefragte Dateien auf den Flash Anteil der Platte. Für die volle Geschwindigkeit beim Booten muss man den Rechner schon einige Male hoch und runter gefahren haben.Zum Einsatz kam die Platte, um einem älteren Notebook (auch im Zusammenspiel mit etwas mehr RAM) wieder deutlich mehr Geschwindigkeit einzuhauchen. Zudem hatte das Notebook nur eine Festplattenbucht, was eine SSD Lösung weniger attraktiv machte. Zudem wäre eine SSD ja ja auch teurer gewesen. Im Ergebnis konnte ich die Bootdauer des Notebooks mit dieser SSHD stark reduzieren und auch sämtliche Anwendungen vom Browser bis zur Textverarbeitung starten viel schneller.Die Installation der Platte ist auch denkbar einfach; hierzu muss man lediglich die bisherige Platte klonen und das Image auf die SSHD spielen. Eventuell muss man noch die Partitionen anpassen, wenn man vorher zum Beispiel eine kleinere Systemplatte hatte. Dann kann man die neue SSHD einbauen und der Rechner fährt genauso hoch wie vorher. Ich nutze diese Platte nun schon in zwei Rechnern und bin höchst zufrieden. Wer kein Platz für eine SSD als Systemplatte hat oder einfach ein paar Euro sparen will, bekommt mit der SSHD ein gutes Stück Hardware, um den Rechner schneller zu machen!
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townie49 –
Very easy to install in a first gen PS4 and being a hybrid hd it’s much quicker, can’t fault it for the price.
Maggie Haynes –
No complaints this is what i needed for an older laptop for my kids. easy to install and is not failing.
Brandon –
I bought this as a replacement for an SSD that I had in my laptop, I needed at least 320gb and an SSD in that capacity is beyond my budget as a student. This isn’t quite as fast as the SSD but it gets the job done much faster than the traditional HDD that I was forced to revert back to.
kailorg –
Buena solución para mejorar un portatil antigüo. El arranque es mucho más rápido, así como el manejo de programas a nivel de usuario.
matty –
Purchased this to help performance in a 3 year old Intel i3 laptop. The stock hard drive in most laptops is only 5400 RPM and just isn’t built for performance. I looked at SSD’s but really for the price these hybrid drives give near-SSD performance without compromising your pocketbook or disk space. This will now be only type of drive I purchase.
BRW –
Sped up my aging laptop for way less than new… It is not as dramatically fast as an SSD, but makes boot times go from a minute to 30 seconds or so? And you get way more space than comparable SSD. Good balance of cost / size / speed!
Stan –
Durch die Abonnierung von PlayStation Plus reichte der Festplattenspeicher meiner PS3 fat 80GB (Modell CECHK04) natürlich vorne und hinten nicht mehr; bereits bei den Retail-Games musste ich immer wieder Platz für die Installationen freiräumen. Deshalb musste für die monatlichen kostenlosen Spiele-Downloads eine neue Festplatte her. Zunächst war der Kauf einer gewöhnlichen HDD geplant; nach kurzer Recherche wurde ich jedoch auf SSHDs (Hybridfestplatten, deren gewöhnlicher mechanischer Speicher um schnellen Flash-Speicher erweitert wird) aufmerksam und stellte fest, dass man für 500GB Speicher zu einem nur geringen Aufpreis von ca. 15 € (zu einem vergleichbaren HDD-Modell mit 500GB) einige der Vorteile einer reinen SSD bekommt und dies auch mit einer PS3 funktioniert.Die Meinungen bezüglich des Nutzens einer SSD in der PS3 gehen auseinander; viele sehen den hohen Preis der SSDs für den erhaltenen Geschwindigkeitszuwachs als nicht gerechtfertigt an – angesichts der Verfügbarkeit von Hybridfestplatten (SSHDs) neige ich dazu, dem zuzustimmen. Die Leistungsunterschiede zwischen normaler HDD und den Flash-Platten sind definitiv spürbar (dazu später mehr); der zwischen SSD und SSHD jedoch zumindest auf der PS3 kaum erwähnenswert, wobei die SSDs bis jetzt deutlich teurer sind. Somit lohnt sich meiner Meinung nach der Einbau einer SSHD in eine PS3 definitiv und ist absolut zu empfehlen.Im Detail:- Produkt:Die Seagate ST500LM000 ist eine 2,5″-SSHD (Hybridfestplatte) mit 500GB Speicher bei 5.400 Umdrehungen pro Minute und 8GB Flash-Speicher. SSHDs sind mit einem “lernenden” Chip ausgestattet, was bedeutet, das oft verwendete Dateien (wie beispielsweise beim Boot-Vorgang) im Flash-Speicher abgelegt werden und darauf schneller zugegriffen werden kann. Die Platte passt problemlos in die Halterungsschiene der PS3.- Einbau (mit Datentransfer) in PS3 fat 80GB:Da ich nicht alles neu konfigurieren, installieren und herunterladen wollte, mussten die Daten vorab gesichert werden. Hierfür benötigt man eine externe USB-Festplatte (natürlich mit ausreichend Platz für die Sicherungsdatei) im FAT32-Format (hierfür gibt es kostenlose Formatter, einfach googlen) sowie einen USB-Datenträger mit der neuesten Firmware (benötigt man in jedem Fall, auch ohne Datentransfer). Nach der Datensicherung via [Einstellungen] > [System-Einstellungen] > [Datensicherungsprogramm] konnte der Einbau vollzogen werden:1. PS3 vom Strom trennen,2. Deckel an der linken Seite der Konsole abnehmen,3. Sicherungsschraube per Kreuzschraubenzieher abschrauben,4. Halterungsschiene mit alter HDD rausziehen,5. durch Entfernen der vier Schrauben HDD von der Halterung trennen,6. neue Platte befestigen und zurück in die PS3 schieben,7. Sicherungsschraube wieder anschrauben und Deckel drauf -> fertig.Dieser Vorgang dauerte keine fünf Minuten und klappt problemlos. Danach alles wieder anschließen, USB-Datenträger mit der Firmware einstecken und PS3 starten. Dann den Anweisungen folgen und nach einem weiteren Restart ist die PS3 mit neuer SSHD einsatzbereit. Nun schließt man die externe Festplatte mit der Sicherungsdatei an und wählt erneut das [Datensicherungsprogramm] aus, um die Dateien wiederherzustellen (dauert in etwa so lange wie die Sicherung zuvor). Anschließend ist alles in genau dem Zustand wie vor dem Festplattentausch. Wichtige Anmerkung: Trophäen werden NICHT übertragen, diese daher unbedingt vor dem Tausch mit dem PSN-Server synchronisieren! Nach Umbau den Vorgang wiederholen, damit die Trophäen wieder da sind. Für den gesamten in diesem Punkt beschriebenen Vorgang gibt es auf YouTube hervorragende Video-Guides, in denen alles Schritt für Schritt erklärt wird.- Leistung:Der wichtigste Punkt – ist die SSHD den Aufpreis gegenüber einer gewöhnlichen HDD wert? Meiner Meinung nach DEFINITIV. Bereits beim Booten zeigt sich eine deutliche Verbesserung. Die XrossMediaBar-Benutzeroberfläche ist gleich nach Beendigung des Bootvorgangs flüssig und schnell nutzbar, auch die Symbole der einzelnen Punkte müssen nicht erst mit Verzögerung nachgeladen werden. Gleiches gilt in der Trophäenliste, die ich als besonders langsam erachtet habe; mit der SSHD funktioniert alles blitzschnell. Vor allem beim Öffnen des XMB während eines laufenden Spiels merkt man den Unterschied. In Spielen macht sich die neue Festplatte ebenfalls deutlich bemerkbar: GTA V lädt gefühlt nur noch halb so lange wie zuvor und hat in-game deutlich weniger Probleme mit dem Nachladen von Texturen. Assassin’s Creed 3 startet ebenfalls merklich schneller und die Ladezeiten beim Gebietswechsel sind auch verkürzt. Dasselbe bei Red Dead Redemption bezüglich des Startens. Bei auf der Festplatte befindlichen PSone-Classics konnte ich keinen Unterschied feststellen, hatte hier aber auch keinen erwartet. Alles in allem beschleunigt sich die PS3 subjektiv deutlich und macht die Benutzung angenehmer. Anmerkung: Die Spieleinstallation von BluRays ist selbstverständlich unverändert langsam – dies liegt an der niedrigen Lesegeschwindigkeit des BD-Laufwerks der PS3 und lässt dich nicht durch den Festplattenwechsel beschleunigen.- Laustärke und Wärmeentwicklung:Die Festplatte ist in der PS3 nach meinem Empfinden absolut unhörbar. Temperaturmessungen habe ich nicht vorgenommen, gemäß im Internet verfügbaren Berichten bleibt sie jedoch durchgehend kühl.Fazit:Die Anschaffung der SSHD für meine PS3 lohnt sich meines Erachtens eindeutig. Der Bootvorgang und das Laden der Spiele wird beschleunigt und die Benutzeroberfläche läuft merkbar flüssiger. Der Aufpreis zu einer normalen HDD ist angesichts des deutlichen Leistungszuwachses sehr gering und der Preis ist weit unter dem einer reinen SSD bei annäherend gleicher Leistung einer solchen. Somit eine klare Empfehlung hierfür.Bei einer PS4 allerdings könnte der Unterschied zwischen einer SSHD und einer SSD aufgrund der Dateigrößen eventuell deutlicher sein. Hier gibt es ebenfalls Berichte mit genauen Messdaten im Internet zu finden.
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Ctin –
sehr schnell geliefert und funktioniert sehr gut
L. K. A. –
Top Platte
Alfie Lewington –
I bought this to use as a backup drive for a laptop as it didn’t have a hard drive bay. The speed is excellent, even when connected by a USB 3.0 2.5 inch HDD enclosure!I got a different laptop, which had a failing hard drive – and I used this drive to replace it. The boot speed was much faster and programs opened within 10 seconds!Definitely recommend.
Michael –
Bought to upgrade a 2008 Macbook that was running painfully slowly. It made a huge difference! It’s now running like a 3 year old Mac rather than a 9 year old Mac. 🙂
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N S McVeagh –
Brilliant! Much quicker than a none hybrid HDD
Chris –
Ich habe genau diese Festplatte standardmäßig in meinem Alienware 17 Notebook verbaut.Gegen die Lautstärke gibt es überhaupt nichts einzuwenden. Ich höre sie praktisch überhaupt nicht.Zur Geschwindigkeit kann ich Folgendes sagen:Das Notebook benötigt vom Aufleuchten des Alienware-Logos bis zum Erscheinen des Windows 8.1 Desktops ca. 33 Sekunden!Das entspricht überhaupt nicht der Angabe des Herstellers.Zum Vergleich:Ich habe eine mSata SSD nachgerüstet, das System gespiegelt, und nun braucht das Notebook für die gleiche “Strecke” nur noch ca. 13 Sekunden.Weiterhin habe ich mit dem Windows-eigenen Tool “Winsat” die Schreib-/ und Leseraten beider Festplatten getestet und dabei kam Folgendes raus:Seagate SSHD:Leserate: 89,29 MB/Sek Schreibrate: 75,38 MB/SekmSata SSD:Leserate: 289,92 MB/Sek Schreibrate: 268,86 MB/SekFazit:Die Seagate-Festplatte ist zwar leise und auch das Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis stimmt meiner Meinung nach.Aber der Hersteller wirbt mit völlig falschen Angaben. Es geht in Sachen Geschwindigkeit einfach nichts über eine SSD-Platte.Deshalb vergebe ich 3 anstatt 5 Sterne.Ich werde mir die Seagate-Platte aber nochmal kaufen, da ich ein Raid 0 System aus beiden machen möchte.Wenn es soweit ist, werde ich hier wieder berichten.Nachtrag:Ich habe jetzt ein Raid0-System mit 2 dieser Festplatten und Winsat zeigt folgende Lese-/Schreibraten:Leserate: 161,77 MB/Sek Schreibrate: 192,81 MB/SekSie schreiben nun schneller als sie lesen, das ist schon nicht schlecht.Ich bin sehr zufrieden damit, auch wenn es keine SSD-Platten sind.
Kindle Customer –
I have a 6 yr old MacBook that has been showing its age in slower performance and a small (120 Gb) original HD. I don’t travel as much as I used to, so it doesn’t see as much use. However, a laptop is handy when there is a power outage or other circumstances where my desktop is unavailable. I had considered trading up, but couldn’t justify the cost of a new model for the low usage, and a used (but newer) didn’t provide didn’t pass my cost/benefit criteria. A 500 Gb SSHD for about $55, and a $30 RAM upgrade looked like an economical way to extend my old MacBook’s useful life. Physical installation was quick & easy, though loading the OS via USB took longer than expected. I expected a bump in performance, but underestimated the improvement. Startup time is a fraction of the time it used to take, and general use is improved everywhere by using the SS portion of the drive for the OS and other heavily used apps. Plus I was able to triple my storage and still provide a separate small partition for a built-in backup boot drive.If you have an older computer that isn’t up to par for regular use, but not yet completely obsolete, or you want to pass it on to a child or younger sibling, a hybrid SSHD will give you the biggest bang for your buck. And while it’s open to swap the HD, why not add some inexpensive RAM.
vygantas –
good
弐個壱冠水 –
サンライズという販売元から新品で購入しましたが写真のように開封済み。例えば検品の為開封したなどの理由があるならば一言書き添えるなどすれば良いと思いますがね。
Nabil Amed –
Best Improvement ever! My macbook pro 13″ 2012 had a 500 gb HDD and 8GB RAM It was very slow on start up and opening any app. It normally lasted at least 40 seconds to start up. With this upgrade, it made it start up at just 23 beautiful seconds!!! Can’t be more happy!!!
Steve Kellenberger, D.C. –
I feel better having a new hard drive in my HP 4720s.Before installing the Seagate SSHD, my laptop would randomly shut down and I would have to reboot.I haven’t notices a huge change in performance with the hybrid but all in all I am very satisfied with the SSHD and would not hesitate to recommending people purchase this product.The swap was easy to do with the StarTech USB cable as well.
Ricden –
not good
Bruce Clark –
I do not find the statement that it is an easy laptop updgrade to be true. In theory, SeaGate DiscWizard software should clone the old to the new, However, It is all over the forums that the Seagate DiscWizard software does not clone this drive. It starts up, says it’s cloning, then reboots and returns to the desktop. Most people will end up taking this to a shop, so expect that extra cost.
Robert Kirbo –
Brought new life to my old Dell Laptop – faster start-ups, faster network performance and quiet! I partitioned this drive to first double the C:drive space, then added a D:archive partition for backing up files, programs, data and things that might be necessary to recover my OS install. I also use an external SATA drive for that purpose using a Backup program. This is really a fine value without the high cost of a pure SSD, and because it is a hybrid drive, one gets the benefits of larger storage capacity and fast data performance, too!
hjb –
Habe die neue Festplatte in meinen alten HP Laptop eingebaut hat wunderbar alles gepaßt, hat auch 500GB gegeüber der alten mit 90GB.Kurz um, ich bin begeister, neues Betriebssystem drauf, ich hab einen neuen Laptop. Die Festplatte ist richtig schnell muß mich richtig dranhalten daß man da noch mitkommt. Im Internet ist es genauso , man meint gerade man hat eine schnellere Leitung, aber ist natürlich die gleiche.Kann die SSDH 500GB nur weiterempfehlen..
padlam –
Not sure if I would use this in a portable solution or as my primary drive.The drive performance is horrible if you compare it to a straight SSD but as an HDD, this drive is pretty fast. This drive is great as part of a smart/hybrid RAID solution, or if it is used as “offline” storage. For the price performance, you might be better off going for a cheaper SSD of the same size.
Hans –
Ich habe aus meinem Sapphire VS4 eine Western-Digital-Platte verbannt, nachdem ich erhebliche Schwierigkeiten damit hatte. Die Seagate SSHD ist nun der Ersatz dafür und bin super zufrieden mit dieser Entscheidung. Die Festplatte tut seit 4 Wochen ihre Arbeit, Arch Linux bootet in weniger als 10 Sekunden. Eine Langzeiteinschätzung ist daher nicht möglich, und die Auswirkungen von Multiboot kann ich nicht abschätzen. Als Single-Boot-Festplatte absolut zu empfehlen.Die Festplatte hat das Advanced Format, was bei der Partitionierung zu berücksichtigen ist. Das Tool ‘gdisk’ z.B. erkennt dieses automatisch.
S. Neumond –
Die SSHD hat ihre Vorgänger HDD (auch 500GB) abgelöst. Überzeugt durch schnelle Bootvorgänge und schnelles Öffnen häufig verwendeter Programme und Daten.Ich kann die Festplatte weiterempfehlen, da sie einen guten Kompromiss für den schmalen Geldbeutel bietet. Enthusiasten empfehle ich hier lieber eine “richtige” SSD in Richtung Samsung (deutlich schneller aber auch deutlich teurer).
Antony –
This is a well-made item at a very reasonable price. It was easy to install and made an excellent replacement for the original drive which mal-functioned at just over 2 years old.Very pleased with item
Brendan coleman –
Ther HD has worked. It appears to be a bit slow to load programs, but this is not an issue for the use I make of it.Reused the laptop mounting bracket case in my dell laptop. This device is not supplied with that bracket. It did require that bracket in my case.
Kindle Customer –
The product now resides in this Laptop, working well and proper
mercedesmanne –
Diese SSHD habe ich in ein neues Lenovo Notebook als Ersatz für eine herkömmliche HDD eingebaut und mit W 7 in Betrieb genommen. Das Ergebnis ist schon verblüffend: Die Boot-Zeit ist stark verkürzt, nach einigen Neustarts sogar noch etwas besser geworden. Der Zugriff auf die installierten Anwendungen ebenfalls sehr flott und ohne große Verzögerung. In den Rezessionen zuvor sind die Vorteile schon ausführlich und auch korrekt geschildert worden, dem ist nichts hinzuzufügen. Durch die geringe Bauhöhe passt das Teil auch wirklich ohne Probleme in jedes handelsübliche Notebook, klare Kaufempfehlung.
Chris –
It took me many hours even after consulting computing magazines to be able to transfer or load a new windows file.onto a HP Pavilion laptop.After physically fitting the drive (difficult but helped by You-tube entries) the HP set up checks said drive checked out good. Then when using BIOS and old drive attached to USB port( using adapter) would not load. eventually i succeeded by making a recovery flash drive from another working laptop and installing this onto the Seagate drive.This method will help make life easier for further purchases of this device
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Uwe Rappenecker –
Für das Laptop meiner Tochter, dessen Flaschenhals die Festplatte ist/war, war ein Austausch derselben nötig, um die Geschwindigkeit der anderen Komponeneten nicht künstlich zu verlangsamen.Nach reiflichen Überlegungen zwischen SSD und SSHD fiel die Wahl schlussendlich auf eine SSHD von Seagate. Einerseits wegen des Preises -obwohl auch die Preise für reine SSD in letzter Zeit deutlich gesunken sind- und andererseits der Tatsache wegen, dass es hier hauptsächlich um den Start von Windows und einzelner Programme geht/ging.Praktische Seite:Je nachdem, ob das System neu aufgesezt werden soll oder nicht, beginnen die Vorbereitungen schon vorher. In unserem Fall sollte das komplette System umziehen und nicht neu aufgespielt werden. Dies geschah mit Hilfe des von Seagtate kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellten Programms “DiskWizard”. Auch möglich sind natürlich bereits vorhandene Programme, die ein Klonen der Festplatte zulassen.Der Einbau ging relativ einfach vonstatten. Dies der Tatsache geschuldet, dass beim HP ProBook die Klappe für RAM und HDD mittels der Schieber des Akkus geöffnet werden kann. Nach dem Lösen von 3 Schrauben lässt sich der Rahmen der HDD lösen. Mit weiteren vier Schrauben wird die HDD vom Rahmen gelöst und durch die neue Platte ersetzt. Alles wieder zugeschraubt und Rechner gestartet. Enttäuschung erstmal: Der Start ging nicht schneller. Aber Recherchen im Internet haben dies auch gezeigt.Erst nach mehrmaligem Starten von Windows und der wichtigsten Programme ergab sich eine wesentliche Beschlenigung des Startvorganges und der am häufigsten genutzten Programme. Unter anderem der Start von Adobe Photoshop beschleunigt sich enorm. Die Startzeit des Systems beträgt mittlerweile etwa 30 Sekunden, was gegenüber von bis zu 1,5 Minuten vorher schon beachtlich ist.Die restliche Zeiten, wie das normale Schreiben und Lesen von Daten liegen im Mittelfeld, spielen aber auch keine so grosse Rolle. Mir ging es um den Start des Systems und wichtiger Programme. Und der Erfolg ist eingetreten.Fazit: Um den Start des Systems und der Programme zu beschleunigen ist die Platte eine Kaufempfehlung. Einzig noch zu toppen durch eine reine SSD. Die kostet dann aber auch gleich mehr als dreimal so viel.
Carter –
‘This hard drive has breathed new life into my old laptop! Instead of buying a whole new laptop I cloned my old Western Digital Scorpio hard drive using “Reflect” and installed this into my computer. At first the laptop booted up in about the same amount of time as before but after a few days it seriously boots up in under 1 minute. Power consumption is about the same as the old one as is file transfer and noise (aka none). I highly recommend to anyone wanting to do a simple upgrade to their laptop!
Chris –
L’hardisk si presenta molto leggero è più fine di 2 millimetri circa dei normali hardisk portatili (per quello che sul disco c’è scritto Thin). Se il vostro portatile ha un alloggiamento in metallo dove avvitare il disco fisso, lo avvitate e non c’è nessun problema, se no dovrete riempire lo spazio con un fazzoletto (evitando così che il disco si sposti durante l’uso e si danneggi). La velocità del portatile è migliorata notevolmente, anche perché il mio vecchio disco si stava danneggiando.Es:Avvio di Windows 10 con vecchio disco (meccanico 500 Gb) fino al desktop: ~ 2 minuti circaAvvio di Windows 10 con il nuovo disco ibrido (meccanico 500 Gb e solido 8 Gb) fino al desktop: ~ 20-30 secondi circaAvvio altri programmi in generale: Migliorato del 20-30%
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Joseph Van Buren –
While this is not going to be as fast or capable as an SSD, it is many times better than a standard hard drive. Wish it was 7200 rpm, but I used it as an upgrade to an older computer so it is a vast improvement regardless.
tkl –
Got this drive about 2 weeks now. So far it has cut boot time in half and still perform better than a regular 7200rpm drive.Likes: good performance for the price. Not close to the performance of my Kingston V300 SSD but quick enough on a quad core laptop. Kingston SSD total boot time is around 30 seconds on a quad core i7. This drive’s boot time is about 1:20 seconds — it was about 3 minutes before. Don’t mind waiting for a few extra seconds for a bigger drive space for other needs.Dislikes: drive is never quiet. I can hear it doing something even when I’m not touching my laptop — old drive you cannot hear a thing. In a quiet environment, it’s a bit distracting. Wonder how reliable it is. Seagate drives seem to die on me more often than Western Digitals drives but it’s the only game in town at this point SSHD wise. Western Digital will come out with their own SSHD soon if you can wait and compare. Time will tell but I backup my drive on a regular basis just in case.
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Essey –
Fabulous drive! made a huge difference when we swapped them in a few of our machines. Well worth the money. By the way, we also tried the 1tb versions in a few of our macs which had more internal space. Again huge difference. We have had all of them running for over a year now and no problems at all.Highly recommended.Unfortunately the Acronis based software which Seagate give free with these drives did not work…But no surprise there being Acronis.
Discerning Shopper –
Very quiet, fast hard drive. This replaced a 7200 RPM Hitachi 500 GB hard drive that faltered and failed after 3 years. Very noticeably the Dell laptop cooling fan is not running as often as it used to with the Hitachi drive. I presume the laptop is running cooler because this is a newer “slim” case and because it spins at only 5400 RPM, uses less power. Besides the benefit of SSD hybrid, this new drive also has more memory so has to run less often – perhaps. Whatever, I am happy with this new drive. It has breathed new life into my laptop at came at a very good price.
Techmeister –
I replaced a normal old fashioned 5400RPM drive with this drive (cloned the drive) and after 4 reboots the built in flash was smart enough to reduce the boot time from over 5 minutes to less than 40 seconds. Shut down time is also 10X faster. I am VERY happy with this drive, it was a good price, and it really performs. The 64MB Cache isn’t on most drives (most have less) so that probably adds to the performance boost.
Mark Olive –
I bought this around 2 months ago to replace the conventional Seagate 500 GB (5400 RPM) drive in my Vaio that had been damaged. Unfortunately, I have not seen the performance boost and quicker boot times that others have claimed here, the drive appears to perform more or less identically to the conventional 5400 RPM drive I had previously. My system is not at all exotic, no dual booting just regular Windows 7 x64, so I’m at a loss as to why the drive seems not to have cached the principal OS files in its SSD memory as it should have. Unfortunately, Seagate provides no utilities to see what the drive is caching and no way to keep files in the SSD cache. I’m forced to conclude that a conventional 7200 RPM drive would have been a better purchase in terms of performance.I would add, as another reviewer noted, that Seagate’s method of using Linux-based firmware update discs is a disaster. Only certain SATA controllers are supported by these discs, even mainstream nvidia SATA controllers (nforce 3 and nforce 720a) cannot be used. If you don’t have access to a PC or laptop with a SATA controller that works with these update discs, it will be impossible to update your drive’s firmware (USB adapters are not supported either).It should also be noted that the information here, calling the drive a Momentus XT, is misleading. The Momentus XT is Seagate’s 7200 RPM SSHD, but the drive being sold here is the ST500LM000, namely the “Laptop Thin SSHD” which is a 5400 RPM drive.
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MWP –
Works beautifully and easy to install.
Fiscch4 –
Ich habe dieses Festplatte für einen Laptop gekauft, der nach 3 Jahren etwas langsam geworden ist. (Festplatte 🙁 ) Durch diese SSHD hat sich die Bootzeit drastisch verkürzt und der Laptop ist wieder gut verwendbar. Auch im Betrieb (solange man gleiche Dateien oder gleiche Programme verwendet) ist der Laptop sehr schnell unterwegs. Lediglich bei Dateien die seltener gebraucht werden fällt die Leistung (logischerweise) wieder ab.Aber durchaus verkraftbar. Diese SSHD ist eine schöne Zwischenlösung um schnelle Bootzeiten zu erhalten aber trotzdem viel Speicherplatz für wenig Geld zu bekommen. Die SSHD bringt weniger, wenn man viele Programme benutzt und auch viele Große Dateien. Dann ist eine SSD vorzuziehen.
Kyle –
Great hybrid. Use it. Great product. Works great. Must have. They will last. Remember, you get what you pay for. -Kyle
James P. Malone –
While I didn’t actually purchase this drive I have been a ling time fan of Seagate and have another one of their HYBRID Drives, the 750G 7200 rpm, in one of my laptops and it haw performed superbly for several years now. I wouldn’t expect this drive to do any less. The fact that it is only 5400 rpm, howe3ver, does concern me some and I wouldn’t expect it to have the same throughput.
Jorge Villalobos –
It was a great replacement for my old MacBook Pro, much faster than the one it had. It brought my computer back to life and now it’s as good as new.My only complaint about it is that it can be a little noisy.
KS –
Die Platte arbeitet schnell und ist ein guter Kompromiss zwischen (HDD (Preis/GB)) und SSD (Performance). Leider zeigt sich, das 8GB Flash-Spiecher noch zu wenig sind. Mein Mac startet doppelt so schnell durch, wie mit der alten (schnellen) HDD und oft genutzte Programme starten nach einer Sekunde – aber alles andere liegt dann im HDD-Perfomance-Rahmen.Fazit: sehr gutes Preis/Leistungsverhältnis bei sehr guter HDD-PerformanceSternabzug für den zu geringen Flash-Speicher – doppelt so viel hätte es sein können, damit es den Namen Hybrid verdient.
Matthew Watt –
This is a great drive for a PS3 upgrade. While a PS3 can’t utilize the SATA III feature of increased transfer speeds, there were noticeable performance increases in terms of load times. While researching 7200RPM vs 5400 RPM vs SSD I decided this drive seemed to be the best balance of performance and cost. 5400 RPMs keep things quiet and cool in a system notorious for having weak cooling while pushing the performance limits of newer games. The SSD portion decreases latency of getting the data you most often use. This decreases the amount of time the platter actually has to spin to access data from the drive. So even though this is a 5400 RPM drive, which typically would incur the worst read/write performance of any drive, the SSD portion acts as a large capacity, high speed cache without the price negative of a equivalent size capacity SSD. The 500GB capacity is a great improvement over the OEM size, which for me was 80GB. After 2 months of use I’ve not had any issues with the drive and notice improved load times in many games, streaming apps, and Blu-Ray use.
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Kindle Customer –
Having got bogged down formatting this hard drive (i didn’t have an image file to work from and my previous hard drive had packed in), i needed professional help to get going, but this hard drive is good. For what i uae my laptop for it’s been very quick. I guess in my case the os is on the ssd part and boot-up times have improved dramatically (although following a clean install i have probably lost a lot of bloatware…).I had been disappointed initially as the drive didn’t come boxed…
Vielshopper –
wie immer schnell geliefert. Die Verpackung ist recht einfach gehalten und auch sonst gibt es keine Anleitung. Deshalb nur 4 Sterne.Keine Softwarelizenz zum klonen der Festplatte enthalten, auch bei Seagate auf der Homepage gibt es da nichts.Ansonsten habe ich die SSHD problemlos in das alte Dell 620 Notebook eingebaut mit Clonezilla geklont und alles läuft wie erwartet schneller. Natürlich nicht so schnell wie mit einer reinen SSD aber das habe ich auch nicht erwartet, dazu gibt es genügend Speedtests im Netz, deshalb spare ich mir das hier.Über die Langlebigkeit kann ich keine Aussage treffen.
Sudbrack –
Schnelle Platte. Günstiger Preis, 8 GB Flashspeicher und 500 GB HDD sind eine gute Kombination. Windows startet jetzt nach einer Clean-Installation von Windows 10 unheimlich schnell. Mal sehen wie es sich verhält, wenn alle meine Anwendungen wieder installiert sind.
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Razornoodle –
I’ve been using it for more than a month & 1/2 and I am impressed with the speed of this drive. Very snappy and it would be hard to tell the difference between this SSHD and a quality SSD without software statistics. I have an ADATA SSD as my primary. This drive is my #2 drive and for games and software. I have a 3.5″, 1TB Barracuda for backups. I figure if this drive last’s a year, I’ll upgrade it to 5 star’s. I do have a 60mm CPU cooling fan blowing on it so if heat is a concern, I can’t test that. This is a laptop hard drive but works great in a desktop due to less space requirements. All PC’s I build new from here on will have 2.5″ drives of whatever type. By the way.
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Ken –
Fantastic drive! My 4-year-old ultrabook now works better than it did the day I got it thanks to this charm!
Sergio Escalante –
Muy bueno, llego mucho antes de lo esperado, muy bueno
olivier –
disque non reconnu sur mon ordi , peut être une incompétence de ma part mais je doute.
Martyn –
Easy to install works brilliantly speeds up my pc 10x faster then it was haha no time to put the kettle on now lol
Ph0b1a –
So in this year I probably gotten around 12 of these harddrives, 11 of them have been working good, 1 of them developed back sectors and gave the client who I installed this on a headache who in return gave me a headache.Besides that one harddrive they work pretty well and do provide a nice speed improvement vs 7200rpm harddrive. price is also nice
fishsoft –
Zu dieser Festplatte gibt es eigentlich nicht viel zu sagen. Einiges mache ich aber trotzdem, auch wenn es schon viele vor mir getan haben.Diese Festplatte sitzt bei mir in einem 3,5 Zoll Wechselrahmen (ICY DOCK MB882SP-1S-1B), den ich auf der Unterseite mit einigen 12mm großen Lüftungslöchern versehen habe. Unter dem Wechselrahmen sitzt ein Festplattenlüfter von Scythe, den ich im Rechnerbios auf 50% gedrosselt habe. Das Betriebssystem Windows 10-64 Insider-Preview ist auf dieser Festplatte installiert.1. Positives.Die Festplatte ist eigentlich gar nicht zu hören, lediglich beim Rechnerstart das Anlaufgeräusch. Sie nimmt wenig Strom auf und wird bei mir auch nicht sehr warm (max. 34 Grad). Das kommt aber sicherlich durch den verbauten Lüfter. Die Festplatte ist auch ausreichend schnell, kommt aber an meine SSD logischerweise nicht heran. Selbst meine internen 3,5 Festplatten sind da schon schneller. Macht mir aber nichts.2. Negatives.Der Rechnerstart wird tatsächlich beschleunigt, zumindest nach dem der Rechner einige Male gestartet ist. Was mich aber wirklich sehr stört, ist die Tatsache das, wenn ich die Festplatte aus dem Rechner nehme, weil ich gerade eine anderes Betriebssystem benötige und setze sie dann wieder ein, der Lernprozess wieder von vorne anfängt. Scheint so, als wenn die Platte ständig unter Strom stehen muss um die Daten im internen Flash-Speicher zu halten. Ich habe aber nirgendwo Informationen dazu gefunden, ob es ein Fehler meiner Platte ist, oder ob es normal ist.Bis auf diesen Kritikpunkt bin ich mit dem Laufwerk zufrieden.
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L G. –
Nothing to dislike. Installed it into my PC and now using it to back up my 120GB SSD C drive. No problems and really pleased with the speed of transfer. Well packaged and delivered when seller advised
PeterG –
Die Ware wurde wie immer schnell und gut verpackt geliefert. Es war ein Warehouse Deal (Zustand: Gebraucht – wie neu), aber das kann auch unüberwindliche Hindernisse mit sich bringen. Die Festplatte wurde von mir als USB-Festplatte angeschlossen, um dann mit Acronis ein Klone zu erstellen. Hierzu bootet Acronis neu und erzeugt dann bei inaktiver Partition eine Kopie der alten Festplatte. Acronis meldete dann leider das kein Zugriff auf Sektor 0 möglich sei. Nach Neustart habe ich dann versucht die Festplatte über die Datenträgerverwaltung von Windows 8.1 zu initialisieren. Hier gab es dann die Meldung CRC – Fehler. Abschließend habe ich dann die Seagate ST500LM000 in mein Notebook eingebaut und während der Bootphase wurde dann ein Festplattenpasswort abgefragt. Im Bios konnte man es dann ebenfalls sehen. Da das Passwort nicht bekannt ist und auch kein Masterpasswort akzeptiert wurde, mußte ich die Festplatte wieder einpacken und zurücksenden.Nachtrag:Mittlerweile habe ich eine neue Festplatte bestellt und erhalten. Meine Daten konnten mit Acronis True Image 2014 problemlos kopiert werden. Die Seagate SSHD läuft schneller als die alte Notebookplatte und erfüllt ihre Aufgabe zufriedenstellend, aber ein Ersatz für eine SSD ist sie nicht. Ich kann die Platte bis jetzt weiterempfehlen. Sie löst meine Performanceprobleme beim “Aufwachen” aus dem Ruhezustand.
Sebastian Pizarro –
I needed a HDD for extending my PS3 storage capacity. This worked perfectly and arrived on time.
Carl Hefford –
I received the item ahead of schedule. I am very happy with this hard drive. It got me out of trouble with with me being able to transfer dat from my old drive.Thanks
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Lezmar63 –
I set up a recovery drive to usb, then swapped out my old drive, and within an hour or so, was up, running, and more or less back to normal.My laptop now boots up in less than a minute, (It was more 2 mins before), and it seems to be less strain on the hardware, as the fan doesn’t ramp up as often as before, so overall I’m am so far, happy with it.
Pedro Lopes –
It makes a little bit of clicking noise, as most Seagate HDDs do, but it’s a good disk and adds a little more speed to an old and tired laptop. It’s not even close to a real SSD, tough, but when I bought it in 2013, 500GB SSDs were extremely expensive.
Vinyldroid –
My hard drive packed in on my (typically, just out of warranty) Acer aspire laptop so instead of buying a new laptop i thought no…that’s what they want you to do try repairing the old one, so after a chat with an IT colleague, he pointed me in this direction so I bought it……… Then after watching various you tube vids I fitted it myself (not hard at all) downloaded windows 7 etc for free (dont pay for back up disc off the manufacturer there’s no need as Microsoft directs you to servers that will let you download it with instructions etc you just need to have your licence key for after the install that should be on your computer somewhere, then get your specific drivers etc from the manufacturers website again for free for the specific hardware you have) and OMG I was back in business.I run the computer for music production ie Fruity Studio and Serato and also for Photography so Photoshop etc. Granted… I do NOT use this for the internet (learned my lesson years ago) i have loads of other devices that do that (phone and tablet etc) so in doing so I have no antivirus on it (no need as long as you know you can trust the stuff your putting on it, which should be the case anyway) and it is set up for performance not visual, but that’s what my last one was like…. but this hard drive is lightning fast compared to the stock one. I mean it takes about 5 seconds to boot, so that’s from switching on until its usable and the processors are free. and less to power down. I’ve only seen that on a mac-book before now.All for 50 odd pound and a bit of research……… Well worth it in my world.
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Jeffrey McCauley –
Easy install, incredibly fast drive on Windows 10. Revitalized older laptop with fresh load of Windows 10 and numerous software packages. Boot time is 15 seconds or less. Runs quiet, fast, and seems to have improved battery time.
Fifi –
Permet d’avoir un disque rapide tout en ayant une bonne capacité de stockage, le tout pour un prix raisonnablePlus besoin de choisir entre SSD de faible capacité (ou très cher) et disque dur
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Samuel –
ho acquistato questo sshd per metterlo nel optibay del mio Macbook Pro. Se lo si usa come memoria va come qualsiasi altro hard disk, non si nota alcuna differenza di velocità!!Io invece lo ho usato per spostarci la mia partizione BOOTCAMP con Windows e mi ha dato grossissimi problemi di compatibilità, rendendo impossibile l’utilizzo. Ho risolto il problema montando un semplicissimo Hd Seagate da 7200rpm con alle spalle 4 anni e ho dato questo hard disk ad un’amico che lo usa come storage.Come vantaggi ha la estrema sottilezza e la bassa rumorosità.Se cercate alte velocità di trasmissione, gli SSD sono totalmente un’altra storia!! Parlo di esperienza (Samsung SSD 840 Pro)!!
Roque Cab Díaz –
un disco hibrido es la mejor opción porque combina la rapidez de un disco solido a un precio de un disco normal…
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fireball –
Upgraded a laptop with this disk but didn’t get as much improvement as I’d hoped for – but it was much cheaper than the version with the larger cache,
Chris Smith –
I purchased this item to repair a clients laptop. Usually in desktop PC builds I’d use a proper SSD and have a secondary HDD for storage. In laptops this dual drive configuration also works if you convert the DVD drive bay to fit your secondary HDD.I thought however in this case to try the SSHD as it was cheaper and the client wanted to keep the DVD drive as is.The drive installation was as you’d expect, very simple, like any other drive replacement. No drivers or special software required.In normal operation however I cannot see how this drive is any faster than a standard HDD, it’s certainly nowhere near SSD performance. I wish I’d had longer to run speed tests on the drive but client needed it back quickly. I’m not sure if the drive gets quicker over time as it allocates frequently used files to the solid state part of the drive or what but as I only had it for a couple of days to install Windows and restore files etc, I can safely say I was not impressed.Overall; not a bad drive for the money but I would not recommend this drive if you are after SSD like performance.
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Adz5765 –
I have two of these drives and they are faultless.My first drive is as an expansion drive for my Xbox one which works floorless and loads game much faster, don’t get me wrong it’s not in SSD territory however if you are looking for a cheap drive with good speeds and decent capacity then this is a great drive.My other drive is used in my computer which again works brilliantly.
Logan O –
The read/write speeds are really good! if you need a larger storage but don’t have the budget for a solid state, these work great! I’ve used them in Several Computer builds and they are perfect!
SusanFlack –
Received quickly and working well so far
K.L. Franklin –
Installed this in my Playstation 3, which seems to benefit from the flash cache more than my computers would. If you have less than 8GB of RAM in your computer, you’ll benefit a lot from this drive. Not as much as you’d benefit from buying more RAM and a dedicated SSD, but if you’re shopping for one of these you’re clearly budget constrained. It isn’t the wrong place to put your money if you need 500GB of Somewhat Faster Than Usual Drives without dropping a lot of cash.
John –
The 500GB it states is only 320 on the drives disk space, I don’t have a partition and funny enough I had thought it was only a 320 till I looked and it has 500GB written on it so beware purchasing this item and check it as soon as you get it because I now need to look for another drive that actually is a 500GB drive because I’ve only 100GB of space left
CompiRatte –
… meinen alten Acer Aspire 7745G! Deutlicher Geschwindigkeitszuwachs im Vergleich zu der originalen Festplatte. Sehr zufrieden – werd’ wahrscheinlich noch ‘ne zweite kaufen. 8>)
Santa –
I loaded GTA V on my PS3 and it bogged my stock HDD. This was an easy upgrade and well worth the $$. Startup is about 2X faster that normal and game loads are much quicker too. This is a direct replacement, just screws in to the HDD mount and plug it into the system. Would buy this again!
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Magnusen –
I’m a huge fan of Seagate – been buying disks from them since the mid-90’s. I didn’t think twice about buying this one. I bought 2 other SSHD’s from them in recent months and have no issues there. Performance is great compared to classic HDD, and this price is way less than true SSD. I love the hybrid solution here. However, this one ended up in a refurbished laptop for my son as a Christmas gift. He brought it to me a week ago (March 16) and now the BIOS won’t recognize it as a boot disk. No drop, no shock, no water spill, just stopped. Didn’t make it 4 months, and was just outside the return policy window. Honestly, I can’t complain too much because the price is so low and I took my chances. I just happened to lose this time.
jprodr19 –
My 6 year old Dell M1210 XPS Laptop windows experience performance rating on the HDD went up from 4.6 to 5.9 with noticeably faster boots, faster shutdowns, and in particular with a tremendous improvement in the performance of Microsoft Outlook. I was just looking for more storage room since my original 120GB hard drive was nearly full. I not only quadrupled my storage room, but I got the unexpected bonus of much faster overall system performance. A Highly recommended upgrade. I just wish I had done it a couple years ago!
Manuel –
Es ist eine Festplatte ;)Bin eigentlich ganz zufrieden. Allerdings bemerkte ich nur einen minimalen Geschwindigkeitsunterschied.Und dies auch nur beim Bootvorgang.Aber hatte auch keine Wunder erwartet ;)Vielleicht kommt bald ne SSD rein, und dann sollte sich die Geschwindigkeit nochmals erheblich ändern!
Nils B –
Nach fast viereinhalb Jahren hat die Festplatte meines Laptops (WD Blue 640 GB) den Geist aufgegeben, also musste ich mich nach einem Ersatz umschauen. Nach reichlichem Abwägen habe ich mich gegen eine “normale” 750 GB HDD entschieden und lieber noch 10€ drauf gelegt und etwas Speicherplatz geopfert und ich muss sagen: das hat sich absolut gelohnt! Vor allem beim Hochfahren (unter Windows 8.1) und bei Ladezeiten in Spielen merkt man einen sehr deutlichen Geschwindigkeitsvorteil. Ich bin restlos begeistert. Der einzige Wermutstropfen (falls man denn unbedingt einen finden muss) ist, dass man die Festplatte in sehr leiser Umgebung manchmal leise arbeiten hört, was bei der vorher verbauten nicht der Fall war. Ist aber kaum merklich und deswegen von mir eine klare Kaufempfehlung zu dieser Festplatte!
HonestP –
This hard drive completely transformed my laptop. It’s super fast, quiet and of course, spacious. I use external drives but you always need a good internal and this is exactly that.
Giuseppe Raimo –
my laptop its running up like new modern devicethanks
Kevin Warrington –
I’m a great fan of Seagate discs having been a data storage “expert” for most of my working career. This was bought to replace another 500Gb disc of another brand that was throwing up random read / write errors after about a year’s use.I had not noticed that this was a hybrid drive, so it is even better value for money than I thought. I suppose the only consideration is not to have a power fail while writing data as there is a risk of it being cached and not written to the magnetic media, but the system it is used in is rarely switched off and relies on Windows power management.So far, it has worked well. Basically, you can’t really go wrong when buying from one of the “big” names – and now there doesn’t even seem to be a price premium
J. –
This hybrid drive replace a failed drive within my laptop. It was an excellent replacement decreasing the amount of time it took to boot my laptop by several seconds. The write speeds were as expected and works flawlessly. I would recommend this drive to anyone who wants the speed of a hardrive, and longevity of a solid state drive.
Miguel Arcilla –
Perfect! Had some issue installing it on my laptop but once it’s done, it works fine. I’m able to install a lot of my Steam games on it without sacrificing my laptop’s SSD storage. There was no overheating, no weird sounds from it, etc. Works smooth as butter but it slowed down my boot up time to 2-3 more seconds which is to be expected since it is a hard drive even with 8Gb SSD in it
Martin Langhoff –
I was considering retiring my Lenovo X220 workhorse. Instead, with a very modest expense now it feels like a brand new laptop. CPUs haven’t gotten much faster, so this is indeed a great strategic investment :-)The drive itself is working fantastically well. With a bit of tweaking, Linux Fedora 20 is booting in 6 to 7 seconds, and using BTRFS without a problem. Clearly the FTL/caching tool is filesystem-agnostic.So it boots about 10x faster than before. The improvement is just when the operations involve the disk naturally, but the subjective feel is of a much faster machine.
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revodsm –
Lasted 2 years in my lightly used Alienware laptop. No longer being recognized as a drive in bios or windows recovery disc.
georgie –
Works well as a replacement and is faster than the original drive in our HP.
Rachel Blundell –
Got this to replace a broken xbox one hard drive – great replacement!
David Schiffelbein –
Great Item, easy install . Visit the Seagate website download the DiscWizard software makes the install much easier,highly recommended.Had this item for over 30 days in a Lenovo laptop. It runs much cooler and applications run faster. Dontusually write reviews but wanted people to know what a great hard drive this is. Thank you.
musss –
Ich habe noch keine SSHD und war etwas NeugierigDa ich in meinem Laptop eine WD mit 7200 U/min habe war ich der Versuchung erlegen mal die Seagate zu probierenAlso 450% soll sie Anwendungen schneller starten?Meine SSD Startet schneller aber bitte diese nicht mit der SSHD vergleichenFür einen Laptop ist die Platte wirklich ihren Preis wert64MB Cachespeicher ist wirklich klasse 8GB Flashspeicher ebenfallsNur 450% schneller also 200% ja da kommt auch meine WD mit 7200 U/min. nicht ganz ranAuf beiden habe ich Windows 7 64bit Beim Start ist klar die WD ist schneller Einsatz bereitProgramme: Word, Excel, Photoshop Na ja einige Millisekunden Schneller als die WDAlso diese Festplatte auch nur in einer Dockingstation musste ich erst mal genauer hinhören so Leise ist die Platte.Für Laptop ist die Platte auch wenn sie etwas Teuer erscheint schon Ihr Geld wert.Den wenn man mit dem Laptop unter Wegs ist beim Kunden macht es schon einen Unterschied wie schnell man was aufrufen kann.SSD ist zwar noch schneller aber noch nicht erschwinglich deswegen Seagate SSHD eine gute aber nicht mit der SSD zu vergleichende Günstigere Alternative.Nur eine SSD macht der Seagate noch was vor in punkte leise und Geschwindigkeit.Leider kann man noch nicht in alle Laptops zwei Festplatten eine bauen da Schlafen leider die Hersteller.
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Jared M. Beverley –
Working great! My computer saves and transfers files much faster now. Boots up faster as well.
Eric R –
I would give Seagate 5 stars if the ability to clone disks using DiscWizard would work with Windows 8.1. If you want to clone a drive using DiscWizard, read on. If not, buy this drive because Seagate drives are rock solid. This drive has a 3 yr warranty (Seagate used to offer 5 yr warranties on their drives). I bought this drive as an emergency backup to my daughter’s new laptop. In the past, I would clone drives in case a laptop drive died or the laptop was stolen. That allows me to remove the defective drive, insert the clone drive into the laptop and recover any “changed” data via the cloud from my daily backups. With a clone drive, there is no need to reinstall apps. The Seagate cloning software I’ve always used, DiscWizard, is downloadable from Seagate. Developed by Acronis Software and OEM’d by Seagate, it usually works well with Windows 7. Cloning Windows 8.1 is another story as DiscWizard spits out Runtime Exception error messages. Had great support from Seagate (kudos to Yasine from Seagate support in Oklahoma) and the best Seagate could do was to backup my drive, not clone it. After scouring the web, I found free Windows 8.1 cloning software called “Macruim Reflect”. Watched a YouTube video to verify it works. It does and I’m happy.
Anthony Roger Garrison –
Great replacement for a Lenovo laptop disk that was full
Craig Collins –
Fitted this to a PS4 slim with a failed hard drive, it now boots super fast and I have a really happy son!
Frank Fiedler –
ich tauschte die Festplatte, um Datenverlust vorzubeugen. Die alte lief mit 7200 U/min. Die neue mit 5400. Durch den Hybridmodus ist die neue Platte mindestens genau so schnell. Das System startet merklich schneller. Auch der Ruhemodus wird schneller erreicht. Der größte Vorteil ist die Laufruhe. Das tut gut. Auch der Akku hält länger. Ich habe keinen Vergleich zu anderen Hybridplatten, aber gegenüber einer traditionellen Festplatte ist diese zu empfehlen.
stew111213 –
Ich wollte mit der Platte meinen Dual Core Laptop auffrischen, fand aber den Preis für eine SSD deutlich zu hoch, zumal ich mir nicht sicher war, wieviel die neue “Platte” bringen würde.Ich finde, die Seagate ist in jedem Fall eine Alternative. Meinem Laptop hat sie jedenfalls wieder deutlich auf die Sprünge geholfen.Wunder sind je nach Prozessorleistung/Arbeitsspeicher nicht zu erwarten, aber für den Preis ist die Seagate einen Versuch wert.
Jorge Mendoza Salazar –
I bought this peace of hardware to improve the performance of my Old (2011) Macbook pro. I just replaced the disk and used the mac recovery tool added the time machine disk and it toke like 7 hours to restore the full backup. Once it was finish my old mac book pro works awesomely fast! it is responding faster than a 2013 MBA. If you’re thinking about buying this disk, i’d totally recommend you to do so!
Didier Juges –
This is a good hard drive. It is a worthwhile improvement over the conventional 300GB 5400 rpm hard drive I had previously on this laptop (an aging Dell D620). It is definitely faster. I do have a second D620 with a true 300GB SSD and the true SSD is quite a bit faster than this (and perfectly quiet), but for the price, this hard drive is worth it.The operation of the SSD partition is totally transparent. I installed Windows 7 on it without a hitch, and then I converter to Windows 10 just before the deadline for the free upgrade and that also went very well. It has been about 2 months now and all is good.
vm –
xbox one great startup speed
I. Haynes –
This proved to be an easy upgrade to my old Sony laptop. I cloned the original disc and the speed difference is significant.
Laura –
Over a month ago my laptop’s hard drive crashed and I was doubting between replacing the hard drive and buying a new laptop. The latter option being at least 900€ more expensive , I decided to buy this hard drive.I an no computer expert, and I don’t like to open my Mac book (late 2008) but I was surprised on how easy it was to install (read any tutorial online, and make sure to have the right screw drivers) and it has been working fine since then (almost two months now). So five stars for now hoping I will be thinking the same in a couple of years.
Jon –
Bought this to bring new life into an older Dell ( n5030 ). I had considered getting just a standard 7,200 rpm laptop hard drive to give the system a quick boost but noticed this wasn’t that much more.All in all the performance seems to have been nicely boosted over the old 5,400 rpm WD blue drive at this point (from power button to all start programs loaded is less than 50 seconds), but perhaps it will speedup as it starts caching to the solid state portion more.My only regret is that this is only a 5,400 rpm hybrid and not a 7,200 rpm hybrid, but for a budget upgrade on older equipment this drive should give a higher performance over the long run and have lower power usage when compared to standard drives.Though if you have the money I would still highly recommend a real solid state drive over a hybrid.
ロンちゃん –
通常の業務作業では問題なく使えています。耐久性やゲーム仕様に関しては不明
nicolae sandu –
Good brand of HDD that always does what it says on the tin . Happy with the price
Jan Wichtmann –
Die Platte funktioniert zügig und gut.Der Flash Speicher ist aber für den normalen Gebrauch eines versierten Users ein Wenig zu klein.Die Platte funktioniert in der PS3 Problemlos.Die Spiele, die man immer spielt, werden schnell geladen.Die Box startet auch sehr zügig.Im PC bringt sie nach kurzer Zeit eine Verkürzung des Bootvorgangs (Win 7 / Linux)Das Arbeiten mit den Standard-Programmen läuft dann auch recht zügig.Nach einen Programmupdate muß er aber erst die neuen Daten “Lernen”Der konventioenne Teil der Platte funktioniert aber auch recht ordentlich.
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crane shoes –
Excellent value. Replaced the HD in my Macbook 2010 15”. Took 15 mins using online video. Good as new.
Robert Brun –
Works just like any other.
geo –
So far, so good! It will take much longer to know how reliable this drive is.
Stave –
Very good for the price; installed first time and runs just as it should.
Will –
I ran out of storage space in my laptop so I purchased SSHD drive. My computer now runs faster and better than it ever did. I have enough storage to run my Adobe programs without effort. This drive alleviated unneeded stress. I’ve only had it a couple of weeks so I will update later on longevity.
popo –
My old hdd had a bad boot sector. I bought this to replace my original hdd (5400 rpm 8mb cache 500 Gb).It’s so much faster than my old one!My computer now starts up in 10~15 seconds!The performance difference is extremely noticeable! It so much better!The battery life is about the same.I have owned 7200 rpm hardrives for desktops with 64 mb caches. I would say that this hdd is faster.Install applications takes only a few seconds.
Rab Kay –
Bought to upgrade a laptop. Ace.
SANDANA Francisque –
Remplace efficacement mon ancien disque dur system ; silencieux
JimC –
The drive worked great in my Toshiba laptop, upgraded from a 320Gb to 500gb.Unfortunately I have not noticed any improvement in booting speeds or operating speeds, but I’m very happy with the upgrade in storage space.
Skywalker –
According to the reviews, the solid state part of this drive is supposed to learn the boot-up sequence and speed up boot up. That has not been my experience using this drive for several months now, and if anything one could grow old waiting for this thing to boot up. Even shutting down seems to take unusually long. As for the rotating disk part, it seems to work fine, and while I would not say it is any faster than an ordinary hard drive, it does the job and so far has been reliable. it is also very quiet. I just don’t understand why the solid state part is such a slouch. Given the price, comparable to a regular drive, I don’t see any reason not to get it, and maybe others will have better luck with the boot up sequence speed than I have had.
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Stu –
I bought this as was finding Windows was taking an age to start, and I heard this was the exact area should improve. The original drive was also a Seagate 500GB but with a 7200RPM spin speed.I’m sure it was specified but this was thinner than the original drive, but worth checking, fitted fine in the DellI cloned the original no problem to the new drive.I installed the latest firmware from the Seagate site.I had some strange problems, I thought might have to reactivate Windows, but this didn’t seem to be the case, but Windows update stopped working, and Internet Explorer would not no longer allow downloads, I would get the popup to save, but then nothing. Very strange. Found some articles on the web, but the one that worked for me was to update the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver.Now seems to be working OK, but performance wise, seems no quicker, shutting down seems slightly quicker, but other things seem slower. Overall very disappointed, not worth the hassle.
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Kindle Customer –
I just cloned my laptop hard drive to this drive and all I can say is WOW. I didn’t know how much faster this would be over a standard drive; everything loads up so much faster. I have an SSD in my desktop and love the speed of it but I needed more capacity because of only having the ability to install one drive in my laptop. This drive gives me near SSD speeds and lots of capacity, without the large price of a comparable SSD.
Unreal-Bender –
Nach diversen ausfällem von SSD’s habe ich mich jetzt für ein Hybrid Model entschieden. Die billigen SSD’s sind bei mir alle < als 2 Jahre ausgefallen mit kompletten Datenverlust. Bis jetzt läuft sie soweit ganz ganz gut. Windows 10 startet auch ganz schnell (uefi). Tja mal schauen falls die Platte auch ausfällt werde ich vom guten Glauben beim Thema Festplatten abkommen … Selbst meine alte 486 Festplatte von 1992 läuft immer noch zuverlässig im Gegensatz zu dem heutigen Billig Schrott…
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Georg –
Um einem alten HP HDX 16 mit defekter Festplatte nochmal eine Chance zu geben habe ich überlegt was wohl am besten für das alte Ding wäre.Aufgrund der hohen Preise von SSD’s bin ich dann bei dieser Platte gelandet.Versand wie immer sehr schnell (2 Tage), ausgepackt, eingebaut, Windows 8 aufgesetzt.Und plötzlich läuft der fast 7 Jahre alte Laptop wie eine Rakete!!!Windows startet in unter 10 Sekunden, alles öffnet schnell und flüssig!Empfehle diese Plattenserie für jeden der nicht auf hohe Kapazitäten verzichten möchte, ohne dabei viel Geld blechen zu müssen.Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass diese Serie auch für Desktop-PC’s sehr schnell läuft, wenn sie jetzt bei meinem Laptop schon so gut geht.
Rarcell –
good price, seems a bit slower than the exact model it replaced, but is working well
Michele P. –
Partendo dalla confezione, viene fornito in una confezione anonima con pellicola antistatica. Le prestazioni sono di circa 20mbis in piu, quindi nulla di particolare. la nand da 8 giga quindi risulta molto più lenta del solito. avrei preferito a questo punto di poter scegliere di avere 2 partizioni. Tenendo conto di ciò , il prezzo è molto conveniente e risulta molto silenzioso, altro vantaggio è che consuma 2.5/2.7 Watt. Cosa davvero buona selo vorrete usare con usb o con i portatili. Aspetterò qualche mese per vedere se i risultati migliorano .*******************EditPurtroppo dopo una decina di giorni la velocità media era intorno ai 70/80 mb. In poche parole , avrei fatto prima a prendere un classico hdd. Davvero lento e dubito esista davvero una memoria rigida all’ interno.
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Carmen C –
Buen disco
Ming Paul Wang –
It’s a bit expensive when I bought it because for the same price one can get 1TB version now. But it does everything it is supposed to do, and it is much quieter than the spinning disk HD.
Carlos Manuel Hernández Montiel –
Muy buen rendimiento, mejoró increíble, no tanto como uno de estado sólido pero económicamente genial, ampliamente recomendable para todos los usuarios.
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Muzza567 –
Took longer than expected to arrive! Easy to install, Took ablout 10 minutes. This Hybrid Drive is slimmer than the Toshiba Drive which was installed. I had to partition it before installing Windows 10 Professional, This was installed from a USB stick. Took me about 3 minutes how to perform the Partition, But quite straightforward. Had Windows 10 installed in about 30 minutes. You don’t hear this drive in operation, Also it’s faster to access the data due to it being partly SSD.Good quality Drive! Hopefully it will give many years of use. 5 Stars!
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Maxim Nisenbaum –
Fast shipping, good product, works so far
Sound –
Hallo.Ich habe die SSHD in ein Asus Laptop mit i3 Prozessor und Sata3 Anschluss eingebaut.Voher habe ich eine normale HDD probiert (also ohne 8GB SSD,Flashspeicher), ebenfalls 500GB groß.Diese brauchte nach der Installation von Windows 8.1 Pro. im Durchschnitt 45 bis 50 Sekunden bis Windows erscheint.Nun habe ich diese SSHD hier verbaut und siehe da, die Bootzeit benötigt gerade mal 16 Sekunden bis Windows vollständig erscheint (natürlich ebenfalls bei einer Neuinstallation von Windows).Auch sämtliche Programme starten deutlich schneller. Eine reine SSD-Platte wäre zwar noch ein kleinen Tick schneller, aber da sich der Geschwindigkeitsvorteil nur im minimale Bereich der SSHD gegenüber einer SSD verhält, kann man sich das Geld sparen was eine SSD mehr kostet.Also, sehr zu empfehlen.
Matthew DiMasi –
My old hard drive died a few months ago, I went to see if could be fixed, and I left the caddy at the repair place where it got lost because it really was dead.After a little while, I decided to get a new one, and this one was awesome, but I was screwed cuz laptops make caddies, not hard drives :/I ended up getting an extra caddy, bending stuff of so it stays in place and taking it down so it stays even better, but still there are a few quirky parts, so still not perfect.I guess the lesson is if you replace the hard drive, then HOLD ONTO THE CADDY!
DANILO –
Todo bien hasta los momentos con este disco duro
Gopal –
extraordinary! super fast delivery
Emir Onuk –
Produkt entspricht meinen Anforderungen.
Manfred Thieleke –
Der Einbau dieser Festplatte und die anschließende Neuinstallation von Win10 erfolgte problemlos. Notebook läuft seither wieder perfekt.
Andrew Watson –
Installed this disk in my 2008-vintage Macbook Pro 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo (Model No: A1226), replacing the original 120GB drive. The reduced boot times are an eye-opener – down from about 3 minutes (running MacOS 10.5.8) to under one minute after 6 reboots. The machine feels faster for day-to-day use too – applications like MS Word definitely start up faster (although I haven’t timed this).Method: Install the drive in an external caddy, do a fresh OS install on it. Boot from the “new” OS on the external disk, (yes, I know 10.5.8 is ancient, but I have applications that won’t run under any later MacOS version) and apply all the most recent OS patches. Still running from the external disk, use Migration assistant to copy user files and applications across to the new drive. Once happy that everything works, open up the machine to swap drives.Instructions for opening the Macbook are at iFxiit here:[…]The only really nerve-wracking bit is popping the five plastic catches at the front of the case. Watch this video from about 4′ 30″ to see the method I used:[…]For my “black stick” I used a screwdriver with insulating tape wrapped round the blade.Final note – once you’ve swapped the disk, Time Machine will try to backup the whole machine from scratch, even though almost all the data is unchanged. This “Mac OSX Hints” item shows how to reconnect the new drive with your old backups. So far it seems to work for me:[…]
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Frank S. –
Geliefert wird die Platte(gebraucht) ohne Umverpackung nur eingeschweisst in entsprechender Folienverpackung was Müll spart. Die vorhandenden Daten wurden sauber gelöscht und neu formatiert, die Platte arbeitet im 15Jahre alten Laptop sauber und zuverlässig. P/L Verhältnis stimmt auch.Gerne wieder
Rick –
Good upgrade to my early 2001 Macbook Pro. Boot up is definitely faster as well as opening programs. Does seem to stall quite a bit when opening files but it could be that I have too much stuff saved.
pam –
arrived promptly, working well since installation.
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Ti No –
Ich habe diese Platte gewählt, da ich einen schnelleren Nachfolger für meine abgerauchte Originale brauchte. Sie sollte auf der einen Seite günstig und über nicht allzu wenig Volumen verfügen und auf der anderen Seite schnell sein. Ich muss dazu sagen, dass ich einen Acer Aspire 7750g besitze und der nun auch schon ein paar Jahre alt ist. Doch was da nachdem Umbau auf mich zukam, war jenseits meiner erhofften Ziele. Ich habe mir den Spaß erlaubt und die Passwortabfrage für mein Konto ausgeschalten und den Laptop ausgeschaltet. Der komplette Startvorgang –> vom Einschalten bis zu arbeiten können <– lag bei 11 Sekunden. Das installierte Betriebssystem ist Win 8.1. Die Transferzeiten sind ebenso top, wenn es ums kopiere geht. Ich kann nur sagen “ich würde diese Platte jederzeit wieder kaufen”….!!!
Junry –
If you are looking to replace a hard drive in a laptop or possibly put some life into an older machine and speed it up a bit. Then this is your ticket.The Hybrid hard drive technology will work wonders for old machines and it does it on a budget.
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Mr. A. Lancaster –
Easy. To install well worth it.
T. Connolly –
Replacement for a failing drive. My laptop is 5 years old so it’s time is coming but I needed to squeeze a little more time out of it. This drive was very affordable and is noticeably faster on boot up and starting applications and the light work I do. Cheap, easy, and reliable. Perfect for me.
Wesley –
I replaced the broken 500GB hard disc in the Toshiba Satellite A665 and it runs great. I have really enjoyed serious improvement in performance with Seagate’s 2TB SSHD in one of my desktop PCs so I decided to go with this 500GB SSHD as opposed to the regular 7,200rpm spinner. I should have done more research before getting this drive. They are unfortunately not the same beasts. Now, the small file performance is spectacular. The drive is only 5,400rpm but the 8GB of flash memory is uses to cache the drive really cranks up the 4k file throughput. Overall small file benchmarks are great. However, if you will be working with large sound and video files then you should look into either a SSD or if that is too expensive then maybe the 7,200rpm HD version because the overall throughput is simply better on average. I’m lucky in this case because I am running Debian 8 on this laptop and not doing anything with huge sound/video files right now.
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Jose Ferrer –
Utilicé este disco para reemplazar el disco de una MacBook Pro 15″ 2011 (Unibody), pues el disco original estaba físicamente dañado. El disco es muy rápido, la computadora enciende de manera casi instantánea y la instalación fue muy sencilla.
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Jason –
Went straight to my new pc build as An OS drive and non essential files. All games went to the nvme. Works great.
Katie Poppy –
Worked fine once I got my old drive imaged over to it. Seagate allows for free imaging software, but when the drive was plugged into an external USB line to do the imaging, the software would not be able to detect that it was a Seagate drive in system manager. Used a different free imaging tool and it worked fine after that. The hybrid drive is a good option if you don’t want to fork out the money for a full solid state drive.
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Paul –
Excellent
CHRISTOPHER MERRIAM –
Love it..quick startup times. Really breathed new life into my old 13″ macbook.
Stephen Salter –
Good value and it worked.
Nii –
The hdd came without a cable to connect to the laptop. Can’t believe I have to dish out to buy another cable..😡
Carrie K. –
Got a fantastic deal on this item due to its condition, described as “minor cosmetic damage.” I never noticed the cosmetic damage – I popped this puppy right into my laptop to replace my aging conventional 2.5″ 320GB HDD and did a fresh OS install… and WOW! I haven’t benchmarked the drive and I’m using a different filesystem than I was previously (btrfs) so that may account for some of the gain in performance, but surely not all. Whereas previously booting was a good 10-15 second ordeal, with this drive if I blink for a few fractions of a second too long after powering on I’ll already be looking at my login prompt.Works flawlessly in Linux – I don’t believe hybrid drives need any of the special trim/discard options that are optimal for true SSDs, but correct me if I’m wrong, please.
Walter E. Kurtz –
Ho acquistato 3 HD di questo modello classificati come nuovi e pagati come tali.Sono arrivati 3 HD NON nuovi: l’imaballaggio non era sigillato, inoltre, il tecnico che mi ci ha fatto le installazioni per cui li avevo ordinati ha controllato l’utilizzo e dei 3 solo uno è risultato essere a 0 ore di lavoro pregresso.
Roderick Bohn –
First experience with this type of hard drive and after figuring out a few things very happy with. First had to connect to windows 8 and initialize the drive through disk management. Second used a star tech duplicator dock to clone my old drive that was having errors with freezing and locking up note read the instructions to ensure the target disk is in the right slot. Worked like a charm and doubled my hard drive storage. Boot time for win 7 went from 2 minutes to 22 seconds and my system is so much faster as a result.Also got 2 of the 500gb laptop size drives cloned a ps3 and a ps4 hdd and they run faster as well. Just remember to initialize the drive and seagate support was great as well fixing my issue over the phone.Note this is for just the drives with no box or instructions.
Steven T –
very happy with 2 of these thin 7mm 500gb drives. definitely faster then standard 5400rpm drives. Q uiet and vibration free in my ASUS 11″ laptop. Put 2nd drive in an HP laptop that was running slow and it helped. Cant wait for the large SSD’s to be priced similarly to these drives.
ashley –
Had my pc for a year and 3 months when the hd stopped suddenly. Ordered this as a last resort before purchasing another laptop-shipped very fast- and now so far had the product for a few months and it works great!!!! A+
Eric R –
I would give Seagate 5 stars if the ability to clone disks using DiscWizard would work with Windows 8.1. If you want to clone a drive using DiscWizard, read on. If not, buy this drive because Seagate drives are rock solid. This drive has a 3 yr warranty (Seagate used to offer 5 yr warranties on their drives). I bought this drive as an emergency backup to my daughter’s new laptop. In the past, I would clone drives in case a laptop drive died or the laptop was stolen. That allows me to remove the defective drive, insert the clone drive into the laptop and recover any “changed” data via the cloud from my daily backups. With a clone drive, there is no need to reinstall apps. The Seagate cloning software I’ve always used, DiscWizard, is downloadable from Seagate. Developed by Acronis Software and OEM’d by Seagate, it usually works well with Windows 7. Cloning Windows 8.1 is another story as DiscWizard spits out Runtime Exception error messages. Had great support from Seagate (kudos to Yasine from Seagate support in Oklahoma) and the best Seagate could do was to backup my drive, not clone it. After scouring the web, I found free Windows 8.1 cloning software called “Macruim Reflect”. Watched a YouTube video to verify it works. It does and I’m happy.
Bidhu –
Feedback after 8 months. The HDD is working very well. I did not like the packing. It just came with a cardboard wrapped on it.
Happybunny –
This hybrid drive replaces an older hard drive and was very easily installed. Once the image was loaded from the original drive, it booted up really quickly and, with the extra capacity, has been working very well with the extra data I needed to store. Excellent value.
i-sore –
Installation was a breeze once I figured out the process. Since this was a replacement hard drive for my laptop to increase file storage capacity, it was fairly smooth, and I managed to find freeware so didn’t have to purchase anything additional except a hard drive enclosure and a torq driver (Caution: not all disk cloning software is the same! Some only copy the visible data, not the hidden files). Feel like I have a new machine, and not longer have to worry about clearing files off every other day.
Another Consumer –
A nice replacement for crappy SATA drives that come standard with a macbook pro. Don’t waste money upgrading in-store when you can buy this for less than half the price.
Jasper –
Outstanding hard drive & performance. Arrived on time & packaged well. Fit laptop perfect & works flawlessly. Solid state drive is more efficient & faster than a normal hard drive. Definitely worth the price.
Kenneth Conigliaro –
Wow – Nice improvement in performance.I installed it in my Lenova Yoga 2 11. 7mm fit perfect not larger. It SATA cabled in a second.Had to set uefi security off on the HD, and used Acronis Home 2015 – to make an external backup file (.tib). You’ll need to install the new drive to the SATA controller and restore you .tib image from external USB Drive. You cannot clone via USB – windows 8.1.
Sylveszter –
I installed this one on my wife’s white 2009 macbook. Definitely gave a second life to this laptop. It boots really fast and has been reliable so far.Definitely a go for me.
benhadjeba –
satisfait
Cp –
Did the job as intended
Lastboyscoutuk –
Really pleased with this. Simple to install into laptop. As this is a hybrid drive, I was a little sceptical as to how quick the start up would be running Windows 10. I needn’t have worried, the start up time is excellent, not quite the same speed as a SSD, but significantly quicker than a normal drive. The laptop now runs like a dream now.
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TKABBE –
Platte ist geeignet für alle, die sich nicht umgewöhnen wollen abereinen schnelleren durchschnittlichen Plattenzugriff wünschen.Beschleunigung des Systems ist eindeutig fühl- und meßbar.Vista als Betriebssystem auf älterem HP-Business-Notelbook.In meinem Falle zerschlug mir der Umzug allerdings die Struktur von Winmail.Mails aus den 4 Jahren gingen allerdings nicht verloren.
G Henry –
I bought this drive to replace the stock 500gb 5400rpm traditional (mechanical) hard drive in my 2011 MacBook Pro 15″. To say that it feels like a new computer is not an exaggeration – this drive has made a world of difference.My laptop boots up about twice as fast as it did before. After that, commonly-used applications can be opened and are ready for use almost immediately (for me these are Mail, Safari, Messages, Outlook, Word, and Excel). Those two things alone have made this drive a worthwhile investment.This drive is for you if: You want a noticeably faster laptop, but don’t want to spend the money on a fully solid-state drive (or a new laptop).This drive is not for you if: You can afford to spend at least 4x as much (at the time of this review) to get a fully solid-state drive of similar capacity.Two things to remember:1) Don’t expect these improvements immediately after you install the drive. It has to learn which things you access most regularly so that it can keep copies of those files on it’s flash (fast!) memory, but this doesn’t take very long. Startup speed was markedly faster after about 5-6 startup/shutdown cycles. The improvements in application launch/performance became fully obvious within a few days of normal use.2) Not everything will be faster. Files and applications you don’t use very often will open and function at their normal speed. I suppose this could make them feel slow compared to the commonly-used ones, but I have not noticed this… Probably because I don’t use those files/apps very much. That’s almost the biggest trade-off for getting a hybrid-SSD instead of a true SSD – except for the difference in price.The drive is noticeably thinner than the stock 2.5″ laptop drive it replaced. This didn’t make a difference in my system, but I thought it was worth mentioning.As for installation: It’s easy. You can do it. You don’t need special knowledge or training. You just need Google and a few tiny screwdrivers. I recommend ifixit.com – they have free guides that are very detailed and helpful. I’m speaking from experience with MacBooks, but I would bet that the same is true for most other laptops as well.If you really want to curb that new-computer desire, here’s a tip: Upgrade the RAM while you’re inside the laptop. It’s even easier to do.The Bottom Line: If you’re using a laptop with a standard hard drive, what are you waiting for?
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Danny –
Bought this as an upgrade for my PS3 slim and the drive works great. Much faster than the old 120GB that was already in. Extremely well priced too.
かずべい –
ＨＰのＰｒｏＢｏｏｋ４３１０ｓと言う２年ぐらい前のＰＣには言っているＨＤＤは７２００ＲＰＭの３２０ＧＢで、キャッシュが１６ＭＢのタイプです。(消費電力は８００ｍＡｈでした)それをこのＳＳＨＤに換装した結果、無事にそのまま動かすことが可能でした。CrystalDiskMark2.1を使用してベンチを取りました。その前に私のPCは約2年前に購入後一度もでフラグをかけたことが無く、たまにCCleanerを使ってレジストリのでフラグをしていただけです。CPUはT3000(1.8MHz)でメモリは４GBに増設してあります。パラメーターは１０００MB,Cドライブ、これを2回やっています。☆オリジナルの結果シーケンシャルリード ： ６８．５９MBシーケンシャルライト ： ６７．４７MB５１２KBランダムリード ： ２５．９１MB５１２KBランダムライト ： ２７．８１MB４Kランダムリード ： ０．３５MB４Kランダムライト ： ０．８０MB☆換装後すぐに取ったデータシーケンシャルリード ： １０１．１MBシーケンシャルライト ： ９４．８９MB５１２KBランダムリード ： ３０．９８MB５１２KBランダムライト ： ４６．８０MB４Kランダムリード ： ０．４７MB４Kランダムライト ： ０．７３MBと、まあこんな結果でした。おおよそ全体で２５％ぐらいアップしていますので、若干体感速度が速くなったと思います。ただ私は通常シャットダウンはせず、ほぼスリープで置いたままですので、参考になるかどうか･･･SSHDはその特性上、最初はオリジナルより遅くて３０〜５０時間ぐらい使用すると、内部の８GBのSSD部分によくアクセスするデータがたまって、効率が上がるらしいです。また追記の形で、その時のデータを載せようかと思っています。ちなみにこのSSHDはSATA3(6G)対応ですが、私のPCはSATA2(3G?)なので、SATA3の方ならもっと数字は出るかと思います。また別件ですがオリジナル７４００RPMに対してSSHDは５４００RPMなので、熱、音、電力(７００mAh)共に小さくなりますので、それも特徴と思います。よく売れ出したらSSD部分を１６GBぐらいにしたモデルも出るんじゃないでしょうか。とりあえず今回は初回起動のみですので星は１つ減らしておきました。以上、今回は人柱のコメントでした。追記あの後１点問題が出て販売一時中止になってしまいました。原因はＳＳＨＤとＳＳＨＤでコピーをすると、速度が極端に落ちてしまうようです。普通はあまりないことですが、これはハードデュプリケーター（お立ち台シリーズとか）でも場合です。実験はしていませんが、ＰＣのソフトを使ってコピーした場合は問題無いんじゃないかなと思います。いずれにしても一般的にはＨＤＤからの乗り換えに使うのが普通ですから、ＨＤＤ＝＞ＳＳＨＤの場合は特に問題ありません。特に商品に問題がある訳ではなさそうなので、追記しておきます。それと、デフラグとチェックディスクをすると、速度が少し上がるようです。☆ついでに７月１１日現在のデータです。シーケンシャルリード ： ９４．２４MBシーケンシャルライト ： １１５．３MB５１２KBランダムリード ： ３３．０３MB５１２KBランダムライト ： ６７．９２MB４Kランダムリード ： ０．６６２MB４Kランダムライト ： ０．７４３MBシーケンシャルが落ちていますが、１１０ＭＢぐらいのときもあります？（不思議）
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Jared’s Shop –
I purchased this hard drive to help speed up my Toshiba A11 laptop. It seemed to perform well at first and I did note a speed increase in booting as it learned my most read files. Unfortunately, it’s stability was very shaky from the beginning.The hard drive does not appear to be stable enough to be used in a laptop. My laptop often sits on the end table beside my recliner. The simple motion of picking up the laptop to move it over to my lap would cause it to squeal. You could tell the head was scratching the platters. As it sat on the end table you could also hear the drive clicking all of the time. It would often blue screen and would want to run checkdisk on almost every reboot.My laptop is not abused and was never dropped while this drive was installed. I do not understand why it was so fragile. I don’t know if it is missing the motion sensing features that most other laptop drives have or if I just received a bad drive. Either way, it didn’t work out for me. I’m shipping mine to Seagate for warranty and hope it gets replaced ok, at which time I may install it in my desktop or just sell it.
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John Bruening –
have had no problems with ether drives
Patrick –
Habe mir diese Festplatte gekauft, da ich neben der Arbeit auch viel mit dem Rechner Game. Die Festplatte ist super, schnelle Ladzeiten trotz der Masse an Spielen und bis jetzt ist diese noch am Laufen. Hatte vorher 3 SSD Festplatte die waren alle schnell kaputt.
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Gemma Marsh –
Great little hard drive so far. Bought to replace failed macbook hard drive; installed and backup restored quickly and easily, runs somewhat faster than conventional HDs. Not as fast as a solid state drive, but it isn’t meant to be – for a fraction of the price hybrids are a bridge between the two and I for one am happy with mine.
sonystrash –
Hat meine kaputte ps4 ersetzt und funktioniert jetzt wieder top
fishsoft –
Zu dieser Festplatte gibt es eigentlich nicht viel zu sagen. Einiges mache ich aber trotzdem, auch wenn es schon viele vor mir getan haben.Diese Festplatte sitzt bei mir in einem 3,5 Zoll Wechselrahmen (ICY DOCK MB882SP-1S-1B), den ich auf der Unterseite mit einigen 12mm großen Lüftungslöchern versehen habe. Unter dem Wechselrahmen sitzt ein Festplattenlüfter von Scythe, den ich im Rechnerbios auf 50% gedrosselt habe. Das Betriebssystem Windows 10-64 Insider-Preview ist auf dieser Festplatte installiert.1. Positives.Die Festplatte ist eigentlich gar nicht zu hören, lediglich beim Rechnerstart das Anlaufgeräusch. Sie nimmt wenig Strom auf und wird bei mir auch nicht sehr warm (max. 34 Grad). Das kommt aber sicherlich durch den verbauten Lüfter. Die Festplatte ist auch ausreichend schnell, kommt aber an meine SSD logischerweise nicht heran. Selbst meine internen 3,5 Festplatten sind da schon schneller. Macht mir aber nichts.2. Negatives.Der Rechnerstart wird tatsächlich beschleunigt, zumindest nach dem der Rechner einige Male gestartet ist. Was mich aber wirklich sehr stört, ist die Tatsache das, wenn ich die Festplatte aus dem Rechner nehme, weil ich gerade eine anderes Betriebssystem benötige und setze sie dann wieder ein, der Lernprozess wieder von vorne anfängt. Scheint so, als wenn die Platte ständig unter Strom stehen muss um die Daten im internen Flash-Speicher zu halten. Ich habe aber nirgendwo Informationen dazu gefunden, ob es ein Fehler meiner Platte ist, oder ob es normal ist.Bis auf diesen Kritikpunkt bin ich mit dem Laufwerk zufrieden.
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RaRo –
Die Produktabbildung lässt eine aktuelle / moderne Festplatte vermuten. Die gelieferte Version sieht anders aus und trägt die Information “Date Code Nov2015”. Geliefert wurde eine fabrikneue Festplatte, vermutlich hergestellt im November 2015. Preis und Leistung sind ok. Wäre Produktabbildung und die gelieferte Platte gleich, hätte ich 5 Sterne vergeben.
YauheniBolt –
This hard drive stopped working after 5 month of use on my Macbook Pro 15 (early 2011). It crashed the computer AND it deleted all the files on the hard disk.Tried to contact the seller, however never received a reply.DO NOT BUY
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Barry Hotchin –
This is NOT an SSD. It’s a slow hard drive with a cache. If you want more storage then this can fit the bill but for a laptop this is totally unusable. A 7200 rpm drive is better than this 5200 with cache. GARBAGE
Tom Holt –
My laptop HD died on me so I bought this Hybrid drive to replace it. It is every bit as good as the advertising claims. I reckon my laptop now boots in about half the time – 15 seconds, and shuts down almost instantly. Also, the machine comes out of sleep in a couple of seconds. An undocumented advantage is that Internet connections are also noticeably faster, presumably because much of the cacheing is done via the SSD. I’ve had it for a couple of months now with no issues. So why only 4 stars?Seagate haven’t really thought these drives out. The HD part defragments just as much as any other HD. Mine is currently 38% fragmented – which would have been crippling on anything other than a Hybrid drive. But you can’t defragment without compromising the SSD. Every defragmentation shortens the life of the SSD and also temporarily slows it down since defragtmentation destroys it’s ‘memory’ of what you do most often. The simplest solution would be a utility that temporarily suspended the operation of the SSD until you had finished defragmenting the HD. So far as I know, no such utility exists. The only solution is the unsatisfactory one of defragmenting much less frequently than the state of the HD requires. This nees sorting!
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Marko –
The way the ad is set up I though it was a SSD drive meaning a all solid state drive; I could have gotten the same drive on EBay for about $20 less. It was a wake up call for me to be more detailed when reading ads.
Manfred Thieleke –
Der Einbau dieser Festplatte und die anschließende Neuinstallation von Win10 erfolgte problemlos. Notebook läuft seither wieder perfekt.
Peter Walloch –
Fischkarte funktioniert wunderbar, kann ich nur empfehlen. Wer gern Produkttester
A. J. H. –
We are blown away by this drive. It uses the SSD to load the operating system. Mavericks, on our Mac. Booting the Mac used to go like this: hit the power button, go make a cup of coffee, and come back and it (usually) would be ready to use.After we installed the Seagate SSHD it goes like this: Hit the power button, adjust your chair to settle in and boom; The Mac us up and ready to go.It’s more like turning on the iPad now, than turning on a computer! Best drive we ever bought. You will not regret it!!
kyle scott –
my old computer slowed down this ssd changed that asap
Kindle Customer –
I have a 6 yr old MacBook that has been showing its age in slower performance and a small (120 Gb) original HD. I don’t travel as much as I used to, so it doesn’t see as much use. However, a laptop is handy when there is a power outage or other circumstances where my desktop is unavailable. I had considered trading up, but couldn’t justify the cost of a new model for the low usage, and a used (but newer) didn’t provide didn’t pass my cost/benefit criteria. A 500 Gb SSHD for about $55, and a $30 RAM upgrade looked like an economical way to extend my old MacBook’s useful life. Physical installation was quick & easy, though loading the OS via USB took longer than expected. I expected a bump in performance, but underestimated the improvement. Startup time is a fraction of the time it used to take, and general use is improved everywhere by using the SS portion of the drive for the OS and other heavily used apps. Plus I was able to triple my storage and still provide a separate small partition for a built-in backup boot drive.If you have an older computer that isn’t up to par for regular use, but not yet completely obsolete, or you want to pass it on to a child or younger sibling, a hybrid SSHD will give you the biggest bang for your buck. And while it’s open to swap the HD, why not add some inexpensive RAM.
Eric B –
I purchased this drive as it said it had a SATA connection, which would be compatible with my Dell D620. However that wasn’t the case. After I mirrored the internal drive to this, and install this drive into the drive bay, the system wouldn’t boot or even recognize the drive. I tried multiple ways to connect the drive, including making sure the connector was fully inserted, but it was a no-go.I then tried the drive in my Dell E6410, and after playing around a bit with the drive carrier, I was able to fully insert the drive and get the system to boot.Overall, I’m not overly impressed with this drives performance. My system does boot a little faster, but overall I’m still experiencing similar performance problems I had with my previous spinning only 5400RPM drive. Overall, its okay.
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sebas –
My PS4 hard drive started giving out on me constantly multiple times a day I was rebuilding the database. This SSHD was perfectly suited to replace my old one and I have not had to rebuild or anything software related fixes to my PS4 since the swap. Completely awesome experience, packaged safely and securely.
Christopher PLACAK –
I have about 100 multi TB (2 to 3 TB) hard drives from Seagate, about 50 SSDs from various manufacturers. This is the first hybrid drive that I have purchased, installed and used and I was quite curious to give one a try. I had read the reviews about this model and it performs as stated. The device performs better than a plain hard drive but it of course is no where near the performance of a SSD from SanDisk, Micron/Crucial or Samsung, etc. This is the ideal product to replace an older hard drive in a good quality laptop so that you get the boost in performance. It is a great product.
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Kayu_Hamburg –
Also, SSHD soll ja die Geschwindigkeit einer SSD mit der Kapazität einer HDD kombinieren.Nun ja, zur Geschwindigkeit: (Ich habe ein Screenshot mit einem Benchmark angehängt)Im Vergleich zu einer HDD sind die unteren Werte der kleinen Dateien wirklich gut. Die Geschwindigkeit die die SSHD bei einer 2KB großen Datei erreicht, schafft meine alte HDD erst bei einer 64KB großen Datei. Es ist also eine wirklich gute Leistungssteigerung, doch nur bei diesen kleinen Dateien bis 64KB, Größere Dateien liefern die gleiche Geschwindigkeit wie eine Normale HDD. Doch dies liegt ja in der Natur einer SSHD, die 8GB Flashspeicher bieten also genug Boost für eine große Anzahl von kleinen Dateien.Im Vergleich zu meiner SSD von Kingston (300V) liefert sie sogar erstaunlich bessere leistung in diesen kleinen Bereichen. Meine SSD liefert allerdings schon bei 8KB 150% der Performance, mit 150-180 MB/sec, bis hoch zu 550MB/sec bei Großen Dateien ab 128KB.Was aber gar nicht geht ist die Temperaturentwicklung… Nach einer Stunde Kopiervorgang erreicht die SSHD schon 51° CMeine SSD und HDD liegen hier bei 33-39° C über 40° C bekommt man schon von manchen Herstellern eine erwartete Lebenszeit von nur 50% optimal sind hier einfach unter 40°C weshalb ich die Festplatte nicht für Sensible Daten empfehlen würde… Als reine Programm- und Betriebssystemplatte kann man sie evtl nutzen.ST500LM000-1EJ162—————————————————————————-Model : ST500LM000-1EJ162Firmware : SM16Serial Number : W####### (ersetzt)Disk Size : 500,1 GB (8,4/137,4/500,1/500,1)Buffer Size : UnbekanntQueue Depth : 32# of Sectors : 976773168Rotation Rate : 5400 RPMInterface : Serial ATAMajor Version : ACS-2Minor Version : ACS-3 Revision 3bTransfer Mode : SATA/600Power On Hours : 381 Std.Power On Count : 169 malTemparature : 51 C (123 F)Health Status : GutFeatures : S.M.A.R.T., APM, 48bit LBA, NCQAPM Level : 8080h [ON]AAM Level : —-
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Just Greg –
Very fast at very good price
Cl Newlin –
I would like to say that this was easy to install, but I would be not giving the whole truth. Getting at the drive in the laptop was not the easiest task but once done and drive installed, all was plain sailing and save a 6 year old laptop from the scrap heap. The drive is fast and so far reliable and has made the HP laptop it is installed in like a new machine. Very happy!
Orion –
I needed a little upgrade and boost to my Dell Studio 1735 laptop and this fit the bill very well.It decreased my boot time to about 15 seconds.All in all a nice upgrade.May 17 update the drive died! In my laptop today nuthin. Luckily I had a back up data and kept my cloned drive. I’ve RMA’ed it thru Seagate. It isn’t the 1st time nor will it be the last that I’ve had to RMA a drive.I’ll take off 2 stars until I get the replacement and reinstall it…We’ll see if it last. ‘Replacement drive is working very well.
Bustd1 –
Installed 2 of these SSHD’s in Raid 0 configuration and the speed is that of a SSD drive. Extremely quiet and runs quite cool. Both are very important in laptops. These are new very thin type HD’s. 5yr warranty is nice to!!! Did I mention extremely FAST!!!