chuck23322 Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=6280178&sku=TMD-500AS4 Seagate ST95005620AS Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid Drive - 500GB, 7200 RPM, SATA 3Gb/s Item#: TMD-500AS4 | Model#: ST95005620AS 2 year warranty -- and remember this is a 2.5" laptop-sized drive, you'll need a cheap adapter if you want to run it in a 3.5" bay. was $89, now $79. I have the 750gb in my laptop and it screams. Neat concept of speed benefits (to a degree) of being part SSD, plus size of storage of a regular hard disk, for a decent price. I'm tempted to use one of these as a cache drive .... but would make a nice laptop upgrade too. Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I love these drives, I have two! I don't think they are a terribly good choice for an unRAID cache drive, however. You want a cache drive to have fast writes, but you don't really care about the reads. This drive is the opposite: normal writes (as they go to the platter), but fast reads (as they are buffered in the SSD portion of the drive). So this drive won't perform any better than a standard laptop hard drive when used as an unRAID cache drive. If you run lots of apps from your unRAID cache drive then this drive might be a good fit. Quote Link to comment
geekette Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Hrm, I just looked up the performance of this particular drive on PassMark http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net and its score is 560. The 7200 RPM 750GB WD Scorpio Black 2.5" hard drive got a score of 764--but it's like $100 The only reason I mentioned this is because I was looking at performance of 2.5" hard disks last night because I want one for my desktop. (I have this little 4 bay 2.5" raid cage--fits in 5 1/4" drive bay).This little 750GB I mentioned is faster than my WD Black 3.5" 7200RPM 1TB drive which got a score of around 650. Quote Link to comment
mrow Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Hrm, I just looked up the performance of this particular drive on PassMark http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net and its score is 560. The 7200 RPM 750GB WD Scorpio Black 2.5" hard drive got a score of 764--but it's like $100 The only reason I mentioned this is because I was looking at performance of 2.5" hard disks last night because I want one for my desktop. (I have this little 4 bay 2.5" raid cage--fits in 5 1/4" drive bay).This little 750GB I mentioned is faster than my WD Black 3.5" 7200RPM 1TB drive which got a score of around 650. The WD Scorpio Blacks perform great. I use a 320GB model as my cache drive. Quote Link to comment
chuck23322 Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 Hrm, I just looked up the performance of this particular drive on PassMark http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net and its score is 560. The 7200 RPM 750GB WD Scorpio Black 2.5" hard drive got a score of 764--but it's like $100 The only reason I mentioned this is because I was looking at performance of 2.5" hard disks last night because I want one for my desktop. (I have this little 4 bay 2.5" raid cage--fits in 5 1/4" drive bay).This little 750GB I mentioned is faster than my WD Black 3.5" 7200RPM 1TB drive which got a score of around 650. The WD Scorpio Blacks perform great. I use a 320GB model as my cache drive. The small 2.5 laptop ones? or are you talking the 3.5" ones? Quote Link to comment
mrow Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Hrm, I just looked up the performance of this particular drive on PassMark http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net and its score is 560. The 7200 RPM 750GB WD Scorpio Black 2.5" hard drive got a score of 764--but it's like $100 The only reason I mentioned this is because I was looking at performance of 2.5" hard disks last night because I want one for my desktop. (I have this little 4 bay 2.5" raid cage--fits in 5 1/4" drive bay).This little 750GB I mentioned is faster than my WD Black 3.5" 7200RPM 1TB drive which got a score of around 650. The WD Scorpio Blacks perform great. I use a 320GB model as my cache drive. The small 2.5 laptop ones? or are you talking the 3.5" ones? Yes, the 2.5 inch laptop drives. http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=130 Quote Link to comment
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