[dba-Tech] Seagare Momentus XT SSHD

I don't have any experience of Hybrid drives, but we have around 250 Lenovo laptops here, all with SSDs. We've had to replace around 30 of them under warranty. I don't know if we had a bad batch, but it's getting to be a bit of a high number, especially given that we've had 5 motherboard replacements too, and these laptops are all under 6 months old.

Our desktops aren't faring much better either - Lenovo actually told us that we had a bad batch of motherboards, and we've replaced nearly 200 on the 600 desktops we bought... lots of fun!


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: 25 October 2012 15:33
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Seagare Momentus XT SSHD

Does anyone have any experience with these? It's what the company calls a Solid State Hybrid Drive -- 500GB for $80 here in Toronto. I suppose that the "hybrid" part means that some smaller amount of the total is SSD and the remainder traditional spinning disk. Any idea of the performance gain?
I would guess that the optimal layout would be to place the OS (and maybe SQL Server, if there's room) on the SSD part and use the rest for normal storage. The ad says "SSD-like performance without sacrificing capacity and affordability" By comparison, at the same store, there's a 256GB SSD with data transfer kit for $209.

Any informed experience, folks?
Arthur
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