[dba-Tech] Seagare Momentus XT SSHD

Arthur,

I have used a Momentus 500 hybrid in my laptop for about 2 years. It makes a 
big difference in boot time like from close to 3 minutes down to around 1. 
I have installed a couple in friends and clients and had similar experience.

I purchased a 256 Crucial M4 SSD for my wife's computer and tried it in my 
laptop before installing in her computer. Boot times were about the same and 
overall performance was only slightly better so I'm sticking with the 
hybrid for now.  I purchased 2 256 SSD's the first on sale at 189 the one 
for my wife was on sale for 159 both were one day sales.

HTH

Bill

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Fuller
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:33 AM
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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