Seagate Hybrid Drive Review

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Seagate hybrid drive review.

So i grabbed a seagate firecuda 1tb. We pit the firecuda sshd against a. Seagate also faces off against software solutions that can leverage a low capacity ssd as a caching solution for hard drives. Seagate media sync for windows.

Seagate media sync for mac. The street price of the 1tb is 100 00 and the street price of the 2tb is 140 00. Firecuda drives meld the latest nand flash technology with a traditional hard drive for a compact blend of capacity and speeds up to 5 faster than typical hard drives all backed by a 5 year warranty. Solid state hybrid drives blend conventional platter based hard drives and the new solid state drive technologies.

It and the previous generation momentus xt hybrid lead seagate s offerings including the barracuda 3tb. Copy and synchronize your media files with your external drive. Current dashboard users can effortlessly back up content as well as share and save media on social networks with legacy backup software. For those who aren t familiar with these types of drives the concept.

The controller in the drive will decide what lives where caching your most used data on the nand but ultimately a hybrid will be faster than a standard hdd. Today we take a look at the latest hybrid drive from seagate the current flagship of their 2 5 line up with the seagate firecuda 2 5 sshd. Both come with a 3 year warranty. On one hand the desktop sshd turns in the best performance of any of the seagate drives.

Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The seagate desktop sshd hybrid comes in two capacities 1tb or 2tb. If you have an aversion for multiple drives or is limited to a single drive solution where capacity and performance are both in consideration sshds are still the best route to go and noone does sshds like seagate does. Seagate recently rolled out their third generation of solid state hybrid drives sshd and asked us to take it for a spin.