ST2000DX001 2TB Desktop 3.5 inch SSHD Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive

I was looking to update my HDD as I had developed problems and wanted something quicker...I was originally going to go SSD and keep my old Hard drive as storage...a Samsung Spinpoint 5200 ...but needed more storage and Speed...and having read about Hybrid HDD's I decided to go with this...I decided to do a complete install of Windows..I removed all Hdd's and installed this one...It was recognised right away and after a fresh install it worked really quickly... Before I used to start up in about 2/3 minutes and even then it would be another minute before the damn computer would allow me to do anything with speed....NOW...I start up in 50 seconds (Windows 7) and I can go straight into any work I need to do..Everything is so much quicker to respond...I noticed in particular my Paint shop Pro...It used to take 45 seconds to open....Now..10 seconds...that's seriously quick for a program like this.....I'll admit..I did change my Processor also to a Quad core...Now my computer is fun to use again and so quick in opening and the performance is super quick. I'm well pleased with this Hybrid HDD with the extra storage and speed it delivers ..all at a fantastic price....and it's quiet too...I would recomend this HDD to anyone looking to increase the speed AND storage of their computer without the ridiculous cost....Cheers..

This was my first SSHD drive and I loved it. Works very good. Let say from opening the pack to up and running my system from it took half an hour thanks to my hot swape hard drive bay. I bought the desktop version after reading a lot of reviews and I have decided to put this in my system to stay under the budget and get the speed of an SSD with the capacity of 7200rpm hard drive. The drive come well packed in an antistatic pack which was in a box very carefully packaged with appropriate support. Just to clarify this is the desktop version. I used the Seagate Disc Wizard to clone my 80GB 7200 rpm primary drive, which took 20 minutes to transfer 42gb of data which was really good. Rebooted the sytem went to BIOS and choose this as the primary drive and happy days. I noticed the speed difference immediately, the booting times improved by half of what it used to take, I copied games over and the loading times improved also the general copying, moving and using start up menus, applications loading speed improved by a huge factor. Very impressed with the purchase, would recommend it to anyone who are on a budget who want to have performance of an SSD with the capacity of an old school 7200rpm 1tb hard drive. These are my specs just to show what do I mean by a bugdet build. AMD FX 8320 8-core Processor Gigabyte 970A Mainboard Corsair H100 Water Cooling Fractal Design Define R4 Silent Case Seagate 1TB SSHD Drive HIS Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 Graphics Card Acer 27" Monitor HyperX Fury 8gb DDR31866Mhz RAM

First off, it took 9 hours to clone my old Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA HDD across to this new 2TB SSHD, largely due to the 2 successive failed attempts using Seagate DiscWizard software - the first failure was after 4.5 hours and was almost done, the second failed after just 1 hour and 20 mins. Then I re-initialized the new SSHD as GPT and not MBR (Master Boot Record) even though the Seagate DiscWizard Manual said it was okay to use either format for drives up to 2.2TB in size and to use MBR for older OS like XP or Vista. However what the manual DOES NOT tell you is that you should always format all new drives as if they were just a standard data drive (thus initialize as GPT) irrespective of size, before you copy the clone across to them even though you intend the new drive to be an OS BOOT or SYSTEM DRIVE! *** Please note: when your PC sees this new SSHD for the 1st time, initialize as GPT and not MBR *** Okay teething problems aside. this new hybrid drive is working fine now - although I did need a "PC Restart to Repair C:\ Drive Errors" just 24 hours after I began using it as my local drive. The main advantage is the higher WRITE speed thanks to the bigger memory cache buffer i.e. the in-built 8 GB of flash memory that distinguishes this SSHD from a regular SATA III HDD. I am now getting a minimum of 180 MB/s sustained write speeds (sometimes more), but slighter slower READ speeds than my external 3TB HDDs via a USB 3.0 cable (about 15 MB/s slower). However, when compare to my older (as in 4 years old) 1TB SATA HDD that was my C:\ system drive before this week, the READ speeds are higher -> about 20% faster whilst the WRITE speeds are +100% higher (so in effect double what I was getting before). Shutdown times have fallen to just 16 secs, but Cold Boot from start times are no better than before, and that's with few startup programs enabled - still takes about 55-60 seconds from power on to see the desktop icons settle on my monitor and for the PC to become responsive to user input. Hence the 4-Stars and not 5. That plus slower read times than my external Seagate drives and the problems I had with cloning my old C:\ drive to this one. Pros (1) Writes about twice as fast as older SATA I/II HDDs and about +15% faster than new SATA III Barracudas (2) Offers reasonable value when compared to the normal 2TB SATA III HDD (costs about £25 more) but offers 8 GB flash memory too and is WAY CHEAPER than even a 240 GB SSD (3) Gives off less heat than the older HDDs (I tried both in an external USB 3.0 caddy and I could touch this one without getting my palms burnt) and uses less power too -> about 4.5 to 5 watts (older HDDs I have use 7 watts minimum) (4) CrystalDiskMark 3 performance benchmark tests show that it is only slower at reading SEQ (Sequential) files than new SATA III HDDs, but in all other tests e.g. Random 512K and 4K as well as 4K QD32 it blows away conventional Seagate HDDs in both READ + WRITE tests (so only marginally slower in the large file sequential test, but in the other 7 out of 8 tests - 4 READ + 4 WRITE it scores higher) Cons (1) Larger drives may be difficult to clone/take an inordinate amount of time -> failed to work initialized as 'MBR' (2) Around 1/3 as fast as SSD when it comes to READ speeds and roughly 1/2 as fast in WRITING to disc, so a marginal improvement over conventional hard drives, but not in the same league as SSD flash drives (3) Task Manager -> Performance -> Disc 0 (C:) shows that these drives often stay at 100% even after all Programs are closed and internet disconnected (probably the learning function, but it does slow down the PC a bit for a short while; min or two) Conclusion: Would I buy another one? Yes. I'm actually considering a 4TB SSHD to replace my other internal older 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive for 3 reasons: (1) No need to clone, just insert, bootup, enter Disk Management and initialize as GPT then format as NTFS -> so very easy to incorporate and good on power consumption & heat thrown off, (2) Price at £133 is only marginally more expensive than 4TB NAS approved Seagate and the same as an external regular 5900 RPM USB 3.0 Expansion drive -> so there is reasonable value, and (3) I have a use video library (> 10 Terabytes) and I'm constantly copying & moving files around e.g. every .MKV I download is immediately converted to .MP4 using Movavi SuperSpeed so fast WRITE speed is important to my particular needs (converting a 2 GB movie to .mp4 in 8-9 seconds is great!!). Everyone who uses a PC and copies big files knows that thanks to memory cache the initial speed is very good then often it falls a little and settles at a constant rate, with that extra internal flash RAM on-board these SSHD write fast continuously without any drop-off and I've really noticed this even when copying files back from USB 3.0 external drives, that I'm getting +30 to +35 MB/s gains in sustained rates. Seagate are a good brand and these SSHD do work well, although I may need to use for a few weeks more to see if the adaptive process yields any benefits once it learns which apps I use a lot (so far no discernible difference with Excel/Access/Photoshop/Premiere Pro etc.

Until the price of SSDs comes down these hybrid drives are your best bet. I have two PCs at home, one with a 128GB SSD and my main one, with this drive, and I can hardly tell the difference in speed. I have Windows 8.1 installed on both and the boots times are pretty much identical, although the PC with the SSD is running a much slower CPU, which may be balancing things. The extra storage space means I have Steam and all of my Steam games installed on the hybrid and my games have never loaded faster. Valve themselves stuck one of these in their prototype Steam Machines. A friend of mine was about to buy an SSD for twice the price of this, and only a fraction of the storage, and I recommended he get this instead. I was a bit worried because different people have different experiences, depending on what they use their PC for and its specs (I use mine for games and films), but he absolutely LOVES it. So if you're in the market for either a large storage HD or an SSD then get this, and you won't regret it. I'm very surprised there aren't more of these on the market.

In all fairness, I was quite apprehensive about purchasing this. The concept of SSD+HDD is brilliant, and I am actually so happy to have purchased this drive. I have tested my boot times, and they have gone from around 32 seconds to 19 seconds, that is pretty impressive considering this is not actually a SSD, instead a hybrid! I am so impressed that I have actually gone ahead and reinstalled Windows 8 to use this drive as my primary device, I could have simply cloned the device but I fancied a fresh install anyway. So, up to now this drive is doing its job - I will update in a few months and let you know how things are going. At this point in time, I would say this is an absolute steal and well worth your hard earned cash!

Installed fine, works fine with no issues or conflicts. But then so did my old drive, I am left a bit underwhelmed by any speed increase, if its there I am not noticing. Sure enough when I did a fresh intstall to start everything was flying along, but again that's normal. Once the computer has been in use a couple of weeks it is business as usual. No problem its fast enough I was just hoping to be wowed a little more. Worth a try if your buying a new drive anyway, but I wouldn't upgrade to this unless there is a fault with your old drive or its very out of date.

I wanted to give my 6 year old PC a bit of a speed boost and after reading several reviews decided on this Seagate over a full solid state drive ( I will wait till they come down in price a bit more ). Good job I did as old hard drive 'died' on me. Replaced original drive on newer PC with this one .... and yes it does speed up your boot up times and other frequently used software ... but it takes a few days of use to come into full effect. No problems with Windows 8.1 installation. Very well packed & protected by seller. As usual with Seagate drive build quality and downloadable software very good. May get larger 2 or 4gb when money allows. Rare, for me, 5 star review given.

I decided to replace my boot drive a while back, but after a system corruption I decided the time was now. On my old drive which was a 6gbs transfer rate drive the system seemed to be getting slow and programs took a while to load. Now I have quite a powerful PC i7 processor, 8gb of ram so it should run fast but I found after a while and loading a number of programs over several days it did not. So enter the Seagate ST2000DX001. First off I “cloned” my old Boot drive after I had restored a good image before the corruption. So I know I was comparing like for like, the only difference was allowing an extra 100gb of space on the C Boot to the previous 2gb old disk, not that the old drive C lacked space it had 250gb free or more at all times. After the clone had been done I swapped the disk in and booted. All went well and immediately I noticed booting was faster, not only that but repetitive use of programs was loading almost instantly. A couple of times I rebooted after program and Microsoft updates (why do we have so many Microsoft updates) the booting process was even faster unfortunately I had not timed the old drive so could not compare on a stop watch but I know it was 50% faster and on some programs much more than that – I thought this was the best investment on a drive I had made in years. Any downsides, well only one I have found so far and it may not be connected, my google spellcheck used to correct spellings without a hitch, now sometimes it shows the word is wrong, shows the correction but does not always correct so I have to do it manually – a minor thing really. So far nothing else has shown up as odd. Thank you Seagate a great drive.

Erst einmal wichtig anzumerken: Ich habe der SSHD keinen Langzeittest unterzogen und kann daher (zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt) keine Auskunft über eventuelle, nach einiger Zeit auftretende Probleme geben. Ich berichte über meine bisherige Erfahrung mit dieser Festplatte. Wie man der Beschreibung entnehmen kann handelt es sich um eine Solid-State-Hybrid-Festplatte, kurz SSHD, aus dem Hause Seagate, welche neben der reinen auf 'normalem' Festplattenspeicher beruhenden Kapazität von 2TB und dem üblichen, schnellen 64MB Cache noch über einen 8GB großen Halbleiter- bzw. SSD-Cache verfügt, welcher mit der Zeit häufig genutze Programme und Daten zur schnelleren Benutzbarkeit aufnimmt. Soweit, so bekannt. In meinem Fall habe ich diese Festplatte zusammen mit einer 120GB großen SSD von Kingston gekauft, welche als Windows-Datenträger dient und auf der zusätzlich einige der am häufigsten von mir genutzen Programme installiert sind. Die SSHD-Festplatte benutze ich als sekundären Datenträger für weniger oft genutzte Programme, große Spiele und auch einige große Dateien. Bisher bin ich von der Festplatte absolut überzeugt. Sie arbeitet schnell (doppelt so schnell wie meine alte, ca. 3,5 Jahre alte Samsung HDD) und läuft problemlos im Zusammenspiel mit der besagten SSD. Aus reinem Interesse habe ich einmal ein Benchmark laufen lassen, da kommt diese Festplatte beim lesen und schreiben auf jeweils ca. 200MB/s. Da mir aber der subjektive Eindruck unter realen Bedingungen wichtiger ist als diese rohen Daten, kann man das erst einmal beiseite legen. Wie erwartet traten die Geschwindigkeitsschübe des Halbleiterspeichers der Festplatte nach mehrmaligem Benutzen von Programmen und Dateien ein. Dann reagieren diese Programme deutlich schneller, fast so schnell wie die auf meiner 'richtigen' SSD. Das heißt man kann auch problemlos mehr Programme auf die SSHD verschieben und diese starten dann am Ende ähnlich schnell als wenn sie auf einer SSD installiert wären. Diese Technik ist natürlich für Spiele und Spieler besonder interessant, wenn man keine oder nur wie in meinem Fall kleine SSD besitzt, auf der man nicht viele/keine Spiele installieren kann und man aber trotzdem häufig genutzte Spiele schnell geladen haben möchte. Von der Temeratur der Festplatte bin ich ebenfalls überzeugt. Beim laufenden Betrieb (Kopieren/Verschieben von 450(!)GB) von meiner alten HDD auf die neue SSHD (und im Gegenzug viele GB in der andere Richtung) wurde diese nur 25-32 Grad warm, während sich die HDD auf ca. 40 Grad erwärmte. Das ist schon ein großer Unterschied. Und meinem subjektiven Empfinden nach läuft diese Festplatte auch relativ leise, man hört sie zwar ab und zu, aber es stört in keinem Fall. Und wenn sich den Preis dieser Festplatte ansieht, kann man das exzellente Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis ansprechen: Für momentan ca. 100€ (2TB-Version) bekommt man eine von sich aus schon schnelle Festplatte, welche mit der Zeit dazulernt und noch schneller wird und deswegen in manchen Aspekten mit einer SSD annähernd zu vergleichen ist. Und dafür zahlt man nur 20€ mehr als für eine normale Festplatte mit dieser Kapazität! Fazit: Ich kann diese Festplatte uneingeschränkt empfehlen, sowohl für Leute, die große Kapazität und gleichzeitig Schnelligkeit für einen Betrieb neben einer SSD wünschen, als auch für Leute, die sich aufgrund des Preises gegen eine SSD entscheiden und sich trotzdem ein sehr schnelles System wünschen. Für beides ist bzw. wäre sie sehr gut geeignet! Zusammenfassung Positiv: + Von sich aus schon schnell, nach kurzer Lernzeit bei häufig genutzen Dingen dann richtig, richtig schnell + relativ leise, wird nicht sehr warm + in großen Kapazitäten verfügbar + sowohl als primäre Festplatte gut nutzbar als auch als sekundäre neben einer herkömmlichen SSD + Festplatte regelt Zusammenspiel von integriertem SSD- und HDD-Speicher eigenständig und es wird keine Software, zusätzliche Treiber oder Ähnliches benötigt + Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis TOP! Neutral/Negativ: - Ehrlich gesagt fällt mir da zum Gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt nichts ein....

Un prodotto che non delude in quanto a velocità in scrittura e lettura, arriva tranquillamente sopra i 200 MB/s di sotto si può vedere un benchmark sintetico. Si tratta di un ottima soluzione per ridurre drasticamente i tempi di caricamento dei giochi, con un rapporto qualità/prezzo davvero eccellente, può essere anche un ottima alternativa come disco primario se non si vuole spendere soldi aggiuntivi per un SSD, in avvio la cache ibrida è molto veloce, non raggiunge i tempi di avvio di un SSD ma èp molto più veloce di un HDD e non fa rimpiangere la mancanza dell'SSD. In ogni caso è un eccellente prodotto per installazione di giochi del resto è per questo che viene maggiormente pubblicizzato dalla seagate. L'imballaggio pèer questo prodotto è ai minimi termini, arriva senza scatola nella busta antistatica, amazon puntuale e preciso come sempre raccomandato per chi vuole un avvio più veloce ma non vuole mettere un ssd o per l'installazione di tanti giochi

I got it delivered today as it was being said. The package was good. I backed up my entire Mac OSX 10.9 from Time Machine. It is working absolutely fantastic. The speed is awesome. I would recommend this product. The only complain I have is, it was not bundled with the SATA and the Power Cable. I again had to go to the local market to buy those stuff. If I would have known it the first time, I would have ordered them too !

Disco de gran capacidad y rendimiento ligeramente superior a un disco tradicional. Esta tecnología combina la capacidad de un HDD con la velocidad de un SSD ya que posee 8GB destinados a tal efecto. Todo funciona transparente al usuario, ya que no ves esos 8GB y el disco duro es el que prioriza almacenando en ese espacio ultra-rapido los archivos que mas frecuentemente utilizamos. Si la diferencia de precio entre un disco mecánico tradicional y este es mínima, decantarse por esa tecnología SSHD es una buena opción. Si te puedes permitir comprar un disco SSD para el sistema operativo y otro tradicional para tus datos, esta sería mejor opción. En mi caso he instalado este disco junto con un SSD para darle un plus de velocidad a los juegos que no puedo instalar en el SSD por cuestiones de espacio y si que he notado una ligera mejoría respecto a mi configuración anterior.

This Hybrid disk is absolutely fantastic. Don't judge for the couple of 1 star ratings given to this product and skip buying this. This is a solid purchase decision you will make. I use this HDD for heavy R/W IOPS. I am running some clustering Software on this 2 TB and I am pretty impressed with the performance I am achieving. I have thoroughly tested this HDD performance and writing this review; not just by random opinion I made. I have attached the disk performance tests here, so check this amazing results (though I have attached image of 50MB test with single run; it is almost same with 10GB that's run for 5 times). You can go search in internet for the "CrystalDisk" images and compare the one with my attached picture. Don't yet believe, download crystaldisk and test yourself on your existing HDD and realize then. There are no sudden spikes in disk utilization. Transfer rates are up to 180 MBps, unlike regular HDDs go up to 40 MBps. That means almost 4.5x times improvement. A regular internal 2TB HDD is about 6k, so spending 3k more shouldn't hurt your pocket, you may opt for EMI, that will I surely think will satisfy in the long run. If you think 3k is more, then think about productivity you gain and confidence you build on this extra 3k. If you have any questions related to this Hybrid disk, please feel free to raise questions, I will try to answer them as per my personal experience. cheers!