http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...148591&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-22-148-591-_-Product
I stumbled across this and it caught my attention. One of the primary things holding me back from jumping on the SSD bandwagon has been cost for capacity. I am not a huge fan of having a speed primary drive and a secondary storage drive. I overwhelmingly prefer to have 1 drive that is both speed and capacity. If something fails, well that is what I have a network storage drive for. Anyhow As mentioned I like the SSD performance, but I just can't swallow the price for the capacity I need. Anything under 500gb is just simply too small for my application.
I wanted to know if anyone had any experience with these seagate hybrids. I am really interested in if the performance step up for them is that significant from 7200rpm. Optimally I would like to know how they compare against 10krpm raptor drives as well. Perhaps this would make for some interesting HardOCP review material? The price on these is really about perfect if they perform as advertised. A couple of these in a raid 0 seem to offer some serious potential for very little out of pocket.
edit: before anyones asks if I read the reviews, the answer is yes. However I take newegg reviews with a huge grain of salt as honestly most people who post tend to praise a product or slam a product for some of the most asinine reasons.
I stumbled across this and it caught my attention. One of the primary things holding me back from jumping on the SSD bandwagon has been cost for capacity. I am not a huge fan of having a speed primary drive and a secondary storage drive. I overwhelmingly prefer to have 1 drive that is both speed and capacity. If something fails, well that is what I have a network storage drive for. Anyhow As mentioned I like the SSD performance, but I just can't swallow the price for the capacity I need. Anything under 500gb is just simply too small for my application.
I wanted to know if anyone had any experience with these seagate hybrids. I am really interested in if the performance step up for them is that significant from 7200rpm. Optimally I would like to know how they compare against 10krpm raptor drives as well. Perhaps this would make for some interesting HardOCP review material? The price on these is really about perfect if they perform as advertised. A couple of these in a raid 0 seem to offer some serious potential for very little out of pocket.
edit: before anyones asks if I read the reviews, the answer is yes. However I take newegg reviews with a huge grain of salt as honestly most people who post tend to praise a product or slam a product for some of the most asinine reasons.