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You don't choose what gets put in the SSD part of the hybrid drive. It automatically puts the most accessed files in there (OS components and such) if I'm not mistaken. Not to mention you don't actually load the entire installed file size of the program you're using, your computer just loads the components it needs from the drive when they're called on into RAM.
Mostly.
Eh looked up some HD Tune benches comparing regular 7200RPM drives of today to the raptor and then some SSD. Raptor doesn't seem to be that much better than standard drives but SSD is much better. Didn't see any benches for the hybrid drives you have any videos or benches I don't know about showing it in action?
All I have is a personal testimonial from some guy on Notebook Review that put one in his Alienware M15x with the same specs as mine. His boots 10 seconds faster give or take a few seconds. He also says it does load most commonly used programs a lot faster than the 7,200 rpm drives that the laptop ships with.
We're running different software configurations though, so it's not the best benchmark.
And this is the laptop version of the drive obviously, the desktop one probably performs even better.
Going to build a mid range micro atx machine preferably AMD based. I already have everything in place except the Motherboard, CPU and ram. Any advice?
I have the Momentus XT Hybrid 500gb. I can open Firefox in under a minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rook
The loading times for photoshop and other commonly used programs are immensely increased. It saves most used files to the SSD portion (startup files, commonly used programs) + the speed of a 7200 rpm drive for everything else.
I would sure hope you can open firefox in under a minute, it opens in under 5 seconds on both my pc's lol... Also I think you meant greatly DEcreased load times haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
Yeah lol. Not a single thing in that post pointed towards increased performance hahaha.
40 seconds from after pressing the power button. Compared to ~4 minutes after pressing the power button on my old 5400 rpm drive with no other changes. I tried a 7200 rpm drive while I was waiting for the hybrid to arrive and it was still over a minute to open firefox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
Oh, you're talking about from start up - opening Firefox.
We all thought it was taking you minutes to launch Firefox from the desktop.
I obviously wasn't. What kind of modern hardware would take that long to do anything, let alone an HDD/SDD drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
e: 1337 posts you say? Looks like this will be my last post on this forum unless Bungie's next game is released on PC.