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Did anyone else notice that the performance of the Seagate Momentus XT is awful compared to all the solid state drives? It's only about 20% faster than a regul
by seunosewa 16y ago
Did anyone else notice that the performance of the Seagate Momentus XT is awful compared to all the solid state drives? It's only about 20% faster than a regular hard disk drive (the SSDs are about 1000% faster, according to Jeff's own chart). It's an awful, awful recommendation. If you want the performance of a solid state drive, buy a solid state drive.
- AndrewDucker 16y agoIt's apparently not much faster than a physical drive for random data traffic, but much faster for loading frequently opened files and booting the PC.
- weaksauce 16y agoIt's basically like the cache in your cpu now except it's a bit smarter about storing what goes in the flash memory. L1 = the 32MB RAM L2 = 4GB Flash finally the 500GB HD
- Splines 16y agoIt'd be nice if there existed a thing that acted like the SSD part of the Seagate Momentus XT. That way I could hybrid-ize my existing drives and have greater flexibility for future upgrades.
- wipt 16y agoCheck out ARC, ZFS has a implementation of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Replacement_Cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Replacement_Cache
- wipt 16y agoCheck out ARC, ZFS has a implementation of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Replacement_Cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Replacement_Cache
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- tghw 16y agoIf you happen to be on Windows Vista or Windows 7, ReadyBoost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readyboost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readyboost) comes close. It helps cache files, as well as providing a faster place for virtual memory to be stored. Vista's implementation of RB had some...oddities, but it seems they fixed it in Win 7.
- nitrogen 16y agoThere's the HDDBOOST, from SilverStone, though it almost sounds like you were just begging someone to link to it ;) Some benchmarks: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=silverstone_hddboost_re&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=silve...
- Splines 16y agoHrm. I was hoping that such a device would perform better. Yeah, I was hoping someone would link something. In this case, I didn't really know what I was looking for. What do you call a doohickey that does that sort of thing?
- nitrogen 16y agoI'm not personally aware of any specific name for it, but I used search terms in the neighborhood of "SSD hybrid adapter" to find the Phoronix article.