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Wow, okay lots of replies and I'll address them here. First, a lot of people are talking about using two drives. On Windows this model does not work. Moving pr
by ENOTTY 16y ago
Wow, okay lots of replies and I'll address them here.
First, a lot of people are talking about using two drives. On Windows this model does not work. Moving programs from C: to D: will often screw up registry settings and other crap like that. On OSX and Linux, thanks to a single root filesystem and symlinks, this model might work better. Furthermore, I have to manage moving files back and forth. This is a problem algorithms should take care of and no OS does this yet.
Secondly, a lot of people are saying the Momentus benchmarks are terrible. This seems obvious. Any standard benchmark does not take advantage of a large read cache. You have to use some sector of data over and over again in order for the drive's algorithms to put it into the SSD cache. Read real world benchmarks here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd/2 http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi...