Introduction
Seagate recently announced and released their third generation of laptop Solid State Hybrid Drives. Originally thier hybrids carried the Momentus (laptop HDD) name forward, tacking on 'XT' to denote the on-board caching ability. The...
Conclusion:
PROS:
Excellent overall performance from a very thin form factor SSHD.
Outstanding performance when considering Cost/GB.
Caching works full time, without the need for any configuration or driver.
CONS:
Cache size is smaller...
Caching Performance
Now to the results. First a look at PCMark Vantage runs. We perform three passes on each Hybrid solution. Ideally the first pass will run at near HDD (uncached) speed, while the second and third passes will evaluate cached performance...
Internals:
Before we dive in, note the change in thickness.
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A few screws removed and we get to the goods. Shaving 2.5mm off of an already thin HDD is not an easy task, especially when you...
Today Western Digital launched their new 5mm 2.5" Blue. This model will only come in 500GB. Capacity options are limited presumably due to a single 500GB platter, which is about all you can fit into a housing that's only 5mm thick.
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Today Western Digital launched a new line of Hard Disk Drives. The Xe is very similar to their VelociRaptor, with the same 2.5"-3.5" heat sink adapter plate. The primary difference, however, is these units feature Dual Port SAS connectivity.
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Introduction
A while back, we saw OCZ undergo a major restructuring. 150+ product SKUs were removed from their lineup, leaving a solid core group of products for the company to focus on. The Vertex and Agility lines were spared, and the Vector was...
Conclusion:
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PROS:
A decently performing 20nm SSD from a long pedigree.
CONS:
Sandforce 2281 controller is becoming outclassed by newer gen Indilinx and Samsung parts.
Performance not competitive (as...
Yapt (yet another performance test) is a benchmark recommended by a pair of drive manufacturers and was incredibly difficult to locate as it hasn't been updated or used in quite some time. That doesn't make it irrelevant by any means though...
Back with the Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB review, I revised the layout of these graphs to better show SSD latency and access time. First, I have removed HDD results as they throw the scale too far to tell any meaningful difference in the SSD...
