SSHD are affordable hybrid solution for Laptop and Netbooks. SSD’s are bit costly due to slow development procedure. High performance flash chips are used that provide faster data read and write compare to a regular internal hard drive. Internal hard drive with moving physical components is prone to damage via shock. Head damage is common among all. SSHD does not remove those threats, but it helps us to gain more performance. Internal Hard drive mostly depend on the rpm for data read and write speed. The higher rpm, higher speed you will get but also the power consumption and vibration rises with that. There is a constant moving motor in between that rotates the platter. So if the drive has a low rpm then your data read and write speed will be slow and also it will affect the performance of an operating system. At that point going for a SSD is not reasonable.
Because in this we are not getting two things. First budget price and second large storage space. SSD’s are developing quiet slowly and so the price is getting lower. It might still take years, for SSD to replace the regular hard drive completely. So manufacturers came up with a unique solution of building a hybrid hard drive. This hard drive has features of a SSD. It is like a regular drive only, but it is more portable and powerful. Called as SSHD. In this article we are going to checkout a Laptop Think SSHD by Seagate. It offers 500GB Space and SATA 6GB/s interface. Ideal for backup and work. The drive comes with regular SATA port widely used in many systems. It can be an ideal solution for laptop, portable external hard drive, internal hard drive, etc.
The price of this hard drive is around Rs.5,300 excluding taxes. It is a kind of good upgrade for laptop and netbook where space is limited and adding more storage is always costly. It comes in two storage models. One is 500GB and the second is 320GB. We had already reviewed a similar model which has 7mm Ultra think design. So I had linked the review below. In this we are going to discuss about a 5mm design which is thinner and smaller in size. But has the same kind of features.
Specification:
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Cache: 16MB
- Seek Average Read (ms): <13
- Seek Average Write (ms): <15
- Max Data Transfer Rate: 600 Mb/s
- Bytes Per Sector: 512/4096
- Load/Unload Cycle: 600,000
- Operating Temperature: 0 to 60
- Non Operating Temperature: -40 to 70
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