Review of Seagate SSHD ST1000LX001 the high capacity hybrid drive
TechRevo 17 May 2016
For DIY or SOHO users, HDD has always been part of our lives. Be it on your PC or notebook, we always go for the fastest and higher capacity. In the past years, another new storage the SSD is catching up in capacity. Unfortunately the price is still too high and the reports of data loss remains a turn off.
Seagate pioneered this new product which is primarily a HDD but it is embedded with a fast cache powered by 32GB on NAND flash. This new product ST1000LX001 comes in the form of a 2.5″ drive and is 9.5mm thickness. It has 1GB of storage which is sufficient for large chunks of data, e.g. videos, games and multimedia files.
Does the extra NAND cache help ? Seagate utilises Adaptive Memory Technology that tracks data usage and prioritises data for faster access in the NAND flash. The good news is that the prioritisation and scheduling is all done behind the scenes. Thus, there is no requirement to install system drivers to power the NAND portion of the SSHD. Thus, the SSHD can be a direct replacement of existing HDDs on PCs, MACs, PS/4 etc after being cloned by software.
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