How does this product w/SSD compare in speed to a 15K RPM SAS drive?
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It steals it's lunch money, latency and performance is way better than any mechanical drive. I'm not a fan of a product that claims over 800MBPS when it doesn't support RAID0 but I'm still using this product because my HP Z600 doesn't have SATAIII.
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Based on the seagate cheetah drive specs in its description I found that this product with an ocz vertex 4 had a read write speed of about 400mbs in my 2009 Mac Pro. So personally I would suggest using this. I did however try and dig a second ssd as it said it would or could double the read/write rate to 800mbs. However I never figured it out and just stayed with one. Hope this helps.
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Still faster. An SSD will almost always smoke an HDD, no matter what RPM speed, simply because there are no moving parts. The weakness is smaller capacity (1TB is HUGE for an SSD) and cost -- much more per GB, though coming down. This should be used in conjunction with a fast HDD. Typically, your operating system goes on the SSD, while your programs and data go on the HDD.
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Ps- I went with this product before my knowledge of pcie drives. I would have chosen that over this product and an ssd. If you can afford it I think your performance will be way better.
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I'm going to replace my 500MB 7200rpm hard drive. How will this compare in speed? I'm basically at 90-93% full due to photos and music!
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I agree with what was said already, but also want to point out that you should separate data drives from the OS drive. This is a good drive to put lots of data on, an SSD that is much smaller is ideal to put most programs and the operatingsystem on. SSD's are lightening fast and not very expensive, while this drive is fast for rotating storage, but better to minimize accesses on larger drives so they last longer, and take advantage of their massive storage capability -- evenwith an NAS setup. IMHO.
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It uses a 7200 RPM drive. Version 1 used a 5900 RPM drive. Both are SATA III with 64MB cache.
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I would recommend using one on Thecus's compatibility list: http://www.thecus.com/download/compatibility/hdd/N4520SERIES_N2800_N4800_N4800Eco_N5550_N4510U_N7510_HDD_SSD_list.pdf Also consider that Enterprise rated drives will last longer and potentially perform a bit faster, but might not be worth the price bump for just backups.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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I bought a Samsung ssd 256GB and cloned the drive with the included software. Works great. Just estimating the boot time before and after by counting in my head, before it took say 40 seconds from when I saw the first bios splash screen, and after putting in the ssd it takes 6 seconds to boot.
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Yes this drive is much faster. The hitachi is limited by the SATA II 3.0 Gb/s bandwidth plus the Seagate is a Hybrid drive adding 8gb of NAND flash SSD memory just for cache vastly improving boot times and app load times.
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the drive in the heatsink apears to be an SAS (SCSI Attached Serial), however, as it is mentioned, the drive does run hot, so I would not use it without the heatsink, as the drive WILL overheat, causing catastrophic failure..
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yes.my desktop was just like yours(sata ii,hdd with 7200rpm) before i bought this ssd. after i using this, softwares like PS,Maya run much faster than ever before. u should try it just like i did. p.s. one thing u should know is other part of your mobo (cpu, ram) may restrain the performance of sdd.
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Of course it is indeed marketing hype, but for most purposes the comparison is valid. In terms of operational performance, the drive does indeed perform as well as most SSDs. The cache is used only to speed access to (generally) most-recently-used sectors, such as the file directory. For large-volume file access, such as boot-up or backup/restore, you won't get anything but regular magnetic disk performance. If you really want SSD performance with large storage capacity, you'll have to spend a lot more money!
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Speeds vary with different PC's and hardware I get around the 120mbs. Also what kind of ssd you use, that is a real picture. They do get really hot fast, not good for you're Msata. I hope that helps.
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I've cloned ssd's with it. Can't remember if used for 7.2k or 10k drives sorry.
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The SATA 3Specification allows for up to 6Gbps, this is the theoretical burst throughput and is based on a number of things. The actual speed will depend heavily on if you are using in with a Laptop that SATA connection is for SATA3, Memory, Processor and BUS speed. Not to mention this is a 5400 RPM hard drive with 64MB of memory and 8 GB of Solid State Memory. Running Disk Speed Test on a 2011 2 Ghz i7 Quad using as a stress test of 5 GB got an average of 63 MB/s Write and 59 MB/s read with a 1GB file averaging better at 83 MB/s Write and 79 MB/s Read. Appears to be faster than the average 5400 RPM hard drive. It will speed up your computer as most of the often used data will be shuffled to the SSD portion. I got this drive for about $95 replacing the upgraded 500 GB Harddrive. Once installed it boots up in nearly half the time as previous and all applications are much quicker to launch with very little lag. It was well worth the price for double the capacity and double the speed vs 3-4 times the speed and 1/8th the capacity a comparably priced SSD drive would cost.
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It is quite fast. I never ran any benchmark tests but it is considerably faster than USB2.0. Just make sure you have USB3 ports in your computer. In case you only have USB2 ports, the drive still works but with USB2 speeds only.
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I cannot talk technicalities here, but I know by personal experience it will be a very noticible difference. If you're strictly concerned with a boot time, SSD will be much faster.
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Summary: all functional tests were fine but no speed tests. Used it with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 256GB. Tried it first on a Windows 7 machine to delete the partitions. Moved it to an iMac with Mavericks and installed OSX to run externally on the drive. The machine boots and loads software much faster through the external USB port with this case/drive than from the internal 7200 RPM drive. While a SSD is faster than the hard drive, the internal SATA port is much faster than USB3. It comes with a Y cable, one for the USB signal connection and a second thinner cable for extra power. The power cable is not needed with the SSD and I suspect it would not be needed with one of the slower 2.5" hard drives.