Confusing Part Numbers ok, what is the difference between the STAN500100 and the ST95005620AS ? Seagate STAN500100 Momentus XT 500 GB Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive vs. Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST95005620AS-Bare DriveI'm just not seeing it. Confusing Part Numbers ok, what is the difference between the STAN500100 and the ST95005620AS ? Seagate STAN500100 Momentus XT 500 GB Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive vs. Seagate Momentus... » Read More Confusing Part Numbers ok, what is the difference between the STAN500100 and the ST95005620AS ? Seagate STAN500100 Momentus XT 500 GB Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive vs. Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST95005620AS-Bare DriveI'm just not seeing it. « Show Less
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One of the Seagate forum moderators stated that it's the same drive:http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Momentus-XT-Momentus-and/What-is-the-difference-between-the-Momentus-xt-500-G-models/m-p/85644
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Specs are the same. The STAN500100 is just the retail kit whereas the ST95005620AS is OEM/bare drive.http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_xt_retail.pdf (STAN500100)http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_xt.pdf (ST95005620AS)
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The 1.5TB model is much higher density, which could result in faster performance in some cases. I have been using the HGST 1.5 tb drive in a macbook ODD bay for a few months now and I am very happy with it. The only thing to consider for a PS4 is how important the hard drive speed is. If you care a lot about hard drive speed, then a Hybrid Drive like the Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive would be a better choice.
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The disk drive is Hybrid. Its in the middle of an SS drive and a standard drive. It uses SS memory as cache.
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I'm looking for a cable right now and just finished doing research and there is no difference in speeds between different cables. "No performance difference between SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s cables." "SATA revision designator on cables is mostly just marketing and has no bearing on the actual performance the cable can provide." http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/SATA-3Gb-s-vs-6Gb-s-Cable-Performance-Revisited-183/
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I've installed it on my PS3 (original 60GB model) and the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB works just fine. Boot times are faster and so are read times. Installs (write times) are just as fast as any other 7200RPM drive I've used before. Before you remove your old drive, reboot it and time it just to get an idea of your boot times. Then install the new drive, boot it once then reboot it again. You'll notice a nice improvement over your old drive.
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Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a little more than twice as much for the second option (SSD and HDD) then Seagate's SSHD is a great compromise, J Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a... » Read More Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a little more than twice as much for the second option (SSD and HDD) then Seagate's SSHD is a great compromise, J « Show Less
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It's SATA, and I believe SATA III (6GB/sec). At very least SATA II (3GB/sec).One thing to note is that if you intend to replace the mechanical drive with a solid state (which you should - makes these things ten times faster), you'll need a 7mm height SSD. 9.5mm won't fit.Ben
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I ordered a 500 gb hdd but received the SATA III version instead (new). I had planned to return it but decided to keep it and now have it in a RAID configuration with a SATA II version. So for me it wasn't a used drive and therefore I can't tell you history. My understanding is that it is a 5 year warranty unless expressed otherwise. Hope that helps.
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The 120GB C: drive in this dual drive should be faster than a hybrid drive since it is an actual SSD (an thus represents the theoretical max speed that a hybrid drive will reach under near-ideal circumstances). The 1TB D: drive will perform as you would expect a traditional non-hybrid hard drive would, no faster and no slower.
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if you dont want to invest much with SSD and want more space, you can buy seagate 2.5 in SSHD here: Seagate 1TB Laptop Gaming SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)
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Everything in digital world should be a power of "2" in their root ( "0" and "1"s, only two numbers). 1000 is not! So when you go from Byte to KiloByte, you have to divide the number with "1024" not "1000". Same thing happens when you go from Kilobyte to Megabyte to Gigabyte to Terabyte. When you buy a 2TB HDD you actually buy a 2000000000000byte drive and if you divide it with 1024 four times you get ~1.81TB. That's the real capacity it has! About the PS4; the drive is ~1862Gigabytes according to this calculation so if it shows 1760GB then you're missing ~102GBs of space. If PS4 reserves that amount for the system then there's nothing wrong with the drive...
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Gary,For some reason Kingston appears to be using the the DT100 designation on two very different drives. The 16GB unit looks like a 4GB Cruzer that I have. The Cruzer has a little ring that allows it to be clipped onto a lanyard. I do not see that in the picture. The more serious problem is that even when retracted, pocket lint, sand and water easily enter the contact connector area.A month or two ago I got the 8GB DT100. As I thought I could see, this maintained the traditional Kingston cartridge design. The cap can be removed and stored on the other end when the device is in use. When not in use the device can be clipped back onto your lanyard. Buy two 8GB units for a little more and stay happy longer. Gary,For some reason Kingston appears to be using the the DT100 designation on two very different drives. The 16GB unit looks like a 4GB Cruzer that I have. The Cruzer has a little ring that allows it to be clipped onto a lanyard. I do not see that in the picture. The more serious problem is that even when retracted, pocket lint, sand and water easily enter the contact connector area.A month or two ago I got the 8GB DT100. As I thought I could see, this maintained the traditional Kingston cartridge design. The cap can be removed and stored on the other end when the... » Read More Gary,For some reason Kingston appears to be using the the DT100 designation on two very different drives. The 16GB unit looks like a 4GB Cruzer that I have. The Cruzer has a little ring that allows it to be clipped onto a lanyard. I do not see that in the picture. The more serious problem is that even when retracted, pocket lint, sand and water easily enter the contact connector area.A month or two ago I got the 8GB DT100. As I thought I could see, this maintained the traditional Kingston cartridge design. The cap can be removed and stored on the other end when the device is in use. When not in use the device can be clipped back onto your lanyard. Buy two 8GB units for a little more and stay happy longer. « Show Less
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You can check out the differences here. http://store.sony.com/gsi/webstore/WFS/SNYNA-SNYUS-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductCompareService-Show?CategoryID=0AQKmUBwIA8AAAFAUJUihoTfThe size difference has different storage capacities.
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Yes, they are all compatible-use the Software down-loader offer, makes the transfer from the old discs to the Monentus Hybrid easier and quicker. Drive and access will be noticeable the more you use it. When SSD' really become cheaper and min 512 GB then go for this set-up. Seagate makes a good reliable product and stand by it.
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It has a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). What that means is that it has a combination of a regular hard drive (500GB) fused with a SSD drive (24GB). If you want to learn more about it, there is a great Wikipedia article that you can find easily by doing a Google search for hybrid drives.
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Simple Answer: To sum it up the detail answer. Companies use SI units to compute their hard drive size, 500 gigabyte is 500,000,000,000, while the computer itself uses binary to compute hard drive size, 500 gigabyte is 536,870,912,000. So if you do the math, 1 - ( 500,000,000,000 / 536,870,912,000) = 7% difference. So 500 - ( 500 * 7%(0.07) ) = 465. So the actual hard drive size would be 465 gigabyte(GB). Therefore the bigger the hard drive, the more it seems like you are losing hard drive space. Detail Answer: Most operating-system tools report capacity using the same abbreviations but actually use binary prefixes. For instance, the prefix mega-, which normally means 106 (1,000,000), in the context of data storage can mean 220 (1,048,576), which is nearly 5% more. Similar usage has been applied to prefixes of greater magnitude. This results in a discrepancy between the disk manufacturer's stated capacity and the apparent capacity of the drive when examined through most operating-system tools. The difference becomes even more noticeable for a gigabyte (7%), and again for a terabyte (9%). For a petabyte there is a 11% difference between the SI (10005) and binary (10245) definitions. For example, Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in decimal-based units to 12 or more significant digits and with binary-based units to three significant digits. Thus a disk specified by a disk manufacturer as a 30 GB disk might have its capacity reported by Windows 2000 both as "30,065,098,568 bytes" and "28.0 GB". The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and some Linux distributions use "gigabyte" for 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as (only) 28.0 GB. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive Another source to help out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Consumer_confusion
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This one has space for a 2.5 Harddisk while the other one is mSATA SSD only.