Part of their Deal of The Day. If you are looking to replace your old HDD but can't afford SSD of that size, get this SSHD instead for $199. In-stock at all MSY stores at time of posting.
Seagate 3.5" SSHD 4TB $199 @ MSY
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Using it as a bootable drive would result in a speed boost. The most regularly accessed OS files will be moved to the NAND storage. I would expect faster boot speeds than a hard disk drive, however less than a SSD.
My personal advice would be to buy a cheap ssd when they go on sale, and buy separate storage drives.Yes ….the ssd is of limited size on these so separate ssd boot is a good idea
My rig boots OS X/Win7/Linux off their own SSDs. I'm wondering whether for performance reasons this might be a decent substitute for an existing HDD that holds games not on SSD. Given the relatively anaemic flash to platter ratio on this drive, and the slow rotation speed, I'm not entirely sure there'll be an appreciable benefit.
I don't think it would provide much benefit for that use case. It only has 8gb's of NAND storage. I don't see that being enough storage for many regularly accessed game files.
If you are looking to replace your old HDD but can't afford SSD of that size, get this SSHD instead
Well, that's a pretty silly comment.
There's been news for a while about products coming to market, but any supplier actually released a 4TF SSD in Australia yet?
Your assuming they are looking for a 4TB SSD. This is priced well against the ~1TB SSD's (960GB etc) and event the ~500GB SSD's so you know if you have a need for more space then the "320GB" drive you machine came with (a popular drive size for long time) then this is a good option - with heaps of room to grow.
Seems like only limited/specific set of conditions where this product might be desirable. Perhaps a system configuration where only one drive interface/bay is available but otherwise there would likely be plenty of faster, smaller and/or more cost effective storage combinations workable/suitable.
This'd be great if you could store the file directory tree on the ssd, and then only spin up the hard drive when the file was actually needed.
woah… why don't they do this?
Anybody used one? Would a bootable OS drive benefit from this drive?
Noticed the 4tb is only a 5900 RPM speed drive compared to the faster 7200 RPM speed of the 1 and 2 TB drives. Making the 4tb slower according to the drive specifications. With the same speed rating as the ST4000DM000 4tb 64mb 5900 rpm drives.