Seagate's hybrid drives result in disappointing reviews
Posted on 14/10/07 20:06 by Seán Byrne                             
Seagate's hybrid drives result in disappointing reviews

It looks like despite the claims about improved Windows Vista system performance with Seagate's new hybrid hard drives, so far they have managed to result in disappointing reviews.  The drives ship in capacities of 80GB, 120GB and 160GB with 256MB of flash to take advantage of Vista's ReadyDrive. 

The first impressions the drives have left are those "empty promise" feelings going by this DailyTech report.  Melissa Johnson, a product manager for Seagate reckons this issue is caused by the use of incompatible BIOS and Operating System drivers.

When buying a new PC or laptop or upgrading an existing one for better performance, instead of spending extra on a hybrid drive, I would suggest getting a traditional hard drive and spending the extra on more RAM.

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By ron spencer, Mon 15 Oct 2007 17:06
why use Vista....are there any reasons really????? Wink
By BitRate, Tue 16 Oct 2007 03:28
Vista is a resource pig and these hard drives won't do it justice.
By hanns, Sun 21 Oct 2007 01:17
Vista os no more of a resource pig than XP. I've been running Vista now for about 8 months or so and with the same processes running that I hand with XP. And guess what? It uses 8% less ram than XP did while doing the same dang thing.
By BitRate, Mon 22 Oct 2007 04:02
Your deluding yourself if you think Vista is not a resource pig. It uses at least 512MB RAM for its working set and is constantly indexing and probing user activity. This has a detrimental affect on system responsiveness.

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