Review on 💾 Seagate 7200RPM Desktop SATA Hard Drive with Enhanced Cache by Nate Mims

Well I got away with what they say: SSD speed without the expense of an SSD or capacity limitations. I had a 1T SSD as my primary drive (windows 7 desktop) and as I hoped it made everything much faster including booting and basic operations. But 1T fills up fast, and SSDs HATE when there's little or no space left - they retaliate in truly horrible and unpredictable ways. So how do you get enough data from c: drive to make it happy again? Take a second disk and put all my data on it. I received this 4T hybrid drive as a D: drive, put my data on it, and left all programs on the C: drive (plus a "default phantom user" since Windows wants to find at least one user on the drive, on activated) and I don't see any noticeable difference between the c: (SSD) and d: (SSHD) drive speeds. I didn't do any objective tests - I was only interested in my subjective reaction. And I was VERY happy with it. If I needed a new C: drive, I would grab one of those and forget about the cost of an SSD. However, make sure you connect it to a SATA 6 controller and not a SATA 3 controller. This way you get all the speed benefits - there's no point in plugging a fast drive into a slow controller!