Richteralan

Really?

Bye bye Seagate. Using WD Scorpio Black anyway....

Richteralan

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原帖由 qcmadness 於 2013-3-4 11:12 發表

Seagate is going with hybrid

The hybrid is only useful in some situations. And that doesn't really warrant the higher cost.

e.g. Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid 750GB costs $160 on newegg.com

WD Scorpio Black 750GB costs $90.

And from various benchmarking that the 2nd generation Seagate Hybrid does not really improves that much over regular HDDs.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/51 ... b-hybrid-hdd-review

If I am going to spend 3 digits of money on HDD, I will buy a SSD even with less capacity. The whole hybrid concept is not going to fly in long term.

Richteralan

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原帖由 qcmadness 於 2013-3-4 11:43 發表

Maybe market segment only?
I don't think the NAND flash cost too much.

NAND chips don't cost much nowadays. Therefore I'd expect Seagate put their Hybrid HDDs around $100 or at most $120. I know they probably invested some for their caching algorithm. But still...

I found out I used to turn OFF my desktop more than once daily. Now with laptop, I seldom turn it off, maybe a few times per month, most of the time just sleep. So the decreased boot time of the hybrid doesn't mean too much to me, and I believe to most laptop users.