So confused and unhappy

[deankenny]

So decided to get a SSD drive, but not realising the cost of them things, i found a HYBRID with fantastic reviews, the Seagate Maximus XT 750gb.

Heard crazy things about it. But after doing some benchmarks against my old HDD a 1tb Seagate Barracuda, the momentus xt performs at nearly half the score?

Am i missing something here, here is a screenshot

The top one is my old HDD in a similar PC, and bottom is now my current Momentus XT

 

[StrangleHold]

Have no idea, have had good luck with the Momentus XT drives. I know some of the newer ones are 5400 RPM drives, the older 7200RPM drives are faster. Is it running in IDE or SATA mode? Plus it takes it a few days for it to start building the cache up.

 

[spynoodle]

I don't think you'll really see a great score in benchmarks, but you should notice a performance improvement soon enough. The drives work by caching often-accessed files on the SSD portion of the drive. Benchmarks just run random reads, writes, and seeks, which will only measure the performance of the mechanical disk portion of the drive. The actual HDD part is just your average, everyday drive.

 

[jamesd1981]

ssd`s are dirt cheap now, obviously a 500gb one would be expensive, but most people buy between 120gb and 240gb and just use the ssd for windows and software.

I never have or would have a hybrid drive, because you are not really getting an ssd and not really a huge storage drive just this silly thing trying to be both.

 

[FuryRosewood]

as was said earlier, performance increases as the drive is used, the benchmark will likely not see the improvements that the drive will give you by caching frequently used information.