1TB 3.5 SATA Internal Solid State Hybrid Desktop Hard Drive SSHD FireCuda SSD

Seagate  FireCuda  1 TB  SATA  3.5 Inch Drive  InternalSee more details at eBay – scorpion2002 »Capacity1 Tb2 TbReviews4.51,012 reviews5 star758 reviews4 star157 reviews3 star32 reviews2 star10 reviews1 star55 reviewsOkay for a console upgradeMarch 12, 2019I bought an SSHD recently and have been singularly unimpressed by it's performance. As a primarily desktop hard drive these things are horrible (especially if you have a lot of programs that start up with Windows) at times booting my PC was taking over half an hour. Using a new clean windows installation doesn t improve matters a great deal either and neither does resetting your OS. The problem with these drives is that solid state partition is too small to actually fit all your boot files on so the firmware is constantly arguing with itself about what files should be cached on it resulting in stupidly long load times and long moments in which the PC appears to be doing nothing at all (in fact the only way you can tell that your PC is still working is the hard drive light … MoreI bought an SSHD recently and have been singularly unimpressed by it's performance. As a primarily desktop hard drive these things are horrible (especially if you have a lot of programs that start up with Windows) at times booting my PC was taking over half an hour. Using a new clean windows installation doesn t improve matters a great deal either and neither does resetting your OS. The problem with these drives is that solid state partition is too small to actually fit all your boot files on so the firmware is constantly arguing with itself about what files should be cached on it resulting in stupidly long load times and long moments in which the PC appears to be doing nothing at all (in fact the only way you can tell that your PC is still working is the hard drive light); you can sort of temporarily alleviate this issue by shutting down and rebooting repeatedly, but then you start actually using your PC again and the problem is back in