Is the hard drive solid state or hybrid?
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this is not SSD its the usual HDD i.e it spins, there are those with an SSD drive but they cost a lot more close to US$1,000, they are available on amazon
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This particular one is a hard drive. There are others that offer solid state/hybrid.
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The hard drives are only used for storage. The OS and any plugins are stored I believe on an SSD inside the system.
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It is a typo. The Hard drive, or more specifically the Solid State Drive, is 256 Gb total as the other two answers state.
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Yes it will work, the drive is exceptional faster than a standard, the only flaw I had seen, With Windows 7, or the bios at first instal it confused my D drive as the primary rather than the C, So I had to reformat and reinstall, the second time was all good though. I like it, It works great for me, I can hear windows booting even before my screen comes up after bios boot. Considering the price v/s solid state, I will get me another hybrid. You can never go wrong with Seagate quality anyways, that is why banks prefer Seagate in there PC's.
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I don't know. The hard drive I bought was brand new. You could contact them and ask.
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I think so it is a NTF format hard disk. All digital. You can make many partition in it.
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Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a little more than twice as much for the second option (SSD and HDD) then Seagate's SSHD is a great compromise, J Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a... » Read More Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a little more than twice as much for the second option (SSD and HDD) then Seagate's SSHD is a great compromise, J « Show Less
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Hi, SSD stands for solid state drive, so I'm guessing you mean IDE (the old-style drive connectors) or SATA (the new style drive connectors). The following link from Google images shows the difference between the two types: https://www.google.com/search?q=ide+hard+drive&biw=1760&bih=854&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=bLv1VPaCPYKoogTx_ID4Dw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#imgdii=_&imgrc=C575j0AtvboOhM%253A%3BwEIyZYAk8QGCAM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpc-level.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2009%252F03%252Fsata-and-ide-hard-drives-1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpsx-scene.com%252Fforums%252Ff153%252Fsoftmodding-fat-ps2-hard-disk-drive-%25255Btutorial%25255D-116178%252F%3B814%3B604 Sorry for the URL from hell. Hope this helps.
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Unsure, but be advised that while this drive in eco friendly it pays the price in speed, this is a very slow drive. I use it for gentle backups, nothing serious or fast.
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The disk drive is Hybrid. Its in the middle of an SS drive and a standard drive. It uses SS memory as cache.
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It is a single SSHD hybrid drive - basically a cross between an SSD (8 GB) and a standard HDD (1 TB), with the 8GB SSD portion used for caching.
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SATA and EIDE is the type of CONNECTION for internal drives only, not the type of drive. External hard drives are either connected through USB or Firewire.
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It's a typo on Amazon. The drive is SATA III. Hardly any drive are SATA III anymore. Click here -> http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=1049&language;=1
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The solid state drive give you the performance. I just bought a second (same model) computer. Best I have used for games.
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Here's another question: Does the PS/3 and/or the PS/4 actually use the Solid State Hybrid technology? In other words, is the PS/3 (for example) faster using this Hybrid drive than it would be if one were to use a non-Hybrid 540 RPM drive?
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It's a typo on Amazon. The drive is SATA III. Hardly any drive are SATA III anymore. Click here -&gt; http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=1049&language=1
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Yes, there is no difference at all in that respect. I have replaced 2 hard drives recently, one in a desktop, one in an old Dell XPS laptop.