Ok, can someone please tell why my games and apps which run from my 7200 rpm HDD (F drive) are faster too? SSD is now C drive.
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Because you have the SSD dedicated to just running your operating system. It can focus on running windows and all it's millions of background programs while your F drive strictly focuses on running and loafing your games. Instead of having one drive trying to do everything at once
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Games can load faster using HDDs, the throughput is greater. Make sure you aren't putting virtual memory on the SSD. It's possible to disable the paging file/vmem, but some applications can become unstable. This isn't because vmem is needed, it's due to bad programming. For loading in the middle of a 'level' or area in a game, SSD should always outperform. But initial loading can be slower. I'm not sure I buy that it's because windows is on the SSD too. If it's win7 or above, after boot it shouldn't need to constantly access the ssd. Of course, that's in an optimized environment without a bunch of other stuff running in the background. Games can load faster using HDDs, the throughput is greater. Make sure you aren't putting virtual memory on the SSD. It's possible to disable the paging file/vmem, but some applications can become unstable. This isn't because vmem is needed, it's due to bad programming. For loading in the middle of a 'level' or area in a game, SSD should always outperform. But initial loading can be slower. I'm not sure I buy that it's because windows is on the SSD too. If it's win7 or above, after boot it shouldn't need to constantly access the ssd. Of course, that's in an optimized environment... » Read More Games can load faster using HDDs, the throughput is greater. Make sure you aren't putting virtual memory on the SSD. It's possible to disable the paging file/vmem, but some applications can become unstable. This isn't because vmem is needed, it's due to bad programming. For loading in the middle of a 'level' or area in a game, SSD should always outperform. But initial loading can be slower. I'm not sure I buy that it's because windows is on the SSD too. If it's win7 or above, after boot it shouldn't need to constantly access the ssd. Of course, that's in an optimized environment without a bunch of other stuff running in the background. « Show Less
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The reason your programs on your hdd are running faster now has do do with your computers Cache (short term memory storage) which is now on the ssd. While what the other person said about your computers OS being on the ssd freeing up the hdd is somewhat true the biggest improvement is coming from the Cache which is now on the ssd. You can Google "Cache (computing)" which will explain it better than I can.
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I agree with Eric. I always thought the SSD was just there as a disk cache and that appears to be the way it is treated. It works and it is fast. Take a look in Control Panel at "System" and then "Device Manager" and then "Disk Drives" and you will see the SSD listed separately from the hard disk drive. (I'm running Win 8.1)
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I buy the normal product (I mean the MyDigitalSSD SC2 Super Cache 2 42mm SATA III 6G M.2 NGFF M2 SSD Solid State Drive (128GB)) but I installed it as a normal HDD Disk, no as cache disk. I install the Windows 7x64 bits and run perfect! rapid! no crashes!
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I also have a large music collection. I replaced my hard drive with an solid state drive and re-installed windows. I then replaced my cd drive with a 7200rpm hard drive on to which i placed my music and photos. Laptop now goes really fast.
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The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
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Pretty sure you won't really see a difference between any of them unless you know exactly what you're looking for i.e. an IT tech. SSD will vastly improve performance over a standard 5400/7200RPM HD. Good luck!
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Dear Mr. Harris thanQ for your enquiry and the Thoshiba 128GB Q series Pro was replaced in my above mention laptop perfectely and working well. This new SSD Drive is running more speed than my old 500 GB mechanical drive after cloning on Windows 7 OS. Now I am using my old drive as external drive for the same laptop pc.
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1TB SSD+HDD faster boot and photoshop work well! But Balance must Core i5 or i7 and 16GB Ram important work faster!! IF core i3 and 8GB Ram no possible!!
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This person was confused. You're right... SSDs cannot have a mesaurement of RPM since they don't spin. Furthermore, the ASUS EB1007P-B0040 comes with a conventional HDD and not an SSD, so unless they upgraded the drive to be an SSD, it should be a conventional 320GB HDD.
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Yes and no, I have had friends that have used ssd on there ps3 and the most they see is about 3 to 5 seconds. Which is an improvement, but not @ the cost of a ssd. Most of my other buddies just buy a 7200rpm hd or better for the same result and less cost.
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I'm not 100% sure I am answering your question correctly, however there is 1TB of HDD space on the drive, which performs at a much faster speed than a normal HDD because of the SSD sector. I am not sure of the actual space, however I do know I put this drive in my PS4 and it pretty dramatically reduced download speeds on games I play often.
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It isn't SSD, it's a SSHDD, a combination of a SSD and a HDD. faster than a HDD
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The drive you have selected here might not fit what you are looking for; this is a portable usb HDD with no external power--everything is done through the USB cable. I can figure out the RPMs, but I am pretty sure it is much lower than 7200 since its USB powered. Take a look at the WB MyBook Studio: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QGXOP2/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 -This should better fit what you are looking for in a drive. I have one of these, and it works great. The firewire is so much faster than USB 2.0--probably on par with 3.0, I don't have any 3.0 ports or devices. If you have Thunderbolt, they do make Thunderbolt variants, but they are far more expensive--thunderbolt is the fastest connection you can get, but HDD won't use the full speed bandwidth of Thunderbolt; firewire or USB 3.0 should do just fine for HDD. The only reason to get SSD is speed, and you better be prepared to spend a lot of money #1) SSD is more expensive than HDD: HDD is $1 per GB while SSD is about $2.5 per GB 2) the real catch is unless you get an external SSD with Thunderbolt connectivity there is no point in having SSD because the speed will be bottle-necked by the USB or Firewire connection--you won't get the full speed of the SSD. Thunderbolt will also drive up the price as well. If you let me know exactly what you are planning to use this drive for I could give you a better recommendation tailored to your uses, but I hope this helps you find something that will meet your needs.
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I am sorry John but I don't play games on this computer. It does seem faster than any other I have had that games were played on.
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Yes. I was disappointed. I really did not see a speed increase. My friend bought the same one and said there was. However, he upgraded to Win 8 and did clean installs. That was probably why. If want SSD speed buy an SSD drive.
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I don't know specifically, but generally speaking, an SSD is about 10 times faster than a hard drive,
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I've would suggest not installing a previously used drive (assuming you have an old 5400rpm drive lying around, hence your question). When I installed a used drive (not formatted) it crashed the system. It only seems to like new, formatted drives. Mine does happen to be a 7200rpm WD