is 8GB enough cell size ? With the thousands of read/writes W7 does per hour, does the drive learn to use the platters for these ? I have 4GB ram now, and my HD is still busy all the time. I am ready to buy.

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Megax · Accepted Answer

If you mean the 8GB SDD it is good enough according to the manufacturer's website, they do explain that you don't need more SDD cache as for the programs you usually open at all times are not that big, as for me this is not working very well as I have a lot of installed programs that I use everyday for video and photo production. This is great for a student or the common office.

Answered by Megax 11 years ago

Bugsy · Answer

This drive has intelligence built in to manage cache for fast disk operations. The SSD portion operates at memory speeds to your motherboard so unless you are continually reading and writing huge files you will see a big boost in read/write performance. If you have the ability to add RAM to your system it should reduce the reliance upon disk based memory caching. Regardless this hybrid drive will provide a significant improvement for you.

Answered by Bugsy 10 years ago

DavidBSacramento · Answer

8GB is adequate - your 4GB RAM is not. I would double that for Win7 or MacOS X.

BBusertoo · Answer

If you have not tuned your laptop for bloatware, use MSCONFIG to eliminate unnecessary programs. Mos SW providers have update programs in the background consuming cpu and i/o cycles. Each manufacturer loads their "consumer assistance" bloatware too. I eliminate all the bloatware so laptop will operate better. I also eliminate the MS search indexing feature. A SSD hybrid HD will help operate the laptop faster based on my experience. When I rebuild a HD, I install a partition for paging as well forcing the OS to use specific platters for a single function.
Hope this helps

Theshadoz · Answer

no

Mcse1 · Answer

You need to optimize Win7 to work properly with an SSD or hybrid drive. If using a hybrid goigle trim with win7 and prefetch settings. For an ssd add in turning off page file or virtual memory and prefetch and trim settings

Answered by Mcse1 10 years ago

Jeremy · Answer

You might want to open your task manager and find out what is using all of your RAM. 4GB should be plenty for Windows 7 so there has to be something else that's causing all the hard drive activity. I would run a scan with your antivirus program as well to see if it picks anything up. As for the drive, it will observe which data you use most frequently and cache it on the SSD portion of the drive for quicker access.

Answered by Jeremy 10 years ago

zbhatti · Answer

increase the RAM before you buy the HDD. Let Windows set the Pagefile settings. this might stop the drive from constantly in busy mode.

NikonTimeMachine · Answer

This drive is great, i have it in my 2012 Macbook pro 13" with a 2.9 i7. I do a lot of photo and video editing and it holds up very well. I use 8 GBs of Ram, i would suggest upgrading to at least 8 GBs or even 16 GBs if you want some better performance in your computer, but this drive will improve your speeds for booting and program launches.

Answered by NikonTimeMachine 12 years ago

Ericmadeg487 · Answer

It is used a a cache drive so any little bits of info used on a regular basis will be stored in the ssd. Upgrading the ram will help also

Alaskantwo · Answer

The platters dont learn jack, they simply store data (1s & 0s) long term. RAM is also storage, but your processor tries to determine what info you're going to use next and places it in RAM for faster access. Also, whatever you have stored on your desktop is also loaded into RAM on the assumtion that you'll need it. So, if you have 3Gb of "stuff" on your desktop, then your machine really only has 1Gb to work with and that maybe why your HD is always working i.e. whatever you're doing requires more than 1Gb of RAM so it's having to access your HD for the data. Keep you desktop as clean as possible and see if that helps. If not, you might need more RAM or depending on the age of your HD, it might be going south. Make sure you have some type of external HD or cloud service to back up your data.

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