Seagate - 1TB Internal Serial ATA III/Serial ATA II Solid State Hybrid Drive for Laptops

My 500GB internal Seagate drive quit on me after 4 years of heavy use, so I replaced it with this 1TB model. Installation was typical for a laptop HDD though there was no documentation explaining how to perform the initial setup of the drive, (formatting, partitioning, etc.). I've written a guide to installing OSX on this drive for use by others who may be having trouble with that side of the installation. https://acidyq.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/tutorial-how-to-format-a-new-hdd-for-use-with-a-macbook-pro-mid-2009/

I bought this hard drive because my original went bad. I thought it was going to be complicated to install. It was fairly simple and it works better that the original one in my Laptop.

Best bang for buck option. Would buy again. Huge upgrade over standard standard hard drive

I love this product. I have had no problems with it and it works great!

I got this drive to replace the stock 500GB drive that came with the PS4. It works great! Just make sure that when you initialize your PS4 that you download and put on a USB stick the PS4 update around 700mb in size, not the 300mb one. I spent quite awhile trying to get it to work because of this. Not a fault to the drive, just a heads up for those who want to get this for a PS4. So far everything is working great!

Well at time of this review have had it about a day and so far it works great in my desktop computer, average boot up times were around 25-35 seconds no problems at all. If you plan to buy this for your desktop computer make sure you get a 2.5 inch adapter since it's SSD size overall great product for a new upgrade.

We have two "old" (2008) MacBook laptops in the office and both of them were becoming sluggish. After looking at the price of complete replacements, I decided to try maxing out one of the laptops to see if that could extend their useful lifespan for less money. The first step was to max out the RAM. If you have to choose a single upgrade, ALWAYS choose more RAM. But, if you can afford RAM and an updated hard drive (or you've already maxed out the RAM), a hybrid drive like this is the way to go. By Hybrid, I mean that this is part FlashDrive and part old-school platter-based hard drive. The FlashDrive part (like the USB FlashDrive on your key chain, but faster) holds the most commonly accessed files on your computer, while the platters are used to store less-often used files. Since the most commonly used files on any given computer are usually Operating System files, this usually leads to a big speed bump for your computer. Especially when starting up. For the first laptop I installed this in, the boot time went from 2 minutes to about 30 seconds. The rest of the speed increases weren't quite as dramatic, but they were noticeable. I was so pleased with the results, I did the same upgrades to the other laptop, with similar results. It also doesn't hurt that, at 1TB of available space, this provides a LOT more space (about 4 times more in the case of my old MacBooks) than most standard laptop drives. That additional space means more "leg room" for programs like Photoshop that need a lot of space for the storage of temporary files.

This drive was purchased as a replacement for a dead hard drive in a laptop. I wanted to get an SSD drive, however I needed over 300 GB of space and didn't want to pay hundreds of dollars for the drive. This drive is definitely step up from a regular hard drive in terms of speed, but it is not nearly as fast as a full SSD drive (I have another computer equipped with one). Think about it this way. Your old drive is a big car, spacious, comfortable, but slow. An SSD is a super tuned sports car, extremely fast but with not much space in it. This drive is somewhere between, a 4-door sedan with a V6. Fairly spacious, fairly quick, a product of needing some of one and some of another. A compromise. My everyday computer has an SSD, and this drive does not come close to the overall speed I see from that drive. However, with this drive installed I no longer wince so much from the drop in speed. Apps open noticeably quicker, and it cut the boot time at least in half. So a moderately fast drive with decent speed. Just don't believe the hype on the box when it tells you "SSD speeds!".