Hybrid Hard Drives Vs Traditional SATA HDD

Usually I have no problem making comparisons especially with the help of OWC and Crucial's websites and, of course reading here. But trying to get some kind of data to compare the new Seagate and Toshiba 1.0 TB Hybrid hard drives has been difficult. In the only recent discussion I could find here the OP stated there was only a small difference in price between the SSD and Hybrid which is not true at all when comparing same size drives. SSD above 120GB are simply not affordable. Both Toshiba and Seagate have 1.0 TB Hybrid drives which are huge compared to the 250 GB SATA 5400 RPM HD in my Macbook Model 7,1 and priced at just a bit over $100. True Solid State Drives close to that size are over $600 and traditional SATA 5400 and 7200 RPM around $75.
I don't really need an internal HD that large. I can afford the 120 GB True SSD at $99, but when OWC is making statements like "Solid State Performance" when advertising their Hybrids I have to look at what my money will buy. OWC claims SSD are 30-100X faster than traditional SATA 5400 rotational drives. I don't see any numbers being thrown around about the Hybrids anywhere. Are they twice as fast as what I have? 5X? What exactly does OWC mean by "faster" anyway?
My important data that I can't afford to lose all are documents and PDF files and takes up less than 1 GB of space. This data is backed up at Mozy and on 100 year disks. I also have a 250 GB internal HD that I made into an external and that data is also there and that's where I have a bootable back up clone that I have CCC update every week or so. Mozy updates daily and I make a new CD once a month. Looking at what's on my current in use internal hard drive, I could easily move videos,movies etc. to an external. I could easily get by with 90GB if I did this.
So, I plan on getting a 2 TB external for movies and such. If I get a 120 GB SSD I'd then have 2 250 GB externals to supplement the 2 TB external which is what I'm planning unless someone can tell me the Hybrids are anywhere near the performance of the SSD or greatly out perform what I have now.
Any advice appreciated
Thanks

I know this is somewhat out of date, However i find it somewhat wrong that no one as even bothered to even say Sod off or Hello.
Anyway your SSDHD are around 4 x to 5 Times faster than a normal HDD.
They will store your data into the Nano Flash and load it as fast as a SSD, Now unless you're doing some High end video editing then the Hybrid is a good option, because if you're just a standard end user then you're not really going to do much data swapping, though high end video editing Then i would go full SSD.
Hope that help, even though it's out of date & you sure have an new drive by now lol.
Regards

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root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
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Linux version 2.6.30-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.4.0 20090630 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 20 11:20:32 UTC 2009
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
NSC Geode by NSC
Cyrix CyrixInstead
Centaur CentaurHauls
Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Transmeta TransmetaCPU
UMC UMC UMC UMC
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002ffd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ffd0000 - 000000002ffde000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ffde000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.3 present.
AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
last_pfn = 0x2ffd0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
Scanning 0 areas for low memory corruption
modified physical RAM map:
modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
modified: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000002ffd0000 (usable)
modified: 000000002ffd0000 - 000000002ffde000 (ACPI data)
modified: 000000002ffde000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
modified: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000002ffd0000
RAMDISK: 2ff21000 - 2ffbf7a5
ACPI: RSDP 000f6ad0 00014 (v00 ACPIAM)
ACPI: RSDT 2ffd0000 0002C (v01 A M I OEMRSDT 09000521 MSFT 00000097)
ACPI: FACP 2ffd0200 00084 (v02 A M I OEMFACP 09000521 MSFT 00000097)
ACPI: DSDT 2ffd0390 03270 (v01 MiniV MiniV080 00000080 INTL 02002026)
ACPI: FACS 2ffde000 00040
ACPI: OEMB 2ffde040 00046 (v01 A M I AMI_OEM 09000521 MSFT 00000097)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
767MB LOWMEM available.
mapped low ram: 0 - 2ffd0000
low ram: 0 - 2ffd0000
node 0 low ram: 00000000 - 2ffd0000
node 0 bootmap 00011000 - 00016ffc
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 002ffd0000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
#1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
#2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
#3 [0000100000 - 0000626e44] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 0000626e44]
#4 [002ff21000 - 002ffbf7a5] RAMDISK ==> [002ff21000 - 002ffbf7a5]
#5 [0000099c00 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [0000099c00 - 0000100000]
#6 [0000627000 - 0000629230] BRK ==> [0000627000 - 0000629230]
#7 [0000010000 - 0000011000] PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000011000]
#8 [0000011000 - 0000017000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000011000 - 0000017000]
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0002ffd0
HighMem 0x0002ffd0 -> 0x0002ffd0
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0002ffd0
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cec00000)
NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Embedded 11 pages at c1606000, static data 24444 bytes
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 194911
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b ro console=ttyS0,115200
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
NR_IRQS:512
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Detected 1326.894 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
Memory: 772708k/786240k available (2905k kernel code, 12976k reserved, 1052k data, 392k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf07d0000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 240 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xeffd0000 ( 767 MB)
.init : 0xc04e3000 - 0xc0545000 ( 392 kB)
.data : 0xc03d647f - 0xc04dd6a8 (1052 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03d647f (2905 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2654.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=4422980)
Security Framework initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line)
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 10k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20090320
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 8c20)
weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
SMP disabled
Brought up 1 CPUs
Total of 1 processors activated (2654.36 BogoMIPS).
net_namespace: 1056 bytes
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
pci 0000:00:07.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:07.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:10.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:10.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:10.1: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:10.1: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:10.2: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:10.2: PME# disabled
HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try hpet=force boot option
pci 0000:00:11.0: quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by vt8235 PM
pci 0000:00:11.0: quirk: region 0400-040f claimed by vt8235 SMB
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 *15)
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
system 00:05: ioport range 0xe900-0xe90f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xea00-0xea0f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xeb00-0xeb2f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xec00-0xec7f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xe800-0xe83f has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x3e0-0x3e7 has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x400-0x41f could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x100000-0x2fffffff could not be reserved
pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: disabled
pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: 0xddd00000-0xdfdfffff
pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000d5c00000-0x000000ddbfffff
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Unpacking initramfs...
Freeing initrd memory: 633k freed
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(1248948860.509:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
msgmni has been set to 1510
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci 0000:00:01.0: disabling DAC on VIA PCI bridge
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:06: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
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cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
registered taskstats version 1
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Freeing unused kernel memory: 392k freed
:: Loading Initramfs
:: Running Hook [udev]
:: Loading udev...SCSI subsystem initialized
pata_acpi 0000:00:11.1: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
pata_acpi 0000:00:11.1: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
done.
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b ...
Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device ids for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b'
ERROR: Unable to detect or create root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b'
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'reboot' to reboot
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo *' instead
If the device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b' gets created while you are here,
try adding 'rootdelay=10' or higher to the kernel command-line
ramfs$
I think what is happening is that the kernel does not have the drivers for the IDE controller on the board for the CLE266/VT8235. Does this seem accurrate? And if so, how can I verify the current kernel config, then compile a kernel with everything else Arch needs to boot properly? I am familiar with the old means of setting up a kernel using the 'make menuconfig; make; make modules_install' etc method.
Thanks for the help in advance!

Hi, not sure if this is still causing you an issue, but I just ran into the same problem.
For me, I have a Sharp PC=MM1110 which has no cd drive and doesn't like to boot from USB. To get Arch installed on it, I had to attach it to another PC (via it's docking cradle, which lets it show up as a USB hard drive), then boot the other PC from an Arch install cd and select the USB hdd for all of the partitioning etc.
When I rebooted after the installation, the Sharp wouldn't boot.
First, I had to edit the grub menu entry to point to (hd0,0), at which point I got the error listed in the first post... Failed to parse block device id's.
If i booted into fallback mode, it booted without a problem.
For me, the solution to finally get it working was to boot into fallback mode, remount the filesystem as r/w, and run mkinitcpio -g filename to rebuild the kernel. Once completed all I had to do was point grub to the new kernel image and it booted ok.
Hope this is useful to someone

Hard drive not recognized in HDD bay.

Randomly, my laptop gave me the spinny pinwheel of death when I opened it, and upon restart, I got the good old folder with a "?" indicating there was no OS. Naturally, I booted up in network recovery, and low and behold, my SSD was not in the Disk utility list. I made an adjustment some time ago where I removed my optical drive, and installed the old HDD that came with the computer in it's place. I switched the drives, so that the SSD was where the optical drive should be, and the HDD in the drive bay. Upon startup, the computer booted up as usual from the SSD, and the HDD was not recognized. So from there I conlcuded that both the SSD and HDD are working correctly without failure. After putting the drives back where they originally were (HHD in optical bay, and SSD in Drive bay), and I booted up holding the option key, The SSD and recovery drive were there, but I received a prohibited sign (circle with slash) after a minute. Now it is not recognizing the drive again. I'm not sure whats going on, anyone hav any input?
Thanks

You have a faulty hard drive to logic board cable. Replace that and you should be fine and the drive put in the main bay should show up.

Hard drive problems - cant repair HDD

Hi!
Ealier today I left my MacBook Pro to download som things while I was going uot for a while. And when I came back and woke up the display it wouldent wake properly. just running the screensaver with the "I'm thinking"-rainbowdisk for a mouse icon for like 5-10min. So I did a hard reset, and started i up again. only to get a grey screen and a flashing folder with a questionmark. So I started searching the Apple support pages, tried reseting the vram (or whats it called (the cmd+opt+r+p reset command)), tried the shift+cmd+v reset command (nothing happened) and lastly tried booting from the installdisk. That worked, but when I first tried to run the "startup disk" the hard drive dosent show. so I ran the disk utility, and found it only showing the DVD-drive. then I ran the systemprofiler to look for the HDD, and found it in the S-ATA folder. so I tried to run the disk utility againg, but still just the DVD-drive showing. then, suddenly, after some random clicking at the different menu buttons, the hard drive is showing. and so I mark it and press verify. it verifies but I still cant press any of the "verify disk premissions", "repair disk permissions", "verify disk" or "repair disk" buttons in the "first aid" window. but I thought maybe the "startup disk" utility now also could see the HDD as disk utility did, but no..
I'm getting kind of frustrated now, and would appriciate any help I can get!

This is a "canned" set of directions I wrote, so I realize you've coverd some of it:
Boot from install disc (insert disc > restart > immediately hold down the c key and keep holding it until you see “Preparing Installation”) > at first screen select the language and click Continue > click on the Utilities Menu in the menu bar > select Disk Utility > select your HD in the panel on the left side (the name of the HD’s manufacturer and the model number, usually the top item in the list) > look at the bottom of the main window next to S.M.A.R.T. status and see if it says “Verified” (good) or something more ominous like “Failing.”
If S.M.A.R.T. status is "Verified," run Repair Disk > click Repair Disk at bottom of main window. Run this at least twice, and keep running it until it says “appears ok” twice in a row. If that doesn’t happen, you may need a stronger utility (such as DriveGenius, TechToolPro, DiskWarrior) or if the directory is damaged beyond repair, you may need to reinstall the OS, or you may have a damaged HD which will need to be replaced (repair utilities can only repair the directory structure, not the HD itself). When this is finished, quit Disk Utility, quit the installer, and restart. Once booted normally, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions.
Do you have a backup? Do you have any data that needs to be saved?

Changing a ATA hard drive to a SATA hard drive

I have a TouchSmart tx2-1275dx and bought a SATA hard drive. Connector pins are same config, but different connector. Can a SATA be used in place of the old ATA..If so how to connect? Thanks!

An adapter for this does exist.
However I seriousely doubt that you could install it in your notebook whilst
the adapter is attached.
Aside from that I couldnt tell you that it would actually work.
I would suggest buying a PATA drive as it was designed for.
If you want to check on the adapter, I know that Frys sells them.
I have a store locally, you may also or check their Website.
GL

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