Solid State Hybrid Drive upgrade?

I need more storage on my internal drive (original 500 GB, 5400 RPM, HDD) and I would like to speed up R/W performance as well. Based on what I have researched, I am considering the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB (7500 RPM) SSHD to upgrade my MBP from OWC, but I am not committed to it. I am open to 1 TB capacity SSHD as well. Which is the most reputable/best performing SSHD currently on the market at these capacities? What do you recommend?
Any advice or suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
This is what I am currently considering:
Seagate OWCYST750LX003 DIY KIT: 750GB Momentus XT... at OWC

Don't buy the Hybrid drive, those guys don't know what they are doing.
Build yourself a Fusion drive.
Available in Mac OS X 10.8.3 and later, all software, created with a little fiddling with Terminal.
It is a combination of a small fast SSD and a BIG slow Rotating Drive. It becomes a moderately fast BIG combination drive.You CAN set one up "by hand" if you are adventurous and do not have a panic attack when faced with Terminal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive
http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/34638496292/fusion-drive-on-older-macs-yes-sinc e-apple-has
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6679/a-month-with-apples-fusion-drive
http://blog.macsales.com/17624-os-x-10-8-3-provides-fusion-drive-setup-option-fo r-non-fusion-drive-equipped-macs

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Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch ST1000LM014

Hello again, is the Macbook Pro 13-inch early 2011 compatiable with the Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch ST1000LM014 and if so, how much faster would it be than a regular HDD?

If it's no higher than 12.5 mm, then it should work (and fit) in your model.
It will work fine where the optical drive is should you decide to replace the HDD with an SSD and put the hybrid in the space occupied by the optical drive. The optical drive provides 6.0 Gb/s support.

Solid State hybrid drive

Hello i have the hp pavilion g6-1do8dx with a intel core i5 2430m processor and i was wondering if i could get this solid state hybrid drive, link below!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591

Hi,
Yes you can. It's a good choice when we can't pay for a big SSD. Still slower than SSD but better the normal HDD.
Have fun and good luck.
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Solid State Hard Drive Upgrade - Anyone?

Has anyone upgraded their original MacBook Pro to a Solid State Hard Drive? If so, how time consuming was it and what equipment did you use?
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Solid State Drive or Solid State Hybrid Drive?

I have a Mac Mini late 2012, with 1TB running Yosemite and 16GB of ram and I'm thinking of getting either a SSD or SSHD. Looking for some opinions about either one. The research I've done so far doesn't seem to find much of a difference in terms of speed between the two. Of course the price is a big factor and I also write and record a lot of music so that would be a factor too.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

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The Hybrid drive is much faster than a standard hard rive
That will depend on the definiton of "standard." If standard is the typical 5400 rpm drive that ships with a MacMini, Yes. If it's a 5400 rpm Fusion drive setup, then, No.
I replaced a 7200RPM Seagate Momentus (7200.4 version) drive with a 7200RPM Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid, the drives are mechanically identical other than the 8GB of SSD fitted to the XT. and it is a lot faster than the non hybrid version. I have not had the time to test against a fusion drive but would expect that with 128GB of SSD rather than 8GB the fusion drive would be faster.

How to Configure RAID on my Solid State Hybrid Drive

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i have an HP ENVY Sleekbook 4-1024tx. And was wondering how to configure RAID and use the SSD on my Hybrid Hard drive as chaching. Currently im using the SSD as normal storage space.

What model hard drive do you have? One of those that are actually two drives like the WD Dual:
http://www.staples.com/Western-Digital-Mobile-Single-1-Tb-Dual-Drive-25-Sata-Hard-Drive/product_IM1T...
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Solid State Hybrid Drive in 15" MBP?

I'm considering a 15" MBP...I was looking at the 500GB SSD option from the Apple Store, but $1300 is a bit too much. I was browsing around on OWC, looking for a cheaper deal, when I came across the Seagate Momentus XT, which is apparently a hybrid SSD/HDD. Has anyone had any experience with this device?
In general are SSDs worth the extra money over a 7200 RPM HDD in an MBP (taking into account battery life, seek times, spin-up or equivalent times, overall performance, etc)?
Edit: I do intend to get a system with a low-end HDD, and swap it out for the Seagate...or have it done by OWC or something. Then again, I don't use optical media much, at all, so maybe I'll use that drive...is the SuperDrive in the MBPs an ATA or SATA drive?
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Hi musicwind95,
I've been using the the smallest one since they were available - 250GB @ 7200 RPM. They all have a 4GB SSD component so I figured I'd get the cheapest one, for fear that the drive concept was junk. The 500GB model is actually $20 less at NewEgg (by the way).
Was there any difficulty in installing the drive?
It's a nice drive, the 4GB and "active" memory controller it uses to manage the SSD works pretty well. I've definitely notice some improvements in application loading. But I must say that the seek times have been pretty negligible, especially because I routinely work with larger files that vary every day. I suppose if I worked with the same set of files on a daily basis and they were all pretty tiny (less than a couple of MBs), I'd probably notice a difference.
What's the effect on boot time? My main speed concerns are boot time and app loading times...I've never really complained about opening documents, and for the most part the documents that programs work with behind the scenes (plists, config files, etc.) are pretty small anyway.
The optical drives in the newer machines are SATA. I believe the Late 2008 17" MacBook Pro was the last to use Ultra ATA/100 for the optical drive.
Thanks. Any info on the effect on battery life with two hard drives inside?

Envy 2x solid state hard drive upgrade

Is it possible to replace the 64gig drive with a larger capacity drive? If yes which mfg and models will fit physically?
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Will my Pavilion dv5224nr notebook support a solid state hard drive?

I am currently running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2005 (Reporting Version 2002); I have 1 GB RAM installed on my Pavilion dv5000; Model dv5224nr.
I am considering the followin upgrades to my system:
I would like to install a 120 GB Solid State Hard Drive,
Upgrade my Memory to 4 GB
Upgrade my Operating System to Vista Ultimate, 64-bit
Will my system support these upgrades?
Dave

Your laptop will only support a SSD drive through a 1.8" or 2.5" USB external hard drive enclosure. You cannot put one inside the laptop itself so your setup would be intresting if planning on putting a OS on a SSD. They are great for extra storage and you could still run windows off of a external but I do not suggest it as it's not worth the problems windows will most likely give you.
First thing is to get that 1GB upgraded to at least 4GB for any version of windows - these days all apps are memory hogs and 1GB is making your machine push it's limits while not being fast or burning hot. Vista is a good choice for OS and I wouldn't attempt Windows 7 on the dv5000 series due to the specs.
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Recounting My Successful Experience Upgrading My Solid State Hard Drive

I just successfully upgraded my solid state hard drive from
60 gigabytes to 256 ; the machine is a Lenovo T400s - while the upgrade is
still fairly fresh, I thought I’d share my experience – maybe someone else will
benefit – most of what I’m about to relay was provided by Zoltanthegypsy and
GMAC-R60 – I thank them again for their advice - but I will try to add some
additional thoughts based on my experience – for the most part I was able to
use the tools provided by Lenovo – my original hard drive had 3 partitions, S
(system), C ( windows + my programs & data), & Q ( Lenovo stuff like
backup and restore, the factory copy, etc.) :
Create a “factory state” copy of the machine to
DVD or CD soon after purchase – I say soon after purchase because it appears that
a minimum amount of hard disk space is required – my 60 gig was almost full and
I got a message that there wasn’t enough space – I can still make the copy but
I’ll have to move some things off temporarily – this step isn’t really related
to the upgrade but it is a good idea – Start/Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools and you’ll see
the option – and as Zoltanthegypsy has pointed out you will most likely not be
able to do this from the new hard drive after the restore operation covered
below – I haven’t proven this out but I do know that my Q space on the new
drive is smaller than before – something was lost and it’s most likely the
factory state – and so keep the old hard drive long enough to make that factory
state copy to DVD or CD.
The next step was a full backup to a Lenovo
external hard drive – it came with one partition - the external that I got from
Lenovo has a small keypad and is password enabled – this fact will come into
play further on – as GMAC-R60 noted a pop-up will appear giving the option to
create rescue media – you want to select this option so that the external will be
bootable.
When the backup is complete you want to swap hard
drives making sure to first unplug & remove the battery .
There may be other ways to do this next step but
here’s what I did – I powered on the machine and let it go through what
appeared to be a BIOS routine – note that my external was attached to the
laptop but it wasn’t activated by keying in the password – after the BIOS
routine was finished I activated the external by typing in the password and then
did a Control/Alt/Delete – the machine restarted and booted from the external –
with hindsight I probably could have connected & activated the external
before powering on but the instructions that came with the external suggested
something different which didn’t work for me .
I was now able to go into rescue and recovery
and do a complete restore to the new drive – but to my surprise the extra space
that I bought with the new drive ended up all in the Q partition – and Windows
Disk Management didn’t enable me to reallocate the space to C.
And so I purchased Disk Director 11 Home by
Acronis – a $50.00 investment in a tool that I’ll probably never use again but
I’m now able to use an $800 solid state drive rather than trying to recoup some
money via Ebay -– within minutes I was able to reclaim the space and I now have
enough C space to last the lifetime of the laptop – especially since all
pictures go on a stick & my demographic isn’t into video games .
One useful piece of information that I got from
a user on the Acronis forum was that all of the Lenovo tools like rescue and
recovery, etc. are available for download from the Lenovo website – and so if worse
came to worse I could have deleted that Q partition, stretched C using Windows
Disk Management , and then downloaded the Lenovo tools into C.
One thing I’d like to learn to do would be to
perform all the steps outlined above but without using the Lenovo tools – using
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It went something like this:
(On the stock drive)
Plugged in a blank USB HDD, and a blank USB flash drive.
- HDD formatted in NTFS, flash drive in FAT16.
Ran the recovery media creator.
- Created bootable media on flash drive, and put the recovery image on the HDD.
Once done, shutdown, removed the battery, swapped the drive for a 500GB Scorpio Black (freshly NTFS quick-formatted). USB HDD and flash drive were still attached.
Booted, and used F12 to select the flash drive for booting.
It booted into the Windows Recovery Environment and I chose the Lenovo restore factory image option at the bottom of the list.
From there on out, I just clicked through the wizard, and it restored.
Upon finishing, I unplugged all of the external media, and had it restart. It then booted into OOBE as expected.
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I am buying a new macbook pro but i want to fit my own ram memory and solid state hard drive , will apple permit this without voiding the waranty.

i am buying a new macbook pro but i want to fit my own ram memory and solid state hard drive , will apple permit this without voiding the waranty.

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Installed a cloned a 500g solid state hard drive but unable to boot. Can only hear drive spinning quietly, no chime to launch OS. Total darkness. Can anyone help? thanks in advance!

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Hi Retired Engineer,
Yes, you're right. It is the Seagate Momentus XT and it does not spin. That was just a layman's term for computer illiterate like myself. After hours of inspection & a prayer, I discovered by pulling the 4 GB memory chips out I put in, replacing the 1.5 GB back in for the memory which I upgraded 3 years ago. Chime! It works! So it is the 4 GB memory causing the problem. But why? Does that mean my Macbook Pro does not support with more memory? The fan noise is now gone which I suspect it was caused the other overheating Seagate hard drive & eventually causing the crash. However, the top bar temp indicator shows 174˙F @ 000rpm. Does that also mean the fan on the left is not working? (the right fan on the board works). Do they work simutaneously? Or left fan is just a back up?
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Solid State Hard Drive for HP Pavilion Elite m9040n

I seriously considering replacing my "C" drive with a SSD. I've upgraded to 8 G memory, replaced the video card to a Galaxy GT 610. I'm still running MS Vista Home Premium. i'm looking to upgrade to MS 8.1 and office 365. I want a faster boot time and current OS. I DONOT play "Games".
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I am partial to Samsung SSD's. I have installed one in my HP 810-135qe. Here is an EVO 840 - 250 GB:
http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MZ-7TE250BW
You can use Samsung's Data Migration tool to clone your HDD to the SSD.
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I have two hard drives in my Mac Pro 3,1. I want to add a solid state hard drive and upgrade Yosemite to it. I will eventually use my existing drive as extra storage. Does anyone know if this model of Mac Pro can support SSD drive? Also, can I mix and match normal hard drives with SSD drives? I know I will also need an adapter since SSD's are 2.5 inch. The one I am thinking about getting is the Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD). Any feedback that can confirm or deny compatibility would be appreciated.
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