SSHD on 2010 MacPro

Question

Using MacPro 2010, Mavericks up to date, 27" Apple screen
Three weeks ago, interested by the performances of Seagate Desktop SSHD 2000GB, I installed one of them in place of 2TB "classic" HD,
Immediately, performaces of the Mac where much better, but, since about 2 weeks, progressively, I've been facing to several little dysfunctions: softwares, cameras, mails, impossibility to shutdown Mac, ..... it was really a mess to work with it !
After several tests, I came back this morning to my 2TB prévious HD and everythings went allright immediately !
For the time being, I'm unable to allocate the problems to the Mac system, or Seagate SSHD, or ........
So I'm interested to know if some other people have got the same problems ?
Effectiveley, it should be a contextual problem with my materials (Hards and softs)
Or simply a defective disk...
Thanks !
Message was edited by: weavernoes
Message was edited by: weavernoes

Answer 1

Wading through this review of your drive, performance on things like booting should be noticeably improved and some other things should be snappy too, which is what you've found. However, given the very small SS portion of the drive, it just can't compete with a true SSD in terms of overall speed. But it should continue to work, albeit like a regular HD, which it sounds like it's not doing.
Unless you've installed something in those 2 weeks which is not on your HD that could be causing the problems, I'd suggest checking the SMART status in Disk Utility to see if it's failing. Even if it's not, see if Seagate will honor its warranty and provide a replacement. Just be sure to wipe it clean first.
But if you're looking for reliably improved performance, The hatter's advice will get you there.