Seagate 500GB 2.5 inch Laptop Solid State Hybrid Drive

Great quality for good price + no problems with the ssd price per gb. Worked perfectly on first boot - as expected. I fitted it on an old Acer 5750g laptop, and sshd is much faster than the old hdd. Quicker system start, waking it up from the sleep mode is nearly instant, helped Serato DJ a bit as well (especially when downloading tracks in the background and playing music at the same time). I do not think I couldget much more from buying an SSD drive for such an old laptop, and for much better price SSHD made all the difference I needed. The only issue I've had, was when I wanted all of my mp3 files from a certain library (+/- 300 songs) to have their context data indexed (need to be able to search for data contained in IDtags) - took a while to process, surprisingly long I'd say. Still - likely be an issue with the OS rather than hardware itself, and I only do it every now and then - definitely a 5 star product.

My hard drive packed in on my (typically, just out of warranty) Acer aspire laptop so instead of buying a new laptop i thought no...that's what they want you to do try repairing the old one, so after a chat with an IT colleague, he pointed me in this direction so I bought it......... Then after watching various you tube vids I fitted it myself (not hard at all) downloaded windows 7 etc for free (dont pay for back up disc off the manufacturer there's no need as Microsoft directs you to servers that will let you download it with instructions etc you just need to have your licence key for after the install that should be on your computer somewhere, then get your specific drivers etc from the manufacturers website again for free for the specific hardware you have) and OMG I was back in business. I run the computer for music production ie Fruity Studio and Serato and also for Photography so Photoshop etc. Granted... I do NOT use this for the internet (learned my lesson years ago) i have loads of other devices that do that (phone and tablet etc) so in doing so I have no antivirus on it (no need as long as you know you can trust the stuff your putting on it, which should be the case anyway) and it is set up for performance not visual, but that's what my last one was like.... but this hard drive is lightning fast compared to the stock one. I mean it takes about 5 seconds to boot, so that's from switching on until its usable and the processors are free. and less to power down. I've only seen that on a mac-book before now.All for 50 odd pound and a bit of research......... Well worth it in my world.

Bought this to replace a 3 year old WD in my Acer laptop. Basically the laptop packed up so I thought it was the HD only to be told it was the MB. Even with a 3 year warranty Acer tried wiggling out of their responsibilities. Tip - Never buy an Acer! Anyway I couldn't afford a new laptop at the time so found one on Ebay for £129.99 refurbished with dual Core 3 Gb Ram, Windows 7, SD card reader, 6 month warranty that should hopefully tide me over. It's actually pretty decent for the price & the seller has been great - that's all they sell, based in Portsmouth. Problem is it only came with an 80GB HDD & I had this one so used Macrium Reflect to clone that onto this 500GB Seagate. Having never done anything like this before was a bit nervous but it was very easy. Took about 15 minutes to clone the 80 GB with Windows 7 onto this and another 15 to fit as had to remove it again once tested to put the remaining screws in the caddy. I didn't have to rename this drive to C. The only thing I did have to do was increase the partition in disk manager. There is now 442GB Free of 465GB total. It is too early to tell if boot up times are increased - only got the laptop & fitted the drive yesterday but the freeware programmes I am using, Infranview & Open Office & Adobe Reader open up instantly in 1 second or less. That appears to be a definite improvement. I will install Photoshop Elements & Nero & see how quick they are. I paid £60 for the 500GB version last month and realise I could have got a normal HDD with twice the size for cheaper but like the theory behind this technology. 4 Stars & recommended but could possibly be improved once I have done some more tests. *** Update 1/ 10 / 13 - It takes 14.64 seconds to shutdown & 57.72 seconds from switch on to Google homepage. Has quite a fair bit of software on it now but not loads of files - 436GB now. Software opens instantly on double click. No doubt SSDs will be the only drives within 5 years but at the moment these are a great compromise. A great and relatively cheap upgrade. Will keep an eye on it and update progress & longevity when I have had it longer!

Bought for an old dell laptop as hard drive was failing. Works as expected, quiet, fast and laptop is now back to good working order. Bit fiddly to get in the caddy but a bit of patience and now in perfectly. Good value for money if you need a decent replacement.

I'm a great fan of Seagate discs having been a data storage "expert" for most of my working career. This was bought to replace another 500Gb disc of another brand that was throwing up random read / write errors after about a year's use. I had not noticed that this was a hybrid drive, so it is even better value for money than I thought. I suppose the only consideration is not to have a power fail while writing data as there is a risk of it being cached and not written to the magnetic media, but the system it is used in is rarely switched off and relies on Windows power management. So far, it has worked well. Basically, you can't really go wrong when buying from one of the "big" names - and now there doesn't even seem to be a price premium

Took longer than expected to arrive! Easy to install, Took ablout 10 minutes. This Hybrid Drive is slimmer than the Toshiba Drive which was installed. I had to partition it before installing Windows 10 Professional, This was installed from a USB stick. Took me about 3 minutes how to perform the Partition, But quite straightforward. Had Windows 10 installed in about 30 minutes. You don't hear this drive in operation, Also it's faster to access the data due to it being partly SSD. Good quality Drive! Hopefully it will give many years of use. 5 Stars!

This is the 3rd generation of hybrid drive from Seagate - after having had the 1st generation, Momentus XT, in my MacBook for the past couple of years I was running out of space and had read some good reviews of this version, which said it was even quicker on startup and just generally. After having installed it a few days ago, I would say the reviews are spot on. The boot time is very good - around 8-10 seconds, and the programs open quickly ... generally my computer feels very quick. I noticed the difference, even though I was already using a hybrid drive, and if you've been using a traditional hard drive then this will DEFINITELY give you a real improvement in performance. For anyone thinking about buying a new computer because there current one feels slow, I'd recommend buying one of these drives and asking a techie friend to install it and transfer your data across - why spend £500-800 on a new computer, when you can spend £60 and breathe life back into your old one!

Used this product as a replacement for my ageing notebook a Dell Vostro 1520, after a few months the disk sporadically stopped working. It appeared to have lost its seating, re-seating the disk sometimes got it back to life. The disk is a hybrid and is not as fast as I would have hoped it to be. For an older machine i would suggest using a SSD instead of a HSSD. Alert: I have now returned the hard disk back to the seller. The seller mentioned in initial email that there would be a refund provided. Causing me to go through the process of purchasing another a new Disk and going to through re-installation, while waiting for the refund. The seller is now claiming the policy is no refund after 3 months and replacement is what they can provide, leaving me out of pocket. I am still waiting for this to be resolved! Watch this spacae. The matter is not resolved. I neither have a replacement nor refund. Infact amazon customer support mislead me into thinking a refund was possible before abandoning the case. Feels more like Amazon is deceitful and covering the seller. Stopped chasing as no response from seller now. Very wrong.