Seagate Desktop SSHD SATA600 ST-DX001 Series

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 10 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

5
Average:

0
Bad:

2

Pros:

Adaptive Memory Technology showed gains for all workload types.
Priced to compete directly with standard 7,200RPM hard drives.
2-3x performance gains over standard 7,200RPM HDDs when measuring 5GB hot data.

Cons:

Only 8GB NAND cache.
Currently tops out at 2TB capacity.

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Last revision on September 7, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Adaptive Memory Technology showed gains for all workload types
Priced to compete directly with standard 7,200RPM hard drives
2-3x performance gains over standard 7,200RPM HDDs when measuring 5GB hot data

Reviewers Didn't Like

Only 8GB NAND cache
Currently tops out at 2TB capacity
Cached performance is well under recent generation budget SSDs

Expert reviews and ratings

A great-value hybrid drive, but its speeds weren’t as impressive as we’d...

By Expert Reviews on March 22, 2015

100

It's not easy to get excited about Hard Drives in general, but when you've got an HDD with an internal SSD in one package, with storage up to 4TB, like the, Seagate 2TB SSHD (ST2000DX001), things do get a little more interesting… Quite simply put the...

By pcGameware UK on March 06, 2015

100

It's clear the Seagate SSHD system works, and works well, and even when compared to a pure SSD-based system, the results aren't too shabby. The drives add a reasonably low premium over the price of a fast mechanical drive, so you can expect plenty of...

By PC Authority on May 19, 2014

Welcome to Myce's review of the Seagate ST2000DX001 2TB Desktop Solid State Hybrid Drive (‘SSHD').We recently reviewed Toshiba's latest SSHD offerings for mobile devices, in a 2.5in form factor, and found them to be impressive performers. Today, we...

By MyCE on February 13, 2014

The Seagate 2TB SSHD is priced at Rs 9,600, which offers an impressive cost-per-GB of Rs 5.15. You even get a mix of both capacity and speed and is ideal for those who want the best of both worlds. If you are on a tight budget and cannot afford an SSD +...

By FirstPost on December 12, 2013

There's a middle ground between the high-capacity, relatively cheap hard drive and the lower capacity and more expensive SSD that has previously been occupied by the Seagate Barracuda XT. This hybrid drive adds a quantity of flash memory to a...

By micromart.co.uk on December 11, 2013

The Seagate Desktop SSHD Hybrid is a way to give hard drive users a modest bump in speed, but don't be sidetracked by SSD claims. Hybrid technology today certainly extends hard drive performance, but comes nowhere close to the "SSD Performance" purported by Seagate.

By StorageReview on October 16, 2013

A few months ago, my friend asked me what is the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta. "Well," I explained. "It is a political party that is neither progressive nor conservative." While I am not here to debate politics here on APH Networks...

By APH Networks on July 31, 2015

The Seagate Desktop SSHD is a good performing hybrid drive that offers consumers 8GB of NAND flash for increased overall system performance as well as a high capacity point.Seagate 4TB SSHD at AmazonDiscuss this...

By StorageReview on July 02, 2015

Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however,...

By uk.hardware.info on June 16, 2015

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