• Re: Hybrid drives

    From JEDIDIAH@110:300/11 to All on Mon May 19 15:53:06 2014
    On 2014-05-18, Carpe Diem <carpe.diem@news.com> wrote:
    I have absolutely no iea what is going on or how to fix it other than to
    install a fresh copy of Win 7 but as there is a lot of apps on it would
    clearly prefer not to :)

    More than a year ago, I installed a Seagate hybrid drive in the PC of a friend of mine. No problems at all BUT we did a clean install.
    I have no idea what is going on. Sorry, I cannot help you.


    I have a hybrid drive running on a Win7 laptop and it's not exhibited
    any sort of problems.

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  • From Vince Coen@110:300/11 to JEDIDIAH on Mon May 19 21:45:10 2014
    Hello JEDIDIAH and others who responded!

    Monday May 19 2014 16:53, JEDIDIAH wrote to All:

    On 2014-05-18, Carpe Diem <carpe.diem@news.com> wrote:
    I have absolutely no iea what is going on or how to fix it other
    than to install a fresh copy of Win 7 but as there is a lot of apps
    on it would clearly prefer not to :)

    More than a year ago, I installed a Seagate hybrid drive in the PC
    of a friend of mine. No problems at all BUT we did a clean install.
    I have no idea what is going on. Sorry, I cannot help you.


    I have a hybrid drive running on a Win7 laptop and it's not
    exhibited any sort of problems.

    OK, I am getting the impression that it is NOT a HDD issue but Windows.

    Currently downloading SP1 and going to try that along with a grab from a command batch file shown (but not producing results so far).

    I am going off Windows

    again




    Vince



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  • From Vince Coen@110:300/11 to All on Fri May 16 19:46:21 2014
    Hello All!

    Has anyone installed a Seagate Hydrid drive e.g., 1Tb with 8Gb SSD built
    in.

    Is it working correctly?

    I am having problems both for Linux and Windows 7.

    Get silly little problems that do not happen with a HDD.

    Vince



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  • From =?UTF-8?B?cGhpbG/CoA==?=@110:300/11 to All on Fri May 30 12:05:35 2014
    On 05/19/2014 04:45 PM, Vince Coen wrote:
    Hello JEDIDIAH and others who responded!

    Monday May 19 2014 16:53, JEDIDIAH wrote to All:

    > On 2014-05-18, Carpe Diem <carpe.diem@news.com> wrote:
    >>> I have absolutely no iea what is going on or how to fix it other
    >>> than to install a fresh copy of Win 7 but as there is a lot of apps
    >>> on it would clearly prefer not to :)
    >>>
    >> More than a year ago, I installed a Seagate hybrid drive in the PC
    >> of a friend of mine. No problems at all BUT we did a clean install.
    >> I have no idea what is going on. Sorry, I cannot help you.
    >>

    > I have a hybrid drive running on a Win7 laptop and it's not
    > exhibited any sort of problems.

    OK, I am getting the impression that it is NOT a HDD issue but Windows.

    Currently downloading SP1 and going to try that along with a grab from a command batch file shown (but not producing results so far).

    I am going off Windows

    again




    Vince





    I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and my hybrid works with no problems...

    OTOH: It does not seem to be any faster than a standard drive.

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  • From Robert Nichols@110:300/11 to All on Sat May 17 01:01:17 2014
    On 05/16/2014 02:46 PM, Vince Coen wrote:
    Has anyone installed a Seagate Hydrid drive e.g., 1Tb with 8Gb SSD built
    in.

    Is it working correctly?

    I am having problems both for Linux and Windows 7.

    Get silly little problems that do not happen with a HDD.

    I have a 500GB one in my laptop -- dual boot Linux and Windows 7.
    Never had a problem with it. Quite noticeably faster than a plain,
    spinning drive.

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  • From Carpe Diem@110:300/11 to All on Sat May 17 06:43:34 2014
    Vince Coen schreef op 16/05/2014 21:46:
    Hello All!

    Has anyone installed a Seagate Hydrid drive e.g., 1Tb with 8Gb SSD built
    in.

    Is it working correctly?

    I am having problems both for Linux and Windows 7.

    Get silly little problems that do not happen with a HDD.

    Vince


    What kind op problems?


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  • From Vince Coen@110:300/11 to Carpe Diem on Sat May 17 22:03:10 2014
    Hello Carpe!

    Saturday May 17 2014 07:43, Carpe Diem wrote to All:

    Vince Coen schreef op 16/05/2014 21:46:
    Hello All!

    Has anyone installed a Seagate Hydrid drive e.g., 1Tb with 8Gb SSD
    built in.

    Is it working correctly?

    I am having problems both for Linux and Windows 7.

    Get silly little problems that do not happen with a HDD.

    Vince


    What kind op problems?

    Current one is that updates fail with no update service active when it is active and have tried to disable and then enable but with no affect.

    Wierdly enough using the original HDD a 160Gb (without any such problems) I cloned it to the Hybrid and booted it then checked for updates but it
    reported the same. Even more weird tried the same from the original HDD to
    a new SDD (256Gb) and it did the same.

    I have absolutely no iea what is going on or how to fix it other than to install a fresh copy of Win 7 but as there is a lot of apps on it would
    clearly prefer not to :)



    Vince



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  • From Carpe Diem@110:300/11 to All on Sun May 18 04:57:57 2014
    I have absolutely no iea what is going on or how to fix it other than to install a fresh copy of Win 7 but as there is a lot of apps on it would clearly prefer not to :)

    More than a year ago, I installed a Seagate hybrid drive in the PC of a
    friend of mine. No problems at all BUT we did a clean install.
    I have no idea what is going on. Sorry, I cannot help you.


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  • From Poutnik@110:300/11 to All on Sun Jun 1 09:07:28 2014

    philo  posted Fri, 30 May 2014 07:05:35 -0500


    I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and my hybrid works with no problems...
    OTOH: It does not seem to be any faster than a standard drive.

    Perhaps there is good enough Ubuntu read access to disk
    even without hybrid SSD Read caching.

    Better system = smaller difference.

    Perhaps Ubuntu has good enough own Read caching,
    or reads less than Windows,
    or disk is fast enough.

    Linux installation is often much smaller than Windows
    so lower ratio for access/tranfer times.

    Linux file systems are also not so crazy as NTFS,
    able to create several thousands fragments for a file.


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