Seagate FireCuda 500 GB Solid State Hybrid Drive Performance SSHD – 2.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s Flash Accelerated 8 GB Cache for Gaming PC Laptop (ST500LX025)

Price: £28.99
(as of Jul 28,2024 13:07:35 UTC – Superior storage capacity. Untiring resistance. Seagate FireCuda hard drives offer an uncompromising blend of high performance and storage capacity. Combining SSD technology with an HDD platform, they are the perfect upgrade for gamers, creative professionals and PC enthusiasts.
Starts up to 5x faster than traditional 7,200 rpm hard drives
Fire Cuda combines SSD with HDD for constant performance and the storage capacity you need
Lets you install like a standard hard drive, requires no additional drivers or software
Stickers on the item can vary
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Reviewer: Brian Harrison
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ideal
Review: Purchased 2 of these one as the main drive and one as a storage (slave drive) on my new build , working fine and at a decent price

Reviewer: John Lynch
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very slow R/W, boot up and file searching
Review: I was very disappointed with this drive as it promised the best of both worlds in performance and storage. In reality, the read/write speed was very slow. PC boot up was also slow and troubles associating the drive in BIOS.Plus, one alarming thing is that on the Microsoft welcome screen to log in with a ‘nice picture’, there was what seemed to be Chinese writing for the description of the image which made me suspect there could be some malware or other embedded S/W in the boot up sector. Checking the Seagate website putting the drive details in, it seems he product is not a new item but one soured form a product (i.e. laptop) which Seagate support have confirmed.For info, the manufacturing date was Aug 2018!!.So, spend a few quid more and get an SSD or mSATA!

Reviewer: Derek W.
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not as advertised
Review: Sneaky marketingNeed to be a bit clearer with what they are sellingNOT AN SSD!

Reviewer: Christoph
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Man sollte beim Einbau sich zuerst vergewissern, welches SATA III Kabel man verwendet und es vor dem Einbau anbringen. Ich habe die Festplatte dann am Rahmen festgeschraubt.

Reviewer: roto31
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: My wife’s 2014 MacMini had the original 5400RPM HDD. After much debating on SSD vs. 7200RPM HDD vs. SSHD I went with this. I couldn’t justify the cost of an SSD but needed the speed increase. So far it’s working VERY WELL! The SSD caching for the most commonly used applications does make a big difference in startup and opening applications. It however is not an IMMEDIATE speed increase. The OS will determine what is most often accessed and move them to the SSD cache.

Reviewer: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great hard drive

Reviewer: Buckaloo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Had this hard drive now over a year as a mobile Xbox One hard drive. This thing works well is still fast enough you can’t tell it’s not a internal hard drive. Not a single issue in over a year of being used every single day. Would buy again twice and I will buy again.

Reviewer: pedro
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Super!! Schnell und schnelle Lieferung. Immer wieder

Superior storage capacity. Untiring resistance. Seagate FireCuda hard drives offer an uncompromising blend of high performance and storage capacity. Combining SSD technology with an HDD platform, they are the perfect upgrade for gamers, creative professionals and PC enthusiasts.
Starts up to 5x faster than traditional 7,200 rpm hard drives
Fire Cuda combines SSD with HDD for constant performance and the storage capacity you need
Lets you install like a standard hard drive, requires no additional drivers or software
Stickers on the item can vary