05-23-2016, 11:58 AM
Ok, I was not aware of that. In hardware terms it sounds exactly like a WD dual drive. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7682/the-wd-black2-review
In functionality as far as the user is concerned, it is more like a SSHD. The minor difference in how things are stored will be managed by the OS not solely the drive firmware. I can see that having possible benefits in some situations, but still it is no pure SSD and a compromise between performance, capacity and cost.
To correct myself earlier, the Seagate SSHD I have actually has 8 GB of SSD, not the 2GB that I stated.
And back to Reinier's problem, I wouldn't think a WD green 2TB would be that much of a bottleneck. I have had several of these myself. It isn't the fastest disk, but not slow enough to make a difference. I suspect something else is going on here, and to move forward we have to work out what that is. Actually, we can quickly confirm or rule out the disk. Save the file to disk, and also SSD. Do you notice a difference in speed? If not, the bottleneck is elsewhere.
In functionality as far as the user is concerned, it is more like a SSHD. The minor difference in how things are stored will be managed by the OS not solely the drive firmware. I can see that having possible benefits in some situations, but still it is no pure SSD and a compromise between performance, capacity and cost.
To correct myself earlier, the Seagate SSHD I have actually has 8 GB of SSD, not the 2GB that I stated.
And back to Reinier's problem, I wouldn't think a WD green 2TB would be that much of a bottleneck. I have had several of these myself. It isn't the fastest disk, but not slow enough to make a difference. I suspect something else is going on here, and to move forward we have to work out what that is. Actually, we can quickly confirm or rule out the disk. Save the file to disk, and also SSD. Do you notice a difference in speed? If not, the bottleneck is elsewhere.
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