Seagate laptop SSHD 500 GB: Offers Good Performance Boost

Seagate has introduced slew of storage drives in the country recently and laptop single sided high-density (SSHD) 500 GB drive is one of them. This one is purely meant for high performance gaming experience, to build high-end workstation or even upgrade an existing laptop and boost its capacity and speed delivery. Seagate launched its SSHD in 1 TB and 500 GB ultrathin SSHD variants.

The drive has 64 MB cache, supports SATA 6 Gb/s interface, weighs 95 grams and comes in the 2.5 inch form factor. The company has priced the drive affordably so as to encourage laptop hardware upgradation at low cost. The biggest advantage of SSHD is that you get high-speed data transfer without compromising on high storage capacity. Out of the 500 GB total storage, users can utilize 466 GB space. The drive comes with USB 3.0 port and eSATA that surely helps in fast data transfer.

In terms of testing, the 500 GB ultrathin SSHD scored 111 MB/sec (max) and 51 MB/sec (min) on HD Tune Pro. With Crystal Disk Mark, the drive gave us sequential read and write speed of 105 MB/sec and 109 MB/sec respectively. When it came to real time data transfer speed, the SSHD drive gave us speed of 97 MB/sec while transferring 24 GB assorted data which included music files, movies, documents and even game titles.