Need help with an SSHD.

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

Hiya all,

I'm buying this 1TB Seagate SSHD on Tuesday, and I need to learn a few things about it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ELAVIQ0/?tag=pcp0f-21

Does the SSD "configure" itself automatically? I know the basics of how the SSHD works, but do I have to select the files that are loaded by the SSD for each program or does it "learn" by itself?

Is it considerably faster than my stuffed and incredibly slow 120GB WD Green 5400RPM drive? I'm fed up of waiting 2 mins (I'm not exaggerating) to load into a game when all my friends with SSDs have loaded in within 5 seconds.

Once I clone my current hard drive over to this one, will it work fine or do I have to reactivate windows and all that stuff?

Woody

USAFRet · Apr 5, 2015

With an SSHD, there is nothing to 'configure'. The drive firmware does it all. You don't get to select what goes where.

Faster than your current drive? Oh yes. Not as fast as a regular SSD, but faster than what you have.

Can you clone things over? Probably. But if your current install has 'issues'...you'll just be transporting those issues to the new drive.

green giant 2 · Apr 5, 2015

i wouldnt clone at all do a fresh install sheds new light on things and the sshd will has 992gb mechanical space and an 8gb ssd in it, the ssd will cache the most recent files so that they load the fastest, so if you want a game to load faster this may not be the solution becasue 8gbs is definately not enough to cache game unless its like garrys mod or a small indie you wont be loading bf4 off of it thats for sure

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

I have no issues with my WD drive. It's still going strong after 10 years of use, I defragment it often and have looked after it over the years...it's just small, and really slow. Actually, it might not be a Caviar Green, looking at how old it is. I just call it that because of how slow it is!

I don't have an install disk, the hard drive is from an even older PC than my (used to be) prebuilt, some Dell Dimension, and a friend installed Win7 for me. Looks like cloning is the only way. Need to buy some blank DVDs...

Woody

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

green giant 2 :

As far as I know the drive only puts the currently important files in the SSD to boot, meaning faster load times. It's not supposed to hold entire games, just files on commonly used programs that help speed up the booting process.

Woody

green giant 2 · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

green giant 2 :

As far as I know the drive only puts the currently important files in the SSD to boot, meaning faster load times. It's not supposed to hold entire games, just files on commonly used programs that help speed up the booting process.

Woody

thats what i mentioned, caching the recent files so that load quickest

USAFRet · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

Not 'important files', but rather 'most used'. It does not know or care what you may think is important.
And by 'files'.....little individual files, not a whole application or OS.

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

Duh it seems that I can't read, sorry.

So is there any more about this cloning thing or are we all sorted?

Woody

USAFRet · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

Well.....recommendations on cloning depends on the condition of your current install.
If there are problems with it, you'll just be porting those problems to a new drive.

Same issues, they just happen faster.

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

Well green giant here is sorting me out a home brewed install disk, so cheers for that. Can I just ring up Windows and say "I'm replacing my hard drive, can I haz my key working again please?".

Woody

green giant 2 · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

you can do this over the phone and they should reactivate it for you.

USAFRet · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

With just a new drive, there should be no issues. At most, the activation will fail, and it will prompt you to activate via the phone robot. Takes maybe 5 minutes. Pretty painless.

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

Sweet. I don't have to lie to them, do I? I really don't lie very well!

Woody

green giant 2 · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

not at all youll be fine you can even do it via their support chat if youre not confident on the phone

USAFRet · Apr 5, 2015

Woody1999 :

With the phone activation, you don't even talk to a human. Hence my comment 'phone robot'.
It's an automated thing.

green giant 2 · Apr 5, 2015

USAFRet :

i need to go back to school and learn how to read.

Woody1999 · Apr 5, 2015

Great. Thanks lads!

Woody

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