news 28 Posted May 17, 2014 <http://www.eteknix.com> Seagate Desktop 3.5″ 4TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review In today's market, there are countless storage options out there for you to choose for your current system or for a new build that you are planning and in general we find one of two main options being selected for the primary boot drive – this being either a hard drive which offers up large storage capacities, or a solid state drive that mainly offers up the speed. In the OEM sector, the operating system is typically installed on to a hard drive, whilst custom-built systems from the like of Overclockers UK and PC Spe[censored]t use either hard drives or the faster technology that a solid state drive has to offer based on the target audience and the price point. When we look at where we can boost the performance of a system, be it a pre-built system that is already owned, or one that is in the process of being “spec'd†up, one of the key areas where performance can be gained is through the storage medium, but even in today's market, the price per GB of storage that a SSD sees over that of a hard drive is still quite high. This premium for SSD performance can in some instances leave users with quite a dilemma; do you choose space or performance? One option that many say you should go down is to buy a SSD for the boot drive and then a secondary hard drive for the volume, but although the price of entry-level solid state products is far more affordable than it was only a year or to back, by the time you take the price of a hard drive into account, the cost is still fairly expensive for some. Naturally the other logical route that many users see is to simply go down the mechanical drive route and sacrifice performance in favour of purchase cost and the larger volumes that are on offer. URL - http://www.eteknix.com/seagate-desktop-3-5-4tb-solid-state-hybrid-drive-review/ -- Share this post Link to post