1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:11,599 This video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance K70 and K95. These 2 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:15,120 fully mechanical keyboards are designed for performance gaming. Visit 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:19,039 Corsair.com/benancegaming to learn more. Welcome to my unbagging 4 00:00:17,119 --> 00:00:22,560 of something that I personally think is really important and really interesting, 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,600 but you might disagree, but I mean, come on. At this point, you clicked on the 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:33,040 video. You might as well watch it, right? This is the creatively named 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:35,200 Seagate Desktop SSHD 2000 Gigabyte. 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:40,320 Really like whoever names their products uh they get an award for being very 9 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:44,960 practical. Um so what it is is it is their first desktop hybrid drive. So it 10 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:50,320 contains in spite of its normal 3 and 12 in form factor and normal SATA 36 Gbit 11 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:54,000 per second interface a regular mechanical 3 and 12 in drive. So, it's 12 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:57,680 available in 1 TB or two terabyte. Although there a little birdie told me 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,960 there might be a a higher capacity one later. Although saying that there might 14 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:04,159 be a higher capacity hard drive later is about like saying the sun might rise. 15 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,799 Like they really are about the same probability because if the sun stopped rising then all the hard drives would 16 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:14,799 probably go away anyway. Um so it contains a mechanical hard drive as well 17 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,880 as an SSD inside that completely doesn't 18 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:20,560 need to be configured at all. So, the 8 gig SSD, and that's seems pretty small, 19 00:01:19,119 --> 00:01:25,280 but more on that in a moment, dynamically finds the data that you use 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:29,680 most often and caches it in there for much, much faster reads. Now, there's a 21 00:01:28,159 --> 00:01:34,240 little bit of a writing strategy as well, but not nearly to the same extent 22 00:01:31,759 --> 00:01:37,680 as it uses the SSD for reads, which is really important, particularly for 23 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:41,920 things like your operating system. So, if you're getting used to devices like 24 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:46,000 smartphones and tablets and even ultrabooks to a lesser extent that run 25 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,640 strictly off of flash, you're probably getting used to a level of 26 00:01:47,119 --> 00:01:52,799 responsiveness that just can't be achieved through pure mechanical. That's 27 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,920 where the SSD comes in. So even though it's quite small, you're able to cache 28 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,840 the things that are going to make your system feel really responsive, but 29 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:04,479 you're able to have that large capacity backup for things like large games that 30 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:08,000 you want to install or large programs like, I don't know, you know, Adobe 31 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:11,200 Suite or or things like that. And it really does give sort of the best of 32 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:15,440 both worlds. In addition to performance, you're also going to potentially 33 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,080 make the device last longer. So there's a few different ways of looking at this. 34 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:22,080 Number one is you're adding more points of failure when you have SSD as well as 35 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:25,599 mechanical. Number two, though, is that you're making them inherently last 36 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:30,400 longer because SSDs don't like being written to. Eventually, they will die. 37 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,200 Um, but what happens is because you're not always writing things directly to 38 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,879 the SSD, you're actually writing to the hard drive, the SSD only gets written to 39 00:02:35,519 --> 00:02:41,280 when it's something that you use very, very frequently. And SSDs don't get worn 40 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,280 out by reading from them. Okay. Then there's the mechanical drive that gets 41 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,640 worn out about equally from reading and writing. So, you have to write it to it 42 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:51,920 regardless. But what if you could read all of your most frequently used data 43 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:55,599 from the SSD, which doesn't really wear out? See where I'm going with this? So, 44 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:59,200 you could potentially get a longevity benefit as well. Now, this 45 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,959 implementation is not the beall and endall of a hybrid solution. So, if you 46 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:08,080 have two separate drives, you can use Intel SRT to use an SSD to cache a hard 47 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:12,480 drive completely separately. And there are actually drives being manufactured 48 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:16,159 with a single interface that have two separately addressable drives inside 49 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:20,959 them. This is one of the benefits of say a 36 GB per second, right? Because 50 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,519 you've got tons of bandwidth there as long as you're not talking about 51 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,200 extremely high performance like enthusiast grade SSDs. There are other 52 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:32,000 implementations as well. I mean, Microsoft's working on ways to have the 53 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:38,000 OS handle some of the SSD caching itself. And Intel, um, Seagate and 54 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:43,200 Western Digital worked on an extension to the SATA 3 IO that is going to allow 55 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:47,440 the drives themselves, which really do know more about what's going on inside 56 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:51,040 them than the OS necessarily does, to start providing hints to the OS about 57 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:55,440 what to cache and when and where. So, the future is extremely exciting. And I 58 00:03:53,440 --> 00:04:01,760 believe that as much as I use solid state only in my desktop machines, I do 59 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,599 use mechanical for mass storage over the 60 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:07,840 network. So as much as I believe in solid state and love it, I do believe 61 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:13,120 that a hybrid is going to be the future, at least for the near to midterm. So 62 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:20,400 guys, do check this out. It's the Seagate Desktop SSHD. 63 00:04:16,479 --> 00:04:21,759 The most interesting name ever. Um, and 64 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:26,080 don't forget to subscribe to Lines Tech Tips for unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Leave a like if you 65 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:29,680 like the video, leave a dislike if you dislike the video, and leave a comment 66 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:32,680 if you think my nose is too big for my face.