Testseek.com have collected 70 expert reviews of the Seagate 2.5 inch Laptop Thin SSHD SATA600 ST-LM000 Series and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate 2.5 inch Laptop Thin SSHD SATA600 ST-LM000 Series.
June 2013
(80%)
70 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(87%)
231 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
80010070
The editors liked
Excellent overall performance from a very thin form factor SSHD
Outstanding performance when considering Cost/GB
Caching works full time
Without the need for any configuration or driver
Slimmer "Thin" 7mm design works with more devices
Inexpensive starting price
18% faster in HTPC workloads and 54% faster in Gaming workloads than previous generation model
Better performance than standard 5400RPM and 7200RPM hard drives
Better performance than previous generation Seagate SSHD
Not all that more expensive than a standard 500GB hard drive
8GB MLC Nand Flash
7mm height
Build Quality
Ideal For OS Use (SSD-Like Performance For Cached Files)
Size Factor (2.5"/7mm)
Temperatures
Power
The Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD offers noticeably faster boot time and better overall performance than regular hard drives at a much lower cost than solid-state drives
Offers significant speed up for repeated tasks
Such as loading programs
Fair price assuming the usage pattern matches its strengths
The editors didn't like
Cache size is smaller than we'd like to see in a 3rd generation Hybrid.
Still limited to 8GB NAND flash
5
400RPM platter component offers lower uncached data transfer speeds
Would be interesting to see what a higher rotational speed and more NAND flash memory could do for you
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Mid-End Overall Performance (Un-Cached)
The Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD's data transfer speed is slow. It comes with just 8GB of flash memory and spins at only 5
400rpm
Makes loud ticking noises at times
Speed benefits offered by hybrid design are limited to repeated tasks
From a purely technological standpoint, the Laptop Thin SSHD is an impressive accomplishment. Seagate has stuffed 500GB of mechanical storage and 8GB of flash memory into a 7-mm notebook drive that's slim enough to make a supermodel jealous. The NAND is ...
In the end everything comes down to user experience. Most of a typical user’s experience hinges on quick boot times and fast application launching. Both of these things are accomplished in SSD like fashion when you are running a Seagate Laptop Thin SSH...
Slimmer "Thin" 7mm design works with more devices, Inexpensive starting price, 18% faster in HTPC workloads and 54% faster in Gaming workloads than previous generation model
Still limited to 8GB NAND flash, 5,400RPM platter component offers lower uncached data transfer speeds
Seagate's 500GB SSHD Thin drive at 7mm is a wallet-friendly alternative for users seeking new technology that provides low-power consumption, serious performance gains over conventional HDDs when in cache, and overall solid value per gigabyte. ...
The Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD offers noticeably faster boot time and better overall performance than regular hard drives at a much lower cost than solid-state drives
The Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD's data transfer speed is slow. It comes with just 8GB of flash memory and spins at only 5,400rpm
If you're looking for SSD-like performance at just a fraction of the cost, the Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD offers some gratification.
Published: 2015-06-19, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
Do we have a full picture of the performance of the Seagate Laptop SSHD ST500LM000 500GB based on the benchmark results alone? Not exactly. But seeing how it performs in real life, along with the statistics we have collected in the last seven pages or so...
The idea of combining the best of the SSD and hard drive worlds into a single product is a novel one, but few products have truly taken advantage of the possibilities this approach offers. Seagate’s approach has thus far been the closest to absolute su...
I must admit for the longest time I was a holdout when it came to solid state drives. While all of my friends and even co-workers were building super PCs with SSD's, I was chugging along on my dual 7200.11 RAID 0 setup thinking those SSD's couldn't b...
The Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD offers noticeably faster boot time and better overall performance than regular hard drives at a much lower cost than solid-state drives
The Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD's data transfer speed is slow. It comes with just 8GB of flash memory and spins at only 5,400rpm
If you're looking for SSD-like performance at just a fraction of the cost, the Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD offers some gratification....
Abstract: Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however, beca...
