There's nothing wrong with this SSD drive by Seagate, and if you can get it at the right price (GB storage to price ratio) in comparison to other SSD drives, go for it.
This is a good drive with solid performance though definitely not at the top of the pack, but it's a great price
I got the 1TB on sale for $175 - a great price with free Prime 2-day shipping.
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Connecting the same setup to a Windows 10 PC (reformatting the drive for Windows) yielded slightly better performance, but still significantly less than expected
and it also has a special flash-speed function that reportedly will boost the performance up to 560 MB/s (90,000 IOPS)
This is a good drive with solid performance though definitely not at the top of the pack, but it's a great price
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As prices for SSD's have dropped, I have moved to an entirely HDD free system in my own PC, and as I build PC's for friends and family, I only use SSD's
Until then, this provides a solid storage system for important data and transport.
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Deep Space and Mass effect 1 game did not have the frame rate issues it had on a traditional hard drive
Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas frame rates sucked even with the SSD because; the game engine they used was so criminally over-extended that nothing short of a better game engine could save them
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Capacity:500GB
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Style:SSD Only
There's no need to let your PC or Mac slow you down
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A global leader in storage solutions for nearly four decades, Seagate designed the BarraCuda SSD to provide speedy boot-up, quick file access, and rapid application load times
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