Seagate 1TB SSHD - Boot, Shut Down, Resume from Sleep (Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit)
Here is the Seagate 1TB SSHD running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit on my Lenovo ThinkPad L540. Here you can see it waking up from sleep, shutting down and then doing a cold boot. As you can see, shut down speed is just a few seconds and the boot speed is about 10 seconds which is what you would expect from an SSD such as the Vertex 4 in my desktop. If you're using this SSHD and finding that Windows is booting a bit slow, just do lots of shut downs and start ups and eventually the firmware will 'learn' which files to cache to make Windows boot and shut down faster. Transfer speeds are still about 100mb/s read and write since this is a 5400 RPM HDD with an 8GB solid state cache buffer to make it an SSHD, and programs still do run as they would on a typical 5400 RPM hard disk, but as you can see Windows is so much quicker to boot and shut down and you get 1TB of space! Quick system specs: Lenovo ThinkPad L540 Intel Core i5 4200M 8GB DDR3 1600MHz 1080p display Windows 8.1 Pro x64 **YES, I know I didn't use the TrackPoint buttons correctly, but I was kind of leaning in front of the camera. Normally I wouldn't use the TrackPoint buttons in that way.** This was recorded for my L540 review which can be read at forum.thinkpads.com. For those wanting to see how this SSHD performs, this is a good indication (and yes, it's SATA 6GB/s). **No audio because this was recorded in a noisy environment and this is only a quick video to demonstrate the SSHD speed.**
Here is the Seagate 1TB SSHD running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit on my Lenovo ThinkPad L540. Here you can see it waking up from sleep, shutting down and then doing a cold boot. As you can see, shut down speed is just a few seconds and the boot speed is about 10 seconds which is what you would expect from an SSD such as the Vertex 4 in my desktop. If you're using this SSHD and finding that Windows is booting a bit slow, just do lots of shut downs and start ups and eventually the firmware will 'learn' which files to cache to make Windows boot and shut down faster. Transfer speeds are still about 100mb/s read and write since this is a 5400 RPM HDD with an 8GB solid state cache buffer to make it an SSHD, and programs still do run as they would on a typical 5400 RPM hard disk, but as you can see Windows is so much quicker to boot and shut down and you get 1TB of space! Quick system specs: Lenovo ThinkPad L540 Intel Core i5 4200M 8GB DDR3 1600MHz 1080p display Windows 8.1 Pro x64 **YES, I know I didn't use the TrackPoint buttons correctly, but I was kind of leaning in front of the camera. Normally I wouldn't use the TrackPoint buttons in that way.** This was recorded for my L540 review which can be read at forum.thinkpads.com. For those wanting to see how this SSHD performs, this is a good indication (and yes, it's SATA 6GB/s). **No audio because this was recorded in a noisy environment and this is only a quick video to demonstrate the SSHD speed.**