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Question: TrueCrypt and performance? Does anyone use TrueCrypt or other whole hard drive encryption solutions?  Work requires that we encrypt our laptop drives and I was wondering what the effect on performance would be.  Thanks!
Document: So, I've wanted a SSD for a few years now, but I can't get by with a 128gb hard drive and I don't want to pay $500 for a 256gb drive. Now though, I use my laptop as my work computer, so I can justify putting some money into it. It was getting unbearable with the boot up time. From the time I would turn my computer on to the time I could start clicking on things in firefox was about 6 and a half minutes.
Bought this drive after reading the MIXED reviews. After the install, I noticed a jumpy performance and started to enjoy the web pages popping up within milliseconds of clicking safari. After about a week of use, I started noticing the "beach ball" effect when I would open mail and other apple software titles. Then, I started deploying VMs of Windows Server 2k3, Windows 7, and other OSs. It was al down-hill from there. It has frozen a number of times and overheats constantly.
This drive rescued my Sony Vaio; it has great storage and is much faster. My only reservation is that the hard disk does (of course) still heat up, although not anywhere near as much as it did.Great product for anyone who needs the portability of a laptop that has 500GB storage but the added reliability of the solid state drive. I wonder how well it will work over time, and whether there are any disadvantages of having the disk drive constantly heating the solid state drive.
(NOTE: This start up time is based on the fact that i turned off all the useless programs that start up with your computer, like Java Updates and etc with Tune Up Utilities 2009). I would recommend this harddrive to anyone looking for reliable,fast harddrives. The SSD part of the drives really does help with start up and frequently used programs,you'll definitely will be surprised when you install and use these.Hope this review helps. Feel free to comment with any questions
My machine, an ASUS G73JH-A1, boots in just a tad over thirty seconds. The other two machines, an ASUS G53JW-XN1 as well as an ASUS G53SW-XN1, both boot up in under thirty seconds. I am impressed! Next time I buy hard drives for these machines I'm hoping Seagate will have made a 750Gb 7200rpm, 8Gb SSD (Adaptive Memory Technology) version. I would recommend this drive to anyone looking to speed up their boot, and application loading times.
I bought this hard drive to replace the stock one and my 2009 13&#34; MacBook Pro along with 8 gig of RAM. They made my computer feel like it was new. Without these products, I was considering buying a whole new laptop. That would've been much more expensive.The space and speed of this hard drive is impressive. I am very pleased with it. Not only is it larger than my original hard drive, but it is also quicker.I would highly recommend this product.
Thanks to the recent offering of PS+ games, I knew my old 60 GB just wasn't going to hold up. I already had it near full thanks to a few installed full games and some demos I just couldn't part with. I read and reread the reviews of the various drives and how well they work with the PS3. For what it's worth, I'm here to say I've had nothing but good experiences since the upgrade.
I found this drive to work very well and the speed is noticeble when booting up my laptop and running some programs. I would recommend these hybrid drives to any laptop user that it is compatible with.Thank you, Seagate and keep up the good work.
The technology is different from traditional disks so there is no way to determine if the fault is just my disk or the entire line of product. It leaves only frustration, and I can imagine how a user would feel after losing hours of precious work because of the frequent disk failure. I ended up returning the disk. I am sure you can jump wire the disk to disable the hybrid part to use as a normal hard drive, but the price tag just don't justify itself.
I have been using this drive for about 2 weeks. I did have some difficulty getting it to work on my Windows 7 based computer. I had to use a variety of disk to format it and get Windows 7 loaded on it. Once the OS was loaded, the performance improved immediately. It seems that the drive is working harder than a regular drive. My laptop fan is always on with this drive.
Answer: I have full drive encryption on mine using TrueCrypt and have no problems at all.  Just don't try to flash the drives firmware from inside Windows, because it will fail and you will damage your master boot record.  It was easily fixable with the TrueCrypt rescue disk, but it was scary at first.  When you want to flash the firmware on the drive, select the option to create a bootable CD.