Taxes will be charged only for those states in which the shipper has a bricks and morter presence If you were getting it from the UK there would be a 20%vat export tax ...T
Just states "Amazon" as the shipper. They are very good at hiding exactly where or who this drive comes from. I've gotten things from Amazon without having to pay a tax, So I can not tell if there provider is in my state or not
I think you will enjoy the Firecuda , that big ssd cache means that common things get loaded very fast have had 1Tb working on an E5430 for the past year works great ...T
Just to be clear, the advantage of having SSHD is that you can combine some of SSD speed with the HDD but it will never have the speed of a real SSD. someone can confirm this ?
Right on. Those things that are commonly used, like I said, get put in the cache and load from the ssd , very quickly all other stuff on the hdd part of the drive loads at hdd speed , so it has the speed of an ssd when you really need it, like when the operating system ( o/s) is being loaded and hdd speed when you load something you seldom use. ...T
Sorry about that, I should not have used the shorthand o/s for operating system I edited the post to clarify thanks s1ave77 for reducing the confusion ...T
Please don't be sorry my friend, you could not know that. What about write/read speed ? and transfer speed ? is it equal to write/read speed and transfer speed of a real SSD ? to be clear, when you said "all other stuff on the hdd part of the drive loads at hdd speed", what other stuff are you talking about ?
Well I can't compare a real SSD because I've never had one, but boot time with the Firecuda on an E5430 is about 35sec where with a 5400 hdd it's between 60 and 90 secs. The operating system gets used all the time so it's stored in the ssd cache Other stuff like the program you use only once a month never gets stored in the cache, but if you start to use it regularly parts of it get put in the cache. This is analogous to what the firecuda ssd/hdd does for you. It enables you to pull out a program or a piece of the program quickly do the calculations and put it back You don't have to consciously manage the process though, that's done by the system. PS Whizkidraj's first video by NCIX explains it nicely, but I didn't see that before I posted mine ...T
An X170 board with an i5 Skylake cpu, using a Samsung 960 NVMe SSD boots to a usable windows in about 6 seconds.
yes that's what i was about to say, i've been told from some friends who have SSD that they need only 10 seconds to access windows session when starting the machine. That's quite impressive.
SSD drive's are nice options to have, you can get more done quicker because your not waiting for apps to open