Recommend me a SSHD and a cheap source of one in Ireland.

conti

I know how prominent the whold SSD changeover is these days but it's just out of my price range, and I want decent storage so that also rules them out. My compromise is trying a solid-state hybrid hard drive. The Seagate Momentus XT seems to be the most frequent result returned by Google.

The ideal one I want (750GB 7200rpm) seems to be discontinued on pretty much all of the online retailers but the 1TB 5400rpm or 500GB 5400rpm are plentiful.

Can anyone impart some wisdom on this? Are there any other better models out there?

jspuds

The XT models with a 4GB SSD are being replaced by the Thin or SSHD models with a 8GB SSD. I tried a 500GB Thin model and have to say i was impressed with how fast it was to boot and general responsiveness of Windows.

For a Irish retailer try Memoryc http://www.memoryc.com/storage/internalharddrives.html#Brands=Seagate&Form_Factor=Notebook+HDD&page=0

Worth also comparing with Dabs.ie and amazon.co.uk