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Love it! This was perfect for my storage needs. I wanted expanded storage to save my PC game installs to but did not want to shell out the cost of a high capacity SSD. This Seagate 2TB FireCuda Hybrid HDD/SSD, while not as fast as a straight SSD, still has read and write speeds well above those of standard HDD's. Using the Samsung Magician software that came with my Samsung 840 Pro SSD, I was able to record read and write speeds between my standard HDD and this new Seagate 2TB FireCude Hybrid HDD/SSD. Listed below are the results showing the average speed of both hard drives based on 6 performance benchmark test ran on each drive: Seagate 2TB FireCude 3.5-Inch HDD/SSD 6 Run Avg Results: Sequential Read(MB/s) - 94 MB/s Sequential Write(MB/s) - 163 MB/s Random Read(IOPS) - 591 MB/s Random Write(IOPS) - 1167 MB/s Seagate 1TB Barracuda 3.5-inch HDD 6 Run Avg Results: Sequential Read(MB/s) - 82 MB/s Sequential Write(MB/s) - 163 MB/s Random Read(IOPS) - 299 MB/s Random Write(IOPS) - 242 MB/s As the results show, the biggest performance increase comes with Random Read/Write Speeds with almost double the Random Read Speed and almost 5 times the Random Write Speed. Sequential Read speeds are marginally faster with the hybrid drive vs the normal HDD; however, the Hybrid drive Sequential Read speeds were showed that it could reach speeds as high as 140 MB/s. Where as, the HDD only produced a maximum of 90 MB/s during my testing. Sequential Write Speeds saw no gains of improvement between the Hybrid Drive and the Normal HDD in my testing. Results may vary... obviously, dependent on system specs. Overall, I would definitely recommend the FireCuda Hybrid HDD/SSD over a Normal HDD of comparable size. I've transferred many of my games from my HDD to my Hybrid drive and can definitely tell a difference in game load times. Let me also note that, the more you play/load a particular game or program, the faster the Hybrid drive is able to load it due to the 8GB of Flash Storage. Without the Flash Storage, a Normal HDD cannot compare. I will also recommend this to anyone that has been thinking about getting a larger SSD to install games to but are not quite ready to drop the amount of money it costs to get a SSD with a capacity of 1TB or higher.