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The HD in my old Toshiba Satellite was showing its age. So I was looking into an SSD but the price vs capacity was a problem. While researching SSd's I discovered the Hybrid drives. A blending of an SSD with a platter system for both speed and capacity. Shortly after that I went ahead and settled on The Seagate FireCuda 500Gig HD. Shipping was the usual quick Newegg style so that Saturday I set to make the change. I downloaded DiskWizard before I started (See the Cons for That experience) Installed the new FireCuda and did a clean install of Win 7 from my rescue disks. After the usual cleanup, re-install of my programs and the MS update process I finally rebooted and . . WOW 30 seconds shaved off my boot time. Been running about a month now with near daily use and as of this writing my laptop boots in about 50 seconds down from 3 minutes with the old drive. The read writes are faster too. Not only that as advertised my battery life has increased due to the drive shutting down the platters after so many minutes of in-activity. I use my Toshiba for email, Office apps, web video, web surfing and light video editing and DVD burning and so far it runs faster all the way around. I do not game with it so I cant attest to that part of its ability. Suffice to say that for me the FireCuda has been a great upgrade. Very happy.