Any opinions on Seagate 1TB SSHD (ST1000LM014)? Might install on late 2011 MBP

What size is this MBP late 2011?

There's a:

Apple Recall

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

If it's a 15 or 17.

As to the SSD I only use OWC:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_6G/

and carries a 3/5 year warranty.

I had a Seagate 1 TB SSHD in my late 2011 MBP and I found that it worked very satisfactorily. Boot time, shutdown time and often used applications were faster but it still is not an SSD. For the very modest price premium vs, a conventional HDD, I think it is worth it.

I have replaced it a few weeks ago with a 1 TB Crucial SSD, and that by comparison is very expensive. Speed is nice, but not essential in an avocational environment, so think carefully about the expenditure.

Ciao.

" if my monitor starts getting buggy"

Also the shutdown issue.

I scanned through those reviews on Amazon and the 1 stars are bothersome and as OLGETHORPE says:

"it still is not an SSD"

Personally I find working with a conventional drive machine in any environment irritating. As has been said:

"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? (After they've seen Paree.)"

I fitted a 750GB Seagate SSHD many years ago, and a 500GB one even earlier than that. They are now both external drives and they work fine, but they are far slower than a full SSD, albeit a bit faster than an HDD.

Hello,

I installed the same Seagate 1TB SSHD Hydbrid in October of 2013 and it went bad this week. A surface scan indicates that it has 16 bad blocks. It fails to boot but I am able to boot in a safe mode from an external OS. The error I receive is that Mac OS is unable to repair the disk and I may only view and copy files. I purchased the drive at OWC and their customer service has been great. The only hitch is that the three year warranty is from Seagate and it may take a while to process the replacement so I am replacing the drive with OWC's Electra 1TB SSD instead because I no longer trust the Seagate Hybrid to last very long.

iPhone App Index wrote:

Thanks Ogelthorpe. How long did you use the drive before upgrading?

About one year. The one I had intstalled is in external service and one Is an unused reserve.

Ciao.

Pick a drive manufacturer and I'll find you someone who had that manufacturers product fail unexpectedly. There are billions of drives, sooner or later they will all fail.

Hi iPhone App Index,

I agree on the new car parts/old car theory. My main reason for keeping my early 2011 15" MBP running is that I'm a photographer and shoot tethered with a medium format back that is producing 250mb RAW files via FW800 and this was one of the last machines to have a built in FW800 port and a Thunderbolt port. The Apple Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter can cause issues with devices that draw a lot of power since the chip set in the adapter steps down the wattage. The work around is using a powered Thunderbolt hub which means you need an AC power source just to shoot...

" I really don't want to pay an extra $200-$300 for true solid state... "

What I did to my early 2011 13' MBP was to put a 120 GB SSD in just for the OS and applications. All storage would either be in the "Data Doubler" or the multitude of external drives that I have. Plus that drive cost me $69 (Old price.) and I wouldn't spend even a few minutes on a conventional drive. In fact my desk top iMac in my tech shop is a late 2006 20" iMac. It's running Lion and was so slow I couldn't wait to swap the drive out. It's now running a 3 G 120 GB SSD from OWC. It's very fast and since I'm constantly on it w/ a second monitor studying schematics, board views and Googling stuff. II don't even have to swear at it anymore.