The Seagate 600 & 600 Pro SSD Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 7, 2013 8:00 AM ESTPower Consumption
Under load, Seagate's 600 and 600 Pro do a great job on power consumption. The combination of Toshiba's 19nm NAND and whatever firmware tweaks Seagate did result in very compelling power consumption under load. The problem is the 600 is measurably worse than Samsung's SSD 840 Pro at idle. For desktops this shouldn't matter, but notebook users looking to stay on battery as long as possible would be better off with an 840 Pro.
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Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - link
I need to speak with Anand but $60 definitely doesn't sound too bad :-) Ultimately I think a meter that could log data e.g. every 100ms and the data could easily be import to Excel would be ideal as then we could easily make a graph of power usage over time, but knowing the overall usage would still be better than what we have now. Thanks for the suggestion!GamerGirl - Thursday, May 9, 2013 - link
wow this is really so fast...19nm of nand its ok for longlife?MelodyRamos47 - Sunday, May 12, 2013 - link
before I saw the draft 4 $9944, I did not believe ...that...my mother in law was like they say actually erning money in their spare time at their laptop.. there aunt started doing this 4 only fifteen months and by now cleard the mortgage on there villa and bourt a great new Chrysler. we looked here, Jump44.comCHECK IT OUTbards1888 - Monday, May 13, 2013 - link
A local supplier has this part in stock, ST480FN0021. It does not appear to be the 600 Pro as it has part number ST480FP0021.Does anyone know the difference ?
vdidenko - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link
I am known to fill up all storage available, so it will be hard to stick to the 10-20% free space rule for me. However, would partitioning the disk so that 20% of it is not allocated to a partition do the trick technologically? It surely will force me...aSSDtech - Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - link
I don't think 4 Tantulium Capacitors can make SSDs suvive upon sudden host power loss. 4*470uF can not meet the power of the SSD needs because the power comsumption is generally 4W and the data needs to be flushed down are more than 4 seconds because the DRAMs and the write speed.RaresIonut - Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - link
Hi,Very nice review!
I ordered a Seagate s600 120GB and I should get it by tomorow.
There's one thing that bothers me regarding ssd's (particulary mine): does the Seagate s600 120GB have TRIM support? Does it need TRIM support?
Sorry if this was mentioned somewhere in the article, I'm reading iton a bus :(
Thank you! :)
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Delicate - Monday, January 20, 2014 - link
As per this article - http://www.techarena.in/review/258133-seagate-600-... in the Indian market this hard drive is way to costly which comes at Rs. 9000. Being a hard drive for extreme pc and gaming does not mean that it should be so much costly.