WD Dual Drive2

sergeantserk

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Hello all,

The Western Digital Dual Drive2 has been reviewed and received as a greatly SSD and HDD combo. My question is, does this drive really live up to its reputation? I mean as far as read speeds go and all the hype maybe exaggerates it but, is it worth buying for a laptop where I do some gaming and editing, especially if I have a 1TB HDD that boots up alright?

Laptop Specs:
HP Pavilion 15-n090sa
AMD A8-4555M
8GB Memory
1TB HDD
 


Pretty much yes because if you only have place for 1 2.5inch hdd and want the speed off an ssd while being ablie to install some programs on it and the capacity off an hdd then that is the way to go. It preforms pretty decent too.
 
PCWorld reviewed this drive in 2014 and found write speeds lacking. Having said that, I'm installing one in my wife's laptop to replace a crashed HDD and hope to see improved performance by putting programs on the SSD and data on the HDD. My only concern is will the programs know where to look for the data?
 
Hey there, @sergeantserk!

@jaslion pretty much said it all, WD Black² is designed exactly for laptops that do not have 2 HDD bays to install 2 separate drives. So we created the WD dual drive, which gives you 120 GB of SSD for your OS and programs and 1 TB HDD for data storage. One of the perks of the drive is that it also comes with the same 5-year limited warranty as the WD Black and deliver high performance as well. People of video and photo editing, graphic design, games and other power computing applications will benefit the most from the WD Black². Here's a link to the product where you can see all the features and details about it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=MU21wz
Some interesting articles from our KB about it as well:
What is a WD Black² Dual Drive - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=uomE0V
Expected behaviors of a WD Black² Dual Drive in a PC - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=5m68Bc
How to install the WD Black² - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=21KcFL

@Joacchim, I don't think you'd have any issues with that. However, you'd need to re-locate the default download location to the HDD portion.
Here's the know-how: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/redirect-folder-new-location#1TC=windows-7

Hope I was helpful, guys! :)
Let me know if you have any questions!
SuperSoph_WD
 

@SuperSoph_WD: Thanks for the link. It got me started in the right direction. However, I needed a way to make sure programs stored documents, pictures, music and videos in the corresponding folders on the HDD and not on the SSD. I stumbled across the answer by going to Windows Explorer, right-clicking on the SSD Documents folder, and then clicking on "Properties". This brings up a window to specify the preferred location for documents. The default is "My Documents" on the SSD; I highlighted and clicked "remove", then clicked "Include a folder" and browsed to the desired location on the new HDD, in my case "E:/Users/(user name)/My Documents". Click include, then highlight that selection and click "set save location". Hope this makes sense/helps anyone else with this question.