For those who really want a 2.5” SSHD, the Seagate Firecuda 2TB (ST2000LXZ01) with 8GB of flash cache appears to be priced the same as the 1TB drive on Amazon.

This 7mm 2.5” drive would make a great upgrade for certain laptops or more likely, the internal hard drive of a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. Better than the old days of trying to shuck a portable USB hard drive to find a 7mm sized drive (which wasn’t SSHD).

Personally if it were me I would still go with an SSD but for those with huge libraries, this is a potentially good compromise and at under $100 delivered for Prime customers, it’s quite a bit cheaper than the last time this deal was posted.

WARNING Given the comments in this thread and from anecdotal Googling, there seem to be quite a few user who have had Firecuda drives fail on them when used as an internal drive for the PS4. I suggest doing your own research before committing, and/or making use of PSN+ cloud backups.