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Hybrid drive or normal hard drive?

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SSHD's just are faster than regular hard drives, it has a a tiny SSD to cache data.

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If you want to use it daily, hyrid is the way to go. If it's just for media storage or whatever, normal will be fine.

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Hybrid drive = small amount of solid state memory, with mechanical storage as well. It's meant to "intelligently" store commonly used files on the solid state memory (which is faster than the mechanical part).

 

Overall, it's a waste of time, if you want an SSD, get at least a 256GB SSD for your OS, and a mechanical one for storage.

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Separate HDD+SSD is better than an SSHD

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Separate HDD+SSD is better than an SSHD

I completely agree, I would always choose an SSD and HDD if it's in the budget.

As a user of a Seagate SSHD I can say they are significantly faster than HDDs for booting and make browsers feel much more responsive than a HDD. They are definitely a good option if you can't afford a full SSD and HDD setup, they aren't hugely more expensive than their HDD counterparts.

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Ultimately the SSHD's can offer some performance advantages in certain scenarios . Like all read caching mechanics it comes down to exactly what you are doing, if it is repetitive or cache friendly type of workload then this will offer an advantage if not it wont. 

 

Realistically as stated above by several others using separate drives is the BEST way go guarantee top performance using an SSD for things that need the performance and relegating the HDD to tasks that it is better for.

 

If that is not an option generally my recommendation is to go for it, even if what you are doing is not cache friendly it will be no worse than a normal HDD and the cost is so close that its probably worth it just in case. 

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I have a sshd, they chache to things you use most, so your boot times wont be fast, but if you play 1 game allot it will load it faster. 

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