ssHD vs SSD vs HDD

[Vaellera]

you've done reviews on HDDs as well as SDDs but what about those of us that want to switch over to ssHD? there is no clear comparison out there to be had.

PLEASE do this.

 

my personal experience being using a single 1tb seagate barracuda so can i get any increase in performance by going to an ssHD while still keeping my every growing 800gb of data..

[STRMfrmXMN]

you've done reviews on HDDs as well as SDDs but what about those of us that want to switch over to ssHD? there is no clear comparison out there to be had.

PLEASE do this.

That exists in abundance, all over the Internet. If only I weren't on mobile and could actually copy and paste links...

[CyberneticTitan]

[JebKerman]

because SSHDs aren't really all that good, the SSD portion isn't really big enough, and you can't choose what goes on there. making it generally better to stick with dedicated HDDs and SSDs.

[KemoKa]

SSHDs are basically just HDDs with larger caches, and they can't hold much at once. If you want a true SSHD, get a WD Black². That at least has a good-sized SSD portion that you can control.

[Enderman]

because most people are smart enough to buy a separate SSD+HDD

except for some people who have a laptop with only 1 drive and they cant afford a large SSD, then thats excusable

[Curufinwe_wins]

Basically imho1 SSHD's never make sense and shouldn't be bought. I'm not saying you can't have them and if you do you should toss them, but they fail to address the single most pressing issue with HDD storage in the most pressing cases (which is access times). 8GB cache simply isn't significant enough to be useful in most cases (even windows 10 alone is a 9-11 GB partition.)

 

Furthermore with the massively dropping prices of SSD's, I certainly could never justify SSHD's. 

 

(the dual hybrid drive is a difference story, but it's thickness is a major issue as well.)

[Enderman]

SSHDs are basically just HDDs with larger caches, and they can't hold much at once. If you want a true SSHD, get a WD Black². That at least has a good-sized SSD portion that you can control.

the WD black 2 is the only "decent" SSHD because it actually is two separate drives in one, and you can decide where the data goes

 

SSHD "cache HDDs" are just a waste of money, and perform worse than a normal SSD does

[KemoKa]

the WD black 2 is the only "decent" SSHD because it actually is two separate drives in one, and you can decide where the data goes

 

SSHD "cache HDDs" are just a waste of money, and perform worse than a normal SSD does

Pretty much.

From what I've seen, the vast majority of laptops fall into one of two categories. Either a laptop has a space for an HDD and an ODD, which can be pulled out and replaced with another drive sled, or a laptop that already has some form of solid-state storage. I haven't seen many laptops that only have the one drive bay, and they are all far too underpowered for me to consider buying them. If I had one that was decently powerful, I would forego the HDD and just use a large SSD. That's what I did when I got my first SSD.