What is SSHD?

[Xdrone]

From my understanding, SSHD is a HDD with an SSD cache to feed information into it faster. Is this correct?

[Billy_Mays]

It's a little faster than a regular HDD but it should have the same performance but a tad faster

[Xdrone]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

It's a little faster than a regular HDD

But like what is it.

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, Xdrone said:

From my understanding, SSHD is a HDD with an SSD cache to feed information into it faster. Is this correct?

The SSD part of it is used to hold frequently accessed data so those parts load much faster. How the drive determines what's "frequently accessed" is up for debate.

[Billy_Mays]

3 minutes ago, Xdrone said:

But like what is it.

Fancy HDD that you pay a little more for

[Xdrone]

 

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

 

 

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

 

Will I get faster game load times vs HDD?

[JaegerB]

2 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

6 minutes ago, Xdrone said:

But like what is it.

 

Basically a Hard Disk Drive with a small SSD in it that keeps the stuff you use most. That way your most used data will load faster. In terms of game loading data, it could make a small difference, but only after a few uses.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Xdrone said:

Will I get faster game load times vs HDD?

Yes, but you have to load the game several times before parts of it go on the SSD.

 

However if you try this by opening the game, closing it, then opening it again, you're going to see the effects of RAM caching instead of the SSHD at work. While you may get the SSHD to start putting data on the SSD part, you're going to have to restart the computer to actually see it work.

[jools]

go ssd ....yes you are right ,its an hdd with ssd cache

[Bananasplit_00]

An SSDH Is a solid state and mechanical hard-drive hybrid. It has both NAND flash and spinning platters. The SSHD has an internal controller that will move the files you load the most from the platter to the NAND flash for faster access. That's the concept of it, doesn't work amazingly well but they can definitely be faster than HDDs in a few cases but they never reach SSDs. If you had to place them on a performance scale where 10 is an average SSD and 0 is a normal 7200rpm HDD(both in the same capacity) then I would place it at around a 3

[NTDaws]

Data transfers to the NAND flash on the controller first, then transport it to the hard drive. That's the basics of it.

[ShadySocks]

26 minutes ago, Xdrone said:

From my understanding, SSHD is a HDD with an SSD cache to feed information into it faster. Is this correct?

Basically, it's what intel optane is doing.

[Xdrone]

Ok ok so I think I have all the information, the difference that SSHDs provide is that: SSHDs have disks as well as ssd storage that the computer learns what to put into it. And SSHDs have ssd cache (equivalent of intel optane) that allows for faster read times overall.