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Rezzify
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I have a crap old HDD currently and an M.2 NvMe. I’m buying a new HDD/SSHD. Should I get a Seagate 2tb SSHD or HDD

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4 minutes ago, Rezzify said:

I have a crap old HDD currently and an M.2 NvMe. I’m buying a new HDD/SSHD. Should I get a Seagate 2tb SSHD or HDD

Personally, if you already have a fabulous main drive, a SSHD won’t make enough of a difference to warrant the extra cost

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HDD. SSHD is basically 8GB SSD + HDD, which is not worth the performance increase (if at all) when you have a dedicated SSD.

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3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

HDD. SSHD is basically 8GB SSD + HDD, which is not worth the performance increase (if at all) when you have a dedicated SSD.

Also, SSHD can be troublesome without the proper drivers and those drivers can be a pain to find.  As an owner of an SSHD I would point you in the exact opposite direction.  

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The only time SSHD's are really remotely worth it is when they need to act as an OS drive, IMO. And even then, it's a pretty iffy worth it.

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11 minutes ago, nick name said:

Also, SSHD can be troublesome without the proper drivers and those drivers can be a pain to find.  As an owner of an SSHD I would point you in the exact opposite direction.  

They don't need drivers as typical SSHDs do their caching work without the OS knowing. But no, I wouldn't recommend getting an SSHD if you already have a nice SSD as your boot drive. 

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2 minutes ago, Lenovo1984 said:

They don't need drivers as typical SSHDs do their caching work without the OS knowing. But no, I wouldn't recommend getting an SSHD if you already have a nice SSD as your boot drive. 

Funny enough . . . my Lenovo laptop would like to strongly disagree with you.  That sum bish would love to sit at 100% disk usage.  

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18 hours ago, nick name said:

Funny enough . . . my Lenovo laptop would like to strongly disagree with you.  That sum bish would love to sit at 100% disk usage.  

That's what happens with Windows 10 and mechanical drives (with solid state caching or not). 

14 hours ago, Pauleft said:

SSHD for sure but wait until the prices drop for those things 

I wouldn't bother for an SSHD with an SSD as a boot drive. There's no point to spending that much more money. 

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2 hours ago, Lenovo1984 said:

That's what happens with Windows 10 and mechanical drives (with solid state caching or not). 

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I'll buy that.  I couldn't find a real solution to fix the problem except replacing the drive with a SSD.  

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