SSHD, or SSD + HDD

[meritmaster]

Well i'm building a computer for a friend, but i'm stuck on what i should get him for a storage solution, so can someone help?

Was thinking of getting him this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178379&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=  How much memory is SSD memory though? 

[TheMcSame]

SSD+HDD

 

Don't even bother with SSHDs, in some cases they don't even outperform a decent 7.2k drive.

[Vacsol]

SSHDs are just 7200RPM drives with 8gb of SSD cache. they have boot times similar to SSDs but that's about it.

 

the problem with SSHDs is that you have the physical failure risk of a HDD along with the finite read/write life of an SSD. so they aren't great for critical storage.

[Captain_WD]

Well i'm building a computer for a friend, but i'm stuck on what i should get him for a storage solution, so can someone help?

Was thinking of getting him this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178379&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=  How much memory is SSD memory though? 

 

 

Hey merimaster,

 

As the guys mentioned, SSHD is simply a regular HDD with a small (usually 8GB) SSD part for caching. You do not have any access to it and can't decide what goes there for faster loading. Also, if you decide to upgrade, swap or move the storage you would have to move everything (OS, install files, etc.) from your system. Also it has two points of failure in one drive and if either of the mfail, you would lose all data on the drive.

I would suggest going for separate SSD and HDD as you would have the safety of keeping the data on one of them in case the other fails, the freedom to swap one without the need to restore the other and to actually have the freedom to choose what goes on the much larger SSD and what says on the HDD.

 

Captain_WD.