New HDD, what should i get?

[AzimuthVector]

Hi guys and gals,

 

Im in the market for a new hdd atleast 2TB in capacity and im debating with myself whether to go with a standard HDD or put the extra money in for an SSHD as ive never used one so im not sure if the extra price backs it up for performance. What should i do?

[DeViLzzz]

The best value is often the 3 TB 7200 RPM drives from Seagate but I know there are larger capacity hard drives out there now and I am not sure what the lowest price per GB has been for them.  Now in regards to the SSHDs I have no comment.

[Bittenfleax]

Hi guys and gals,

 

Im in the market for a new hdd atleast 2TB in capacity and im debating with myself whether to go with a standard HDD or put the extra money in for an SSHD as ive never used one so im not sure if the extra price backs it up for performance. What should i do?

Well you could get a 240GB SSD and a 1TB HDD, but then it is not 2TB  :mellow:

 

I have not really used a SSHD so I cannot say anything about them  :lol:

[ShadowCaptain]

SSHDs are not worth it really

 

get a dedicated SSD and HDD

[Bittenfleax]

SSHDs are not worth it really

 

get a dedicated SSD and HDD

This ^^^^ 

[AzimuthVector]

Yeah i thought i was right for being a bit skeptical of SSHDs. Thanks for the replies people!

[nanowatt]

Usually anything will get the job done with the condition but be a trusted brand and have a nice warranty.If you need it for general use then a single 2 tb unit will do but if you need to store some more important stuff you should get another unit and run them in raid.Hard drives don't just fail and i still have a very old samsung spinpoint around the house that is still working.As for the sdd thing well if you need speed 30-60 gb of ssd storage should be enough for os and basic programs sshd as za captain said are not worth

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @MrROFLWafflez!

 

Basically a hybrid drive only has a certain amount of fast storage (cache) for commonly accessed files. This means that the files within the 8GB or so of cache are accessed at SSD speeds while the rest are accessed at standard HDD speeds, and you have no control over which files goes in that cache. That's why hybrids are good option if you have a laptop and only one hard drive slot.

 

But if you're with desktop, then I agree with @ShadowCaptain that the best configuration is SSD+HDD, where you put the OS and the demanding apps on the SSD, and the HDD is used for storage and the not so demanding programs/games.