SSHD vs HDD

[coolmrschill]

For my Secondary Hard drive what is better this SSDD Hybrid or this standard mechanical hard drive.

[MaxBunny]

Just now, coolmrschill said:

For my Secondary Hard drive what is better this SSDD Hybrid or this standard mechanical hard drive.

Depends on what you'll be using it for. Just storage and files? No need to pay more for an SSHD. Games and software? SSHD for sure.

[coolmrschill]

Just now, MaxBunny said:

Depends on what you'll be using it for. Just storage and files? No need to pay more for an SSHD. Games and software? SSHD for sure.

Most likey all my steam games, how much faster is it really?

[PenPoint]

SSHD sucks.

If you really want to use SSHD, then combining 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD through IRST will be a WAY better combination even considering the price gap.

[MaxBunny]

Just now, coolmrschill said:

Most likey all my steam games, how much faster is it really?

It's significantly faster after it stores an app in its SSD cache, which takes a few uses of that particular program.

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi @coolmrschill!

 

If it was for a secondary storage drive I would personally go with a standard HDD rather than a hybrid drive. 

 

Basically a SSHD blend HDD capacity with SSD speeds by placing traditional rotating platters, and a small amount of high-speed flash memory on a single drive. So basically a hybrid drive only has a certain amount of fast storage (cache) for commonly accessed files, which means that the files within this cache are accessed at SSD speeds while the rest are accessed at standard HDD speeds. Furthermore, the biggest con is that with the hybrid drives you have no control over what the SSHD stores in its cache - the drive uses a built-in algorithm to determine which frequently used files it will cache. So unless you're going to use the same file very often you won't see a big deal of benefit.

 

Since you want to run games from there you may get a slight increase in the loading times for some of them, but in general once the mentioned cache gets full there won't be any difference.

 

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have.