Hybrid vs HDD/SSD combo

[King_of_Oz]

So I'm building a new PC and to save money, instaid of doing a HDD/SSD combo I figured I could get a hybrid drive? What are you thoughts? 

 

HDD/SSD combo or 1 hybrid drive? What would be cheaper?

[Oswin]

an sshd would be cheaper but performs less than an ssd. i would suggest to get a SSD and HDD combo, just store the important files in the SSD the rest put in the HDD

[Wrb]

Hybrid drives are usually crap, with only 8 or 16gb actually being SSD, and the rest being hard drive. Get two separate ones, it will work better.

[Energycore]

I've found a 120GB SSD + 1TB hard drive to be enough for my daily life. I mostly play games 1 at a time, so I put the game I'm playing on the 120GB (I've found it able to fit 3-4 games 15GB each, the rest for my OS and applications), then when I'm done I copy it back into the HDD.

[Mira Yurizaki]

A hybrid drive would be cheaper for the same amount of storage.

 

However it takes a while for the performance boost of a hybrid drive to kick in. The program has to be used often. So while your OS would eventually get a boost, nothing else may.

[aisle9]

I did a little digging a while back and found that for about $10 more than a 1 TB Seagate desktop SSHD, you could get a 1 TB Seagate HDD and a 120GB budget SSD. In most cases, an SSHD isn't worth it. The only situations in which I'd consider one are laptops and mini PCs/USFFs where a 2.5" SSD can't physically be squeezed into the case.

[SirFlamenco]

18 minutes ago, Oswin said:

an sshd would be cheaper but performs less than an ssd. i would suggest to get a SSD and HDD combo, just store the important files in the SSD the rest put in the HDD

I don't agree : 

 

[Oswin]

3 minutes ago, SirFlamenco said:

I don't agree : 

 

what?? lol can you read? 

 

24 minutes ago, Oswin said:

 

an sshd would be cheaper but performs less than an ssd

 

i dont know what you are doing, you seem to be disagreeing everything i wrote

[King_of_Oz]

thx guys !

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi @King_of_Oz!

 

Like the others wrote it depends pretty much on what are you planning to do with the PC, but I personally would prefer the dual storage configuration with a 120/256GB SSD and 1TB/2TB HDD.

Basically a SSHD blends HDD capacity with SSD speeds by placing traditional rotating platters, and a small amount of high-speed flash memory on a single drive. It 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 (for instance, 8GB or 16GB of files), and everything else is accessed at standard HDD speeds.

The biggest con though is that with the hybrid drives you have no control over what the SSHD stores in its cache since 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. At the same times, with an SSD and a HDD you can choose what to run faster and what not because you'll skip the algorithm part and you will put whatever you want wherever you want.

Also, my personal preference is to have one drive for your OS and most demanding software and another one mostly for mass storage since that way you'll have a secondary backup unit for the most important data from the primary drive. 

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

 

 

[King_of_Oz]

4 hours ago, Mighty_Miro_WD said:

Hi @King_of_Oz!

 

Like the others wrote it depends pretty much on what are you planning to do with the PC, but I personally would prefer the dual storage configuration with a 120/256GB SSD and 1TB/2TB HDD.

Basically a SSHD blends HDD capacity with SSD speeds by placing traditional rotating platters, and a small amount of high-speed flash memory on a single drive. It 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 (for instance, 8GB or 16GB of files), and everything else is accessed at standard HDD speeds.

The biggest con though is that with the hybrid drives you have no control over what the SSHD stores in its cache since 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. At the same times, with an SSD and a HDD you can choose what to run faster and what not because you'll skip the algorithm part and you will put whatever you want wherever you want.

Also, my personal preference is to have one drive for your OS and most demanding software and another one mostly for mass storage since that way you'll have a secondary backup unit for the most important data from the primary drive. 

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

 

 

Thanks a bunch!