SSHD?

[Abraham Eldho kunnath]

Dell inspiron 7559 has a 1TB hard disk + 8GB ssd ,wt is hybrid drive ,does this         8 GB ssd mean significant improvement

[SkilledRebuilds]

Its a good boost above normal hdd speeds but usually under the normal ssds.

 

The shining light is file access times, you dont need a super fast read and write if it still access's files in milliseconds, which it will.

 

However.. Windows performs greater when its in the cache..

Play a few rounds of a game eG BF4 and the big levels (2nd round) loads faster as do following rounds..

But back in Windows it can be Mechanical Hdd sluggish again until used more n more n back in cache.

Overall for a games drive they are okay.

Windows by itself n programs, brilliant.

 

For Windows and games, expect pros and cons.

[SkilledRebuilds]

4 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

Well it has 8GB ssd cache but its only for the system files.

and afaik u cant access that ssd though.

Its for all "commonly used" files on that drive.

Otherwise my BF4 files would not get faster loading times akin to SSDs.

Other games load faster as well.

[SkilledRebuilds]

12 hours ago, Thread212 said:

So u can access that part? 

thanks..

No.

Windows cant see anything but the hdd itself and its specific size.

But the Windows filesystem gets used and the controller of the SSD would copy what it finds relevant and freshly/repeatedly accessed files are "shadow copied" and accessed from the SSD portion if space is available otherwise the hdd does the work.