SSHD Good or Bad?

[LahryMusic]

I need a bigger drive for my laptop, I'm looking at the Seagate SSHD 2tb. I currently have a Stock 7200rpm 1tb drive. A 2 tb ssd is a little more than what I want to spend on a drive. I have heard bad things about SSHD when the nand flash dies. 

 

Any suggestions or ideas?

[NinJake]

Will you do fine without 2tb? Just get a 500gb-1tb ssd if that fits your budget and use an external drive for any "somewhat necessary" files.

 

No, I would not recommend a SSHD.

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

An SSHD can be helpful, but the flash side is doing is being a large amount of non-volatile cache. This is only really helpful if you reboot often and what you access commonly is living in the cache after rebooting.

 

Also I'm dubious as to any "relaunching" tests with SSHDs. Most operating systems now cache data of anything recently stored in there. So if you open up an application, close it, and relaunch it shortly afterwards, the OS is just going to reinstate the data in RAM that was cached and launch more quickly. It may have to do some loading, but it's a lot less.

 

So my recommendation is it's not worth it if it costs more than any other higher performance drive.

[Windows7ge]

I installed a SSHD in my mothers computer. After she loaded it up with her personal stuff and I went on it for an issue she was having I can say it's only marginally faster than a traditional HDD. Your better off with just a 7200RPM drive if you need high capacity with decent performance cheaper than an high capacity SSD.

[NTDaws]

10 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Will you do fine without 2tb? Just get a 500gb-1tb ssd if that fits your budget and use an external drive for any "somewhat necessary" files.

 

No, I would not recommend a SSHD.

 

I own that SSHD and it works like a charm, owned it for a a year and a half now. Get that SSHD, it's way better than a traditional HDD.

[ARikozuM]

If your case only has room for one 3.5", go with an SSHD if you wish, though I would still take a larger HDD any day.

[NinJake]

2tb or higher 7200 rpm HDD or SSD, I would not settle for SSHD. @M.Yurizaki covered some reasons why. You really won't see a benefit like you would with a SSD by a long shot.

 

If you REAAAALLY can't afford to just get a SSD and then store data on an external drive, stick with the HDD.

[LahryMusic]

1 hour ago, NinJake said:

Will you do fine without 2tb? Just get a 500gb-1tb ssd if that fits your budget and use an external drive for any "somewhat necessary" files.

 

No, I would not recommend a SSHD.

 

I currently have a 1tb and its about full, I have several Virtual machines and Games installed. 

[LahryMusic]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

If your case only has room for one 3.5", go with an SSHD if you wish, though I would still take a larger HDD any day.

My laptop only fits 2.5 inch drives, I should also mention it has 2 M.2 slots.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, arcticfox159 said:

My laptop only fits 2.5 inch drives, I should also mention it has 2 M.2 slots.

Get yourself an MX300 525GB or 275GB M.2. After that get yourself a 1TB HDD.

[LahryMusic]

 

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Get yourself an MX300 525GB or 275GB M.2. After that get yourself a 1TB HDD.

In already have a 1tb hdd and a 180gb m.2 ssd.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, arcticfox159 said:

 

In already have a 1tb hdd and a 180gb m.2 ssd.

I would just stick with that then. Do you absolutely need an SSHD? Replacing your HDD isn't going to make the whole system faster save whatever loads to cache.

[LahryMusic]

16 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

I would just stick with that then. Do you absolutely need an SSHD? Replacing your HDD isn't going to make the whole system faster save whatever loads to cache.

No i didn't really want an sshd to start with but I was looking at replacing my hdd but I don't want to move down to a 5400rpm drive. I wasn't looking at increasing bot times, I wanted to hopefully maintain the speed of my 7200rpm drive.

[ARikozuM]

5 hours ago, arcticfox159 said:

No i didn't really want an sshd to start with but I was looking at replacing my hdd but I don't want to move down to a 5400rpm drive. I wasn't looking at increasing bot times, I wanted to hopefully maintain the speed of my 7200rpm drive.

Then it depends on what 5400RPM drive you're looking at. These days density is high enough that the rotation speed matters little when compared to the actuator arm moving into position. Slower drives can sometimes (depending on the controller) grab more data at once vs a 7200RPM drive.