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I'm replacing my laptop's 500GB WD Blue hard drive which has supposedly failed. I'm thinking of getting a hybrid drive. 500GB is more than enough as I only plan to use like, 180GB of storage space in a single operating system. But which drive should I buy?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-Performance-500GB-Hybrid-Internal/dp/B0151KMCZY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1492778405&sr=8-4&keywords=2.5+hybrid+drive+500gb

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST500LX025-Firecuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-Hybrid/dp/B01LZM5R0O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492778405&sr=8-2&keywords=2.5+hybrid+drive+500gb

Yes, there are 240GB SSDs but they cost a bit more, trying to be cheap here as I'm more on the line of "should I get a normal hard drive or a hybrid drive??" I'm probably going to get an SSD for my upcoming PC Build in the summer, but right now I just need a working hard drive. 

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I changed my 500 GB HDD for a 240GB SSD on my laptop last year. Best decision I have taken in a while. However I do have 2TB of hard drives on my desktop, so I didn't need to worry about mass storage. if you have any other means of mass storage, I would strongly advice you to get an ssd, even if it costs more. The speed boost is worth it.

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Just now, jappypack said:

I'm replacing my laptop's 500GB WD Blue hard drive which has supposedly failed. I'm thinking of getting a hybrid drive. 500GB is more than enough as I only plan to use like, 180GB of storage space in a single operating system. But which drive should I buy?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-Performance-500GB-Hybrid-Internal/dp/B0151KMCZY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1492778405&sr=8-4&keywords=2.5+hybrid+drive+500gb

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST500LX025-Firecuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-Hybrid/dp/B01LZM5R0O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492778405&sr=8-2&keywords=2.5+hybrid+drive+500gb

Yes, there are 240GB SSDs but they cost a bit more, trying to be cheap here as I'm more on the line of "should I get a normal hard drive or a hybrid drive??" I'm probably going to get an SSD for my upcoming PC Build in the summer, but right now I just need a working hard drive. 

ok a SSHD will be faster than a HDD but an SSD is still better. But check for the ssd cache speed. The one with the higher one is better, But i would still recommend a SSD.

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If your laptop has more than 1 slots for storage drives then I suggest 1 SSD for boot and 1 HDD for data.
 

I myself do have bad experiences with 2 Seagate HDDs which died right after warranty expires, so I will never use Seagate drives ever again. I haven't seen much fail reports about them in the forums though....

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Just now, Jurrunio said:

If your laptop has more than 1 slots for storage drives then I suggest 1 SSD for boot and 1 HDD for data.
 

I myself do have bad experiences with 2 Seagate HDDs which died right after warranty expires, so I will never use Seagate drives ever again. I haven't seen much fail reports about them in the forums though....

a laptop with a 500gb HDD ONLY probably was probably too cheap and old to support such "gaming" features as multiple sata slots.

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52 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

You really want an SSD for a laptop. Lower weight, power consumption, not prone to shock and mechanical failure.

Laptops gain much more from SSDs than desktops. But if you really need that much space and cannot afford an SSD, I guess a hybrid drive will do.

Between the two I'd pick the Seagate drive because 5 year warranty

I might just get a normal hard drive because SSD's cost way too much. I'm saving that for later, as I said I'm gonna build a PC in the Summer, I only need a hard drive so I can play League of Legends for now. I'm not the one paying for all this stuff anyway, I don't wanna spend much money on the piece of junk of a laptop that I have since I'll be replacing it soon.

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6 hours ago, DeezNoNos said:

a laptop with a 500gb HDD ONLY probably was probably too cheap and old to support such "gaming" features as multiple sata slots.

In my Lenovo G40 at least, users can give up the cd-dvd drive for a sata device. some people hardly uses it so they just leave it out for an ssd instead.

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3 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

In my Lenovo G40 at least, users can give up the cd-dvd drive for a sata device. some people hardly uses it so they just leave it out for an ssd instead.

yeah i was thinking of doing that originally but now i have no hard drive at all which is a struggle

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