Is seagate firecuda 2To worth it ?

[Kisscool]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm in need of a 2To or 4To storage disk for desktop. I do not possess an SSD in it, so I was wondering if an SSHD would fill the gap (i won't pay the price of a 2To SSD).

I would use it for games and the system,mainly. I have other HDD's for storage.

 

So it is nearly twice the price for the same capacity, I expect to have a good performance boost when booting and loading games, but with only 8Gb cache I'm not too sure about that... But well I don't have an SSD so.... here is where I am.

Here are the current price, I need to buy it this week, so can't wait for good offers :

Seagate barracuda HDD 2To : 75$

Seagate firecuda SSHD 2To : 110$

 

My line of thought is that I am ready to buy 110$ worth but not so much more, so I can do 4To HDD, or a reliable 2To HDD or SSHD2To.

I could do HDD+SDD but I need 2To HDD anyway and with the ssd it would be too muxh (unless very small sdd)

 

So if anyone has had experience with sshd for games, please do not hesitate to share !

[ARikozuM]

No. You're better off getting the 2TB and then perhaps getting a 2nd to run in RAID 1. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

For the price of that sshd you can buy a 2tb hdd and a 240gb ssd for boot, whyt not do that?

[GoldenLag]

get a seperate SSD to use as a bootdrive and startup program.

 

just use a regular segate barracuda 2tb as mass storage

[Kisscool]

7 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

No. You're better off getting the 2TB and then perhaps getting a 2nd to run in RAID 1. 

Well raid1 is out of question, It will only contain games that I can redownload, but I get that the price difference is not worth it from your comment.

 

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

For the price of that sshd you can buy a 2tb hdd and a 240gb ssd for boot, whyt not do that?

Yes I might as well do that, but if the SSHD can prove itself in diminishing loading times, I will get it so I can have both faster booting and game loadings (altought with a smaller time gain for the booting).

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Kisscool said:

Yes I might as well do that, but if the SSHD can prove itself in diminishing loading times, I will get it so I can have both faster booting and game loadings (altought with a smaller time gain for the booting).

you can also cache the hdd in software and that normally works better than the sshd would and would be cheaper

[Kisscool]

16 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can also cache the hdd in software and that normally works better than the sshd would and would be cheaper

I didn't know about that ! Thanks I will go for the 2ToHDD route and add an SDD down the line. Thanks you all 3 for the consensus

[seagate_surfer]

39 minutes ago, Kisscool said:

Hello everyone,

 

I'm in need of a 2To or 4To storage disk for desktop. I do not possess an SSD in it, so I was wondering if an SSHD would fill the gap (i won't pay the price of a 2To SSD).

I would use it for games and the system,mainly. I have other HDD's for storage.

 

So it is nearly twice the price for the same capacity, I expect to have a good performance boost when booting and loading games, but with only 8Gb cache I'm not too sure about that... But well I don't have an SSD so.... here is where I am.

Here are the current price, I need to buy it this week, so can't wait for good offers :

Seagate barracuda HDD 2To : 75$

Seagate firecuda SSHD 2To : 110$

 

My line of thought is that I am ready to buy 110$ worth but not so much more, so I can do 4To HDD, or a reliable 2To HDD or SSHD2To.

I could do HDD+SDD but I need 2To HDD anyway and with the ssd it would be too muxh (unless very small sdd)

 

So if anyone has had experience with sshd for games, please do not hesitate to share !

Hello Kisscool,

 

Thanks for considering our products, the FireCuda is intended to be used for gaming yes, but it is also true that if you accelerate one HDD with one SSD with any type of cache technology (Intel Optane, PrimoChache, IMStore) it will result on better performance than the FireCuda or a system with any other HDD without acceleration because the SSD you will use to accelerate a HDD will hopefully be bigger than the small SSD built-in with FireCuda, so hoping that you can find one SSD bigger than 8GB and hopefully it will be NVME and hopefully your motherboard will support it then go for it and use that.

[Electronics Wizardy]

20 minutes ago, Kisscool said:

I didn't know about that ! Thanks I will go for the 2ToHDD route and add an SDD down the line. Thanks you all 3 for the consensus

its much easier to add a ssd how. Id really suggest getting a ssd boot drive. It will make the system much faster.

[seagate_surfer]

It will, yes! At some point during next year SSDs are expected to drop prices because of the over manufacturing on NAND chips in case you wonder or would like to wait, some of us believe that at any moment the SSDs will match the prices of HDDs, so there won't be any reason for not getting one.