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As above really, need a little advice, running a Samsung EVO 840 as my main drive and a Seagate SSHD as my secondary drive to programs and user file. Should I optimize the SSHD as an SSD or does it take care of this itself? Anyone have any knowledge of this?

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Why did you get an SSHD if you already have an SSD?

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Why did you get an SSHD if you already have an SSD?

They're very similar price to an HDD and with the extra speed, why not?

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Why did you get an SSHD if you already have an SSD?

Maybe he wants accelerated mass storage?

 

Answering the question, I believe it is supposed to be optimised as a HDD, and the SSHD's controller takes care of not writing to the SSD.

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Maybe he wants accelerated mass storage?

 

Answering the question, I believe it is supposed to be optimised as a HDD, and the SSHD's controller takes care of not writing to the SSD.

 

Actually my 1TB HDD sounds like its going to fail, so I thought I might as well replace it with a SSHD as its faster. I also have windows profile user data on the SSHD and games etc so fast mass storage is goooood!

 

I've leave the SSD optimization alone for now... if anything tried it however, I'd like to know.

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Let me try to understand this: You're trying to configure the SSD on your hybrid drive as an SSD. But the thing is, you can't. The SSD in your hybrid drive is storing the cache to accelerate the actual hard drive, similar to Intel Smart Response if you had a separate SSD and HDD. There's no optimization needed. Just configure your 840 Evo as your boot drive, get all the updates installed, and your hybrid drive can sit comfortably around working as your mass storage.

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Yeah that is how it is set up mate, as above. I have the option, with 3rd party software to optimism the sshd, as a whole, as you would an ssd. Ie, enable trim etc. I just dont know what effect this would have on an sshd?

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The SSHD is really just an HDD with a small SSD cache. So no, don't optimize it like an SSD, let it be.

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