Advice on new HHD or SSHD

For a game PC go with an SSD or HDD. SSDs are nice if the games fit, otherwise just get a few TB for your steam downloads on the HDD. Gaming on an SSHD doesnt make sense as the load times wont be any different to a HDD because the games cant fit on the SSHD's SSD.

For a home/work PC the SSHD works great as the contorller marks recently accesed files and stores a copy on the SSD component. In other words if all you do is Windows, Office and a web browser, those files are cached and you get near SSD like performance, and you still have x TB for media.

I've used SSHDs for two home PCs and they're awesome.
 
Just get an ssd

Get an external or hp microserver for all else.

Get an Samsung Evo 850. They are quick and blinking speed if you use mac osx or windows 10. On a laptop its really a no brainer. The sshd is nice for a ps4 if you want the storage and dont have the budget for ssd. For everything else the ssd is best. I only use ssd as main drives with an hdd for everything else. Also get more memory. 8gb minimum but on 64bit get 16gb. That also makes a huge difference.

If your budget is too tight the samsung evo 750 is nice. Dont get crucial unless you have a mac. They are more geared at macs and problematic on pcs.
 
And WD red. Seagates arent as great as they used before. Hitachi is best followed by the wd blacks then reds and at the bottom is seagate. The best seagate was the old 1.5tb ones they last like 8 years on avg but thats before the thailand floods where the factories were destroyed, now wd red are the constants unless you can get a hitachi. Seagates has a 2 year life now or less. Most fail just after 14 months
 
agentrfr said:
For a game PC go with an SSD or HDD. SSDs are nice if the games fit, otherwise just get a few TB for your steam downloads on the HDD. Gaming on an SSHD doesnt make sense as the load times wont be any different to a HDD because the games cant fit on the SSHD's SSD.

For a home/work PC the SSHD works great as the contorller marks recently accesed files and stores a copy on the SSD component. In other words if all you do is Windows, Office and a web browser, those files are cached and you get near SSD like performance, and you still have x TB for media.

I've used SSHDs for two home PCs and they're awesome.
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Thank you for the advice. I'm currently booting on a 150gb ssd and have a 300gb hhd for games and media that is running low. Makes sense for gaming you won't see an load speed increase. I'll go with a traditional hhd.
 
Corelli said:
Get an external or hp microserver for all else.

Get an Samsung Evo 850. They are quick and blinking speed if you use mac osx or windows 10. On a laptop its really a no brainer. The sshd is nice for a ps4 if you want the storage and dont have the budget for ssd. For everything else the ssd is best. I only use ssd as main drives with an hdd for everything else. Also get more memory. 8gb minimum but on 64bit get 16gb. That also makes a huge difference.

If your budget is too tight the samsung evo 750 is nice. Dont get crucial unless you have a mac. They are more geared at macs and problematic on pcs.
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Thank you for the tips. I'm not familiar with a microserver. I'm booting on a ssd already and wanted to know if a sshd is a good option for large storage compared to sshd. Looks like a sshd won't work for gaming.
 
HDD manufacturer quality levels ebb and flow. Right now, I would go with a Seagate drive personally if I were to choose. A few years ago my choice would have been WD. Seeing that we have thousands of faulty drives here from all brands, it's impossible to say that one is better than the other. But right now, Seagate's new range of drives are good.

An SSHD is a great compromise in terms of capacity, speed and price. Your OS will boot really fast and the apps you use often will load very quickly. Most SSHDs only have 8GB cache though. It's definitely worth spending an extra few hundred for an SSHD over a HDD. Obviously an SSD is king, but to get a 1TB SSD is just too expensive.

We get a lot of failed SSHD drives in here too, as well as SSDs, so in terms of reliablilty nothing is perfect. But bang for buck, an SSHD is a great concept and works very well.
 
SouthBit said:
HDD manufacturer quality levels ebb and flow. Right now, I would go with a Seagate drive personally if I were to choose. A few years ago my choice would have been WD. Seeing that we have thousands of faulty drives here from all brands, it's impossible to say that one is better than the other. But right now, Seagate's new range of drives are good.

An SSHD is a great compromise in terms of capacity, speed and price. Your OS will boot really fast and the apps you use often will load very quickly. Most SSHDs only have 8GB cache though. It's definitely worth spending an extra few hundred for an SSHD over a HDD. Obviously an SSD is king, but to get a 1TB SSD is just too expensive.

We get a lot of failed SSHD drives in here too, as well as SSDs, so in terms of reliablilty nothing is perfect. But bang for buck, an SSHD is a great concept and works very well.
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Can you be more specific on exact models, please?

8GB SSD is a joke. However I would go for anything from 32GB up assuming 30% price difference.
 
sajunky said:
Can you be more specific on exact models, please?

8GB SSD is a joke. However I would go for anything from 32GB up assuming 30% price difference.
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Its not a 8GB SSD, its a normal HDD with a 8GB SSD Cache hence the Solid State Hybrid Drive
 
Rickster said:
Its not a 8GB SSD, its a normal HDD with a 8GB SSD Cache hence the Solid State Hybrid Drive
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You do not understand. 8GB SSD in hybrid drive is a joke.
Don't try to be more clever than you are.
 
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