Hybrid Drives

[EddWills95]

Just wondering what the general feeling on Hybrid Drives is?

I'm looking at getting a 500gb one or something more, rather than an SSD and then a HDD

Cheers

 

[Feronix]

In my opinion, if you really need the speed:
All SSD

If you need the speed for a few apps only:
128/256GB SSD + 2 or 3 TB WD Caviar Green.

But that's just my humble opinion

 

[vorticalbox]

hybrid drives are just a hard disk drive with a small SSD which it caches the last 4GB of data to an SSD (500 GB seagate has 4GB of nand memory).

i would suggest as above ^_^

 

[EddWills95]

okay. thanks for the replies guys just trying to cut cost corners all the time

 

[Resident]

I have one, Seagate Momentus XT. It's not bad tbh but don't expect the out and out speed of SSD. Yes it's a little faster but you'll have to wait about a month to see any speed increase over a standard mechanical drive. The SSD isn't user-accessible. Instead the on-board firmware "learns" your most accessed files and copies them to the SSD portion of the drive.

I didn't get mine specifically because I wanted SSD. I was looking for a mech drive and it popped up on my screen for only an extra fiver and I was intrigued.

 

[vorticalbox]

okay. thanks for the replies guys just trying to cut cost corners all the time

saving money is always a good thing

are you planning an upgrade or building a new system? you could make a new post with your current hardware and/or planned hardware and a budget and see what people suggest.

 

[iBeInspire]

I'd be looking at a 128gb SSD + 1tb HDD to be honest...

Those together these days can be had for ~ £120/130 and they give you the best of both worlds. Blistering performance, and a massive storage space too