hybrid hard drives

marketpantry · Jul 18, 2011

Are they worth the money? i dont want to go all out and spend money on a full ssd, but i noticed there are hybrid drives with both ssd memory and traditional disk spinning hdd platters all in one. if so, what ones would you recommend?

EarthDog · Jul 18, 2011

Save your coin for the real deal.

marketpantry · Jul 18, 2011

EarthDog said:
Save your coin for the real deal.

yeah, but this one is roughly the same price as a regular hdd

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=525

i saw in a review somewhere that this thing out performed at 10k drive. this is a laptop hdd

EarthDog · Jul 18, 2011

Save your coin for the real deal.

marketpantry · Jul 18, 2011

EarthDog said:
Save your coin for the real deal.

lol alright. whats the best cost effective way to do this? can i get away with a small drive and install windows 7 on it for faster performance overall or does that not help things at all? ive done some research and it appears to just just like an sdcard. im a bit concerned about the limited write erase cycles. ill be gaming on it btw. also wtf is with the drop in performance overtime? from what ive read there is a substantial loss in performance within 30 minutes and full effect of the slowdown is seen at ~50 minutes.

EarthDog · Jul 18, 2011

Smallest I would go is 60gb ssd for os and a couple apps. 90+ better.

Not sure what you are reading as far as peformance drops like that. Its simply not true. At all.

Don't worry about write cycles either.

Sounds like whatever.you are readinis a few years old.

marketpantry · Jul 18, 2011

EarthDog said:
Smallest I would go is 60gb ssd for os and a couple apps. 90+ better.

Not sure what you are reading as far as peformance drops like that. Its simply not true. At all.

Don't worry about write cycles either.

Sounds like whatever.you are readinis a few years old.

you seem somewhat bias on hybrid drives. what is your rationale behind avoiding them like the plague?

for hard drives youre supposed to keep at least 10% of the drive empty for optimal performance... is the same true for ssd?

Knufire · Jul 18, 2011

They're not worth the cost.

A lot of the issues with SSD's are resolved with the new ones.

And with the whole concept of hybrid drives, Intel has a new feature with their Z68 chipset that basically makes a hybrid drive in software, using a normal SSD and hard drive. It works MUCH better then hybrid drives. And if your thinking "why would I shell out for an SSD and use this if using the SSD like normal is faster", it's because the feature is optimized for cheap/small/used/old SSD's.

I have a 60GB with just Windows and Office, about half free. You know the feeling of a brand new install, everything opens on the dot and such? It feels faster then that, and never goes away.

stunt · Jul 20, 2011

I have one of those seagates in my laptop. Went with a 320 because the 500s were having failure and noise issues. It's nice for a spinner but not much faster than a standard 7200 on boot and load times.

Save up and get the real deal.

Metlcub · Jul 21, 2011

I use a 80gig OCZ vertex 2 for windows and a few games. then a 1tb drive for all my music, movies and the rest of my games. After 5 months with a SSD I will NEVER go back to windows being on a HDD drive. the performance with the SSD is just down right awesome. Virus scans take minutes and not hours, program updates are super fast. Win 7 boots super fast. so it's worth it to do a SSD+Hdd

marketpantry · Jul 21, 2011

Metlcub said:
I use a 80gig OCZ vertex 2 for windows and a few games. then a 1tb drive for all my music, movies and the rest of my games. After 5 months with a SSD I will NEVER go back to windows being on a HDD drive. the performance with the SSD is just down right awesome. Virus scans take minutes and not hours, program updates are super fast. Win 7 boots super fast. so it's worth it to do a SSD+Hdd

if my graphics card starts working normally im definitely going to get a 60-100 gb ssd. i fricken hate loadtimes on gta 4 and left 4 dead 2.

EarthDog · Jul 22, 2011

Your card is working normally.

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