Are hybrid hard drives any good?

[Val]

I have been looking for an SSD to use alongside by 1tb HDD, and while i was looking i found a hybrid drive for cheaper than a normal SSD. Should i go with a regular SSD or get a hybrid?

[Buck]

They're a good compromise for the pricing. My current laptop, (which I don't use for gaming) came with an .m2 ssd, but in my last one an older model Segate drive proved to be a nice reasonably priced upgrade compared to the stock 5400RPM drive it had originally.

[Omega]

Hybrid drives are like all HDDs dirt slow compared to SSDs.

The only stuff it can load somewhat fast is the stuff which is cached in it's flash memory which is only a few GBs large. For gaming/home use don't bother with SSHD drives, either get an SSD or a fast HDD when looking for performance.

[Val]

Originally posted by Omega:

Hybrid drives are like all HDDs dirt slow compared to SSDs.

The only stuff it can load somewhat fast is the stuff which is cached in it's flash memory which is only a few GBs large. For gaming/home use don't bother with SSHD drives, either get an SSD or a fast HDD when looking for performance.

mkay, I'll check out more SSDs but if i cant find a good one for a decent price i'll get a hybrid

[Kaihekoa]

Better off spending more money on a proper SSD instead of hybrid rubbish.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Originally posted by Dragon:

I have been looking for an SSD to use alongside by 1tb HDD, and while i was looking i found a hybrid drive for cheaper than a normal SSD. Should i go with a regular SSD or get a hybrid?

If you already have a HDD if you want a hybrid and your motherboard support it then I'd say get SSD and use part of it as rapid storage technology or whatever it's called / cache for your HDD or get an Optane stick for the same purpose if new enough computer.

If you didn't already had the 1 TB drive I would recommend to get at-least 2 TB instead due to the very small cost increase.

But yeah I'd recommend SSD/Optane + HDD over SSHD but I've totally fine with you using them as SSHD once you've bought them rather than as separate drives. But I'd roll my own that way.

[InfinityJosh]

SSD if you have money is better, if not an used velociraptor is not bad, if you could find at a decent price.
SSHDD is slightly faster than HDD but more expensive than an used velociraptor.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Backblaze had 11% failures of harddrives after three years of usage or something? Or was it 8? five years? Anyway some drives died early and then they were doing fine for a while and then they started to fail when they got older.

As for all that has been said before if you load many GB of data then an HDD reading at 200 MB/s or SATA SSD at 450 or 500 MB/s doesn't matter all that much.

If you read very small file fragments at <1 MB/s vs 80 or whatever though ..

What you'd wish for for the combinations is to get those tiny bits on and read from the SSD and the large stuff can remain on HDD.

Of course an M.2 drive is even faster.