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are sshd's really worth it? are they anygood?
Apparently they work just as well as the Intel Rapid Storage technology.
Takes few OS starts and shutdown to reach full effect.
Standalone SSD is still better I say but if you have space or ports for ONE drive only, would make sense and difference.
Sadly can't share any personal experience, as I have none.
SSDs are great - I wholeheartedly recommend one - but they're pricey. SSHDs strike a very good balance between price, performance and capacity.
They're not bad, but I wouldn't pay the original price for them. However £59.99 HERE for a 500GB model is a nice price.
It's just a cache really, quite a small cache, which works similar to the stand alone cache drives from say Sandisk and Corsair.
I personally think they aren't worth it, unless used in a Laptop with only one space for a drive.
The thing is, a proper SSD gets performance from having *lots* of flash chips that it can read from at the same time using lots of flash channels.
Looking at that review, I can't see a bank of identical chips, so I guess just one of those is a flash chip.
So you don't get a hard drive and an SSD in one case, you get a hard drive and a USB stick in a case. Except if you actually bought a USB stick and a drive it would probably cost less and the PC could access both at the same time rather than them sharing a single SATA port.
But you'll not get anywhere near the performance of the hybrid drive
I think they're a good little product depending on the price difference compared to a big standard drive. If I was to replace my laptop drive I'd consider one.
Price difference is just too large.Originally Posted by Rob_B
But you'll not get anywhere near the performance of the hybrid drive
I think they're a good little product depending on the price difference compared to a big standard drive. If I was to replace my laptop drive I'd consider one.
Last drive I got on the cheap so went rotating media rather than SSD. A WD Black 500GB was £51 in 2.5in size, an extra 8 quid for the 3.5in so I got the laptop part as both had a 5 year warranty. I think at the time the 500GB SSHD was an extra 20 quid, only 3 year warranty and not in stock, so it lost on three counts or I might have bought one out of curiosity.
Just had a look, Novatech have 320GB at a reasonable cost of £42 or 1TB at Scan for a whopping £91.
Generally though, if you care about performance then get a proper SSD.
The problem with the SSHDs is that the cache is too small, that affects raw performance but more importantly you just can't keep a great deal of stuff in there. A separate drive working as a cache does work well (I'm using a now discontinued corsair accelerator) to good effect.
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