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Has anyone used or has any experience (good or bad) with this type of hybrid drives?
The thing is that I just ran out of one of my 2.5" external storage drives and taking advantage of the occasion I had thought about upgrading the drive of my laptop and leaving the one it currently has as an external.
What I need is a minimum of 250 GB in a laptop (See the Asus in the signature) that I only use occasionally and for not demanding tasks. For that reason I consider that it would not amortize the approximately 150€ that a SSD costs.
Looking for alternatives I have seen these drives that integrate an 8 GB SSD that improves the access performance and a 1 TB magnetic one that serves as current storage.
The truth is that for just over 90€ I would double the capacity and slightly improve the performance (although this is not my priority). But I have doubts, or rather lack of information about their reliability and real performance... which we all know that numbers are great, but then reality is what counts. ;D
This would be the drive in question.
I would appreciate all kinds of opinions and/or suggestions. Thanks.
Best regards
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Precisely for a laptop, the best option would be a 100% SSD due to the movements and shocks, unless it won't be moved from the table. One of the cheap ones will do.
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and for battery life as well.
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For the moment I am not worried about autonomy, nor about getting more performance. It's an i5 with 8gb that he uses for text editing with Office or In design and some light retouching with Photoshop. For demanding tasks I use the i7 860.
Normally it is at home or in offices with available sockets. It is not a device that is out on the street all day.
For that reason and for the price/Gb I do not consider SSDs an option. Either I buy another 2.5 disk to put it in the case or one of these to make the change with the laptop.
Another thing would be if he needed to increase performance because the laptop is going downhill or if he needed the battery to last all day, then the only logical option would be the SSD.From Tapatalk for Zx Spectrum
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An i5 with 8 gigs of ram for editing text… several insults come to mind.
Then a normal hard drive of the capacity you need and start racking up miles.
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Well, I sometimes use virtual machines too, but on the laptop I do it on rare occasions.
The truth is that as the laptop is, it works well for me.
But my interest is in whether anyone knows firsthand about these types of disks and their reliability.
Anyway, I was going to buy a new 2.5" disk to put it as an external and replace the one that has broken, but I am curious about this hybrid option. Hence my question.From Tapatalk for Zx Spectrum
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Well, I'm not going to resolve your doubt, because I haven't tasted them. But according to what I understand, and it's the flaw I see in them, is that you can't choose what goes on the 8 gigas SSD. It's a software that keeps moving the most used files to the fastest part of the disk, pure cache style we're talking about. Anyway, I don't know for sure, nor if it's like that in all models or if there's some way to modify it. -
Yes, I think you're right. The SSD part of the disk acts as a cache for the HDD (an 8gb cache), speeding up its response. They do not act as two "separate" drives.
My main concern is the reliability of that controller that manages both disks. Even more so seeing how the SSDs with Sandforce failed.From Tapatalk for Zx Spectrum
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If you want performance over 75 bucks you have 1TB and 2.5" USB 3 case, 55 more and you have a 64GB M4, if the budget reaches 85 you have a 120 EVO with better price/mega.
If you want redundancy and capacity for little money you can get 1TB for laptop and 1TB + 3.5" case.
Anyway, you will see according to the need for performance, capacity and pocket, I am not convinced by the hybrids.
Editing: Have you thought about the possibility of removing the recorder to put an SSD?
Look how stupid I am :ugly: I have just read the whole message, you can get 500 or 750GB at 7,200, a solution halfway between leaving money on SSDs and putting a 5,400 a bit cheaper and lazier.
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If you've had one of the 2.5 ones crash, you'll know what I'm talking about, they die in a few years and on a laptop when they start to degrade the performance drops. Since I've had a laptop with an SSD, it's been smooth sailing and no problems, that's why when I think about a drive for a laptop I always prioritize durability.
Of course I live with 64GB on my laptop and I don't need more, obviously if you need space and performance in a single 2.5 drive the best option will be one of these hybrids, I don't think they have problems like the sandforce ones. If you don't mind sacrificing a little performance, a good conventional drive will do, bearing in mind that now they're almost as fast as the 3.5 ones and with 8GB of RAM I don't think it will abuse virtual memory.
Now if you don't need much storage and you want reliability and speed an SSD, don't hesitate. And not the fastest one, as it can always affect stability, one that is reliable with memory that lasts for years is all you need and you forget about looking for TRIM and various optimizations.
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one that is reliable with memory that lasts for years is all you need and you forget about looking for TRIM and various optimizations.
Any particular brand/model? I say this because I am saving for a new PC and the system would be on a 30-60GB SSD
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