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    Explain the Hybrid Hard Drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by SkyBowler, Mar 31, 2012.

  1. SkyBowler

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    I am getting the dv6t quad edition. Should I get the Hybird Hard Drive for 50 more bucks? I am going to use laptop for some gaming (starcraft 2 and diablo 3), video editing, schoolwork, etc. What are the pros and cons of the hybrid hard drive? It will be 750 GB 7200 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive. I googled it and I am still confused, can someone simplify and try to explain it to me, thanks.
     
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    Thanks, but still a little confused lol. Do you know of any cons of choosing the hybrid hard drive besides the price?
     
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    There are cons vs a SSD, but compared to a normal platter HDD, i don't really see any other cons than the price. Note that the writes to the drive will not be affected by the NAND cache and it will take a couple of times launching windows and your most used programs for the drive to get read performance close to that of a SSD.
     
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    yea its either a HDD or the hybrid, way too much money for the SSD and i need space for videos and pictures. Thanks for the help.
     
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    If you haven't already, consider a small SSD for your boot / windows / apps drive and a hard drive for storage. If you have an optical drive (DVD or Blu-Ray) you can swap it out for an hdd adapter. This way you can buy a 60GB SSD for Windows and apps, and the hard drive for storage and games. Best of both worlds.
     
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    A good idea that was never developed enough to pay off. Too bad.
     
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    So its not possible to put the OS on the 8gb SSD side and everything else on the HDD part? Like you cant separate them as two drives?
     
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    or you can just create a ramdisk that light speed faster then a SSD. There's software that does exactly what the hybrid drive does, "manages using some sort of algorithm to determine what it keeps in there for fast access".
     
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