Hybrid SSD Drives

Been looking at a few HDD's on Amazon and the price of the 500GB @$45.00 and the 1TB @ $64.00 is hard to pass up also have $110.00 in gift card cash just sitting there . The two drivers I am looking at are below. What do you guys think of the Hybrid drives ??

Descriptio
500GB Toshiba Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) combining the best of SSDs and traditional hard drives. Ultra-slim 7mm drive with 8GB built-in high-performance NAND SSD, and rotation speed of 5400rpm. SATA III 6Gbps interface, this hard drive is great for boosting performance of any notebook computer.

Description
The best of both worlds – HDD capacity meets SSD-like speed.
Western Digital Black WD10S21X 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHD) combine a generous amount of NAND flash SSD technology and massive HDD storage capacity into a single drive. The best combanation of SSD and HDD to produce a hybrid that can increase overall system performance – resulting in quicker system boots, faster application loads, and improved responsiveness when compared to traditional hard drives.

1TB Capacity, 64MB Buffer Size + 8GB NAND Flash Memory build-in a 2.5" HDD for ultra-performance to burst your Laptop/MacBook Or PS3/PS4 Game Console performance to highest level !!

 

I tried SSHDs and they werent downright terrible but werent really great either. They can make your OS boot faster, but when it comes to programs it really feels like a faster HDD. They are nowhere near close to SSD's in terms of performance unless we talk booting the OS, then they were closeish.

Depending on your usage I would consider the 1TB SSHD for raw data storage that doesn't require fast loading times or I would go for a WD Dual drive which has a 7200RPM 1TB drive and a 128GB SSD build it, so 1 drive that contains 2 drives, which is perfect for ultrabooks with only 1 slot for instance.

 

I personally find SSHDs pointless. In my experience they didn't provide much in the way of a performance improvement over a regular HDD and mine failed in 4 months of use. Safe to say I stick to SSDs or normal HDDs since then.

 

SSHD's have a high failure rate, the money is in SSD's for the future and the drive manufacturers know it, so they have been cutting corners and the failure rate is bad on any kind of spindle drives. I have certain brands of new drives failing in months. $129 for a new 480gb SSD.

I run that 480gb ssd and a 3TB WD Green

 

Thanks for the input guys. I have been running SSD's for 3 years now, mostly Samsung and Kingston and never had a problem. Guess I will stick too the real SSD's

 

I am running 2 SSD's in my CF52
On in the HDD caddy as a boot device and one in the DVD bay for storage. I am very spoiled by the speed.

I do have 2-3TB spinners in the NAS for now. With the 802.11AC 1300 Mbps setup, backing up to the NAS is MUCH faster than backing up direct to a usb stick (usb 2.0). A NAS running Linux is really the way to go for storage at home. Mine is plugged in to the router/gateway to get wireless access to it.

Yes I have an "issue" with local storage space. I suppose it's safer for me than getting drunk.

I have never really heard anything great about hybrid drives.

 

Blair,
I too am a believer in the Samsung and Kingston SSDs. The only ones I will use. I would also avoid the hybrid drives... Kerry's point is spot on!

 

Generally, most modern SSDs are very stable and reliable. 5-6 years ago it was the wild west and you had to be careful but nowadays, even off-brands like Mushkin are reliable enough for you to trust them. And as always, important data should have at least 1 back-up.

HDDs are also not bad by any means, WD Red and Seagate Ironwolf drives are incredibly resilient. I've personally dropped a WD Red from about 10cm and it didn't seem to care at all. The SSHD hybrids are the only ones where you have an unholy abomination.

 

I'm running four 3Tb WD Reds in my NAS for 9TB total storage on a hard wired network. I back up files for a local transit company and my own file storage.

 

Ummm.. as Clint Eastwood sez.