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Solve : HDD vs SSDHD for laptop? |
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Answer» Help me choose! I have a 5 year old Dell laptop, Core 2 duo, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd, that I picked up used a couple of years ago, and it had never been used much, but now I have been playing around with it, and I have set it up as a dual-boot machine, the OEM XP SP3, and OpenSuse 13.2, with the HDD split, 50% for Windows, 50% for Linux. Some more disk space would be nice, and a local store has a 500GB Toshiba SSHD (hybrid) for a good price, $55 equivalent, but I noticed for very little more, $70, I could get a 1 TB conventional HD. Since storage is not an issue for you if it were me i'd go for the higher speeds of the Hybrid... A 480 GB SSD from the same store is $211. This takes the expenditure out of the "pocket money" level, and although I can afford it, I do not think it is justified for what is really just a toy. Understood... Although i seem to remember reading overall performance is better on full SSD's vs. Hybrids... Quote from: patio on January 11, 2015, 09:19:15 AM Understood...Yes, I am running a full SSD on my main desktop machine, and I would never go back. Would you really need/require 500g for the laptop ? ?...you could move down to a 256 for "pocket money"... Just a thought. Quote from: patio on January 11, 2015, 09:19:15 AM Understood... Much, much better - I wouldn't consider a hybrid drive myself and have never recommended one for that reason, they're essentially 8GB of SSD storage tacked onto a laptop HDD. The SSHD will be a little FASTER than the HDD, sure, but as the 8GB is basically just a cache, if you're botting between OSes etc then I would imagine it won't perform optimally - as in, the SSD-like speeds will only be apparent when loading from this 8GB cache, otherwise it's just hitting a 500GB laptop HDD. The SSHD will be faster than a typical 500GB HDD overall so I agree with patio, if you don't need the additional storage it makes sense to buy the SSHD vs the HDD - but if it was me I would either get a 500GB HDD for cheaper or get a real SSD, I really don't have a PLACE for SSHDs but that's just my opinion.I'd go with a pure SSD vs a Hybrid. A friend of mine got a Hybrid drive and what stinks is that it doesnt allow for you to self manage what data is on the SSD portion from that of what is on the HDD portion, so the SSD portion which is self managed actually just kind of acts as a large cache. With how cheap SSD's are these days, i have been converting many older systems over to SSD's and some with both SSD and a HDD such as in desktops were I want speed + storage capacity, but also dont want to spend crazy amounts of money that I need for other bills etc, so i have been picking up SSDs in the 40 to 240GB capacity for all under $120 USD with the 40GB SSD's being like $34.99 USD. So if you just want fast boot and fast windows performance you can place that on SSD and the data and programs that dont need to load fast onto a HDD for a desktop computer; but given you can only have a single drive you will want to go with probably a 90 to 240GB SSD, depending on what data you are storing on it or how large programs are etc. On my netbook i swapped out the 160GB SATA 5400rpm drive with a 60GB SSD, and for extra storage capacity for my data i made use of the internal SD Card Reader that it has and so i took a 32GB SD Card that I picked up for like $18 and placed that into the slot and am using that as a slower data storage drive that travels along with the netbook tucked into the front corner out of the way. If you have a SD Card Reader on this laptop and its otherwise not used and you want to have additional data storage you could always just pop a 32 or 64 or larger SD Card into that slot and have a data storage location off the main drive. I am actually using this as a Poor Mans RAID also in which I have data mirrored with a BATCH FILE that compares and updates between the SSD and SD Card on every start up. And if I have worked on anything important that I want to make sure is backed up, i just manually run this batch file to make the data the same at both C: SSD drive and D: SD Card of the netbook.I tried a Hybrid about 4 months ago...i wound up selling it for what i could get. Quote from: patio on January 11, 2015, 09:55:52 AM Would you really need/require 500g for the laptop ? ?...you could move down to a 256 for "pocket money"...Just a thought. I don't really need 500 GB; it's just that the smallest 2.5 inch hard drives I can find locally to buy in a store are 500 GB. I can get a 500 GB hybrid or plain hdd for the same price, 40 UK pounds, $55, but on Amazon UK I see a 250 GB 7200 rpm drive for £18.99 (about $28.72) so maybe I will go that way, 128 GB for Windows and 128 GB for OpenSuSe. But then you have to pay for delivery, whereas the electronics store is next door to my office. Then ask them what they want for a 256 G SSD... That should suit your needs nicely...I won't be buying an SSD for this machine. Not yet, anyhow. It would be a colossal waste of money. It is a 2009 Dell business laptop, a Latitude D-830 with a 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, and (at present) an 80 GB hard drive. About 2 and a half years ago I bought a Chinese tablet via Amazon Marketplace; it failed after 3 weeks, the replacement was DOA, so I asked for and got a full refund, and bought the used Dell with the money. I thought my girlfriend might like top use it when I was using the main desktop machine, and well, maybe a spare computer would be handy. As it happens, my girlfriend hates laptops, and so do I. It has lain unused until I started playing with it a couple of weeks ago. I have connected it to our home network, and I am playing around with it using Remote Desktop. For storage it can access multiple terabytes on the NAS. For me, it is just a toy, like a Raspberry Pi would be. In fact I might just delete OpenSuse and restore the full 80 GB to Windows. Using that logic...why even buy a hybrid then ?> ? Quote from: patio on January 12, 2015, 05:09:32 PM Using that logic...why even buy a hybrid then ?> ? Exactly. This is what I have decided. Hybrids are a waste of time. In fact I will buy nothing. I will not waste money pimping up this second - line machine. |
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