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animal66

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So anyone got any experience of solid state hybrid drives? Part solid state drive, part hard drive. Do they help the machine boot faster? Are they worth the money?

I do realise i could get a solid state drive and add a large hard drive, but i'm curious about these.

Any input would be great.
 
Kreubs

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I never used one, but my bro had one. AFAIK, it uses the solid state portion for caching. I hear they do help boot way faster, though.

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Once an sshd learns the boot sequence after a few boots, it can really help boot times.

Here's a video for reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gnm8bGFYvo
 
Joonikko

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Kreubs said:
They use £'s in the UK :p
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I know, but converting currencies, specially for technology prices is useless. Of course I could have gone and looked up the UK prices, but who has the time or willpower to do that?
 
Titoezz

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imo there's no point in getting a SSHD if you still have to manually manage files between the 2 drives.
If all you do it for is faster boot time it's fine, although a PITA cuz you'd need to relocate the entire OS and all it's extensions to the SSD part.
I'd personally wait a bit, wait till SSD prices drop a bit(which they will soon) and buy yourself a decent size SSD. All you windows guys have huge cases that fit a dozen drives anyway :p, can always later buy a normal HDD for backup/random shit.
 
Kreubs

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Titoezz said:
imo there's no point in getting a SSHD if you still have to manually manage files between the 2 drives.
If all you do it for is faster boot time it's fine, although a PITA cuz you'd need to relocate the entire OS and all it's extensions to the SSD part.
I'd personally wait a bit, wait till SSD prices drop a bit(which they will soon) and buy yourself a decent size SSD. All you windows guys have huge cases that fit a dozen drives anyway :p, can always later buy a normal HDD for backup/random shit.
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Um, no.

The ssd portion is a cache. It's temporary storage for the most accessed files. The system handles that automatically.
 
Titoezz

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DamageINC said:
That's why you were wrong. :K
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I'm actually glad Kreubs corrected me, would have felt really bad for all you windows guys if it wasn't actually done automatically. Such a great feat to miss out on as a windows user, happy u guys are able to join the party on this one atleast.
 
DamageINC

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Well, my windows can automatically run 95% of the games on the market in HD @ max settings. For half the price. At minimum.
 
Kreubs

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It's actually the controller on the drive that manages it. #Hardware

Windows already does a good job at doing things automatically. Most problems are caused by that thing that sits between the keyboard and the chair. :p

OT: yes, sshd's help boot/program load time if you don't want to go ssd.
 
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WaLLy

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our MC server has an SSHD. Boot times are much better compared to the HDD it had. However, since it's a headless server, I don't notice much of any difference since I don't use it on a day to day. Any MC users even remember the difference while gaming?
 
NickHouston

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I would one day like the convenience of an ssd solely for booting. However a 7200RPM mechanical HDD is fast enough for me. Nothing below that though lol.
 
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