4TB hard drive

In the market for initially one 4Tb hard drive, then another to back it up to.
What are peoples thoughts on the Toshiba hybrids? As they seem the cheapest currently.

Eventually it will all be replaced with 8Tb or larger units and backups, but currently budget constraints mean I can only purchase a smaller drive.

unless you repeatedly access the same files hybrid isn't worth it, unless its an os drive, but most people buy an ssd for the os

I am aware of this, but looking at ocuk prices the tosh hybrid is cheaper than anything by wd or the others.

Can you link the drive I can't see a 4tb Toshiba hybrid on OCUK?

Couple of months back I bought a Seagate 4Tb hybrid drive. So far so good.

Woops
It was the Seagate
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seag...-st4000dx001-sshd-hybrid-drive-hd-296-se.html

Either way, pull trigger or not?

-edit, I still do not understand how external drives at 4Tb are cheaper than internals.
No matter the brand the breed or the type, that which is stuffed inside an enclosure always seems cheaper.

I would bother with it, being a slow 5900 rpm drive certianly doesn't help.

I'd recommend the Tohisba X300 4TB 7200RPM 128MB

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tosh...rmance-hard-drive-hdwe140ezsta-hd-042-ts.html

Very good performance, I have 2 of the 6TB versions at home and a 3TB & 6TB at work.

If your motherboard chipset supports Intel Rapid Storage Technology then it's probably worth your while buying a 'green' 4TB HDD and pairing it with a cheap but fast SSD of between 60 and 120GB* capacity as a caching drive using Intel Smart Response Technology.

You'd get SSD-like performance nearly always combined with low power consumption for 'sensible' money. This kind of setup is much faster than a standard SSHD solution in terms of performance if a reasonably fast SSD is used.

More info here: http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/architecture-and-technology/smart-response-technology.html

*Only the first 64GB can be directly accessed by ISRT, but the extra capacity a 120GB SSD provides gives plenty of over-provisioning to maintain fresh-out-of-box IOPS performance indefinitely with zero maintenance.

Before and after benchmarks using an ancient 2TB Hitachi Coolspin HDD with a 120GB Integral P Series 4 SSD and IRST/ISRT...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6DGwrXwCpAoZ25KMHU1N0pxWVk

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6DGwrXwCpAobzQtdDlKRUg2MWs