Hybrid vs standard drive

[Lekner]

At the moment I'm intent on replacing my desktops secondary drive, but i'm having a little bit of an internal battle over whether to pick-up a standard 1tb 7200rpm or a hybrid.

The drive's primary purpose will be for games , reencodes and future work. does the performance inprovement for a hybrid over a traditional drive warrant the extra cost.

Any and all help/advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[tamzzy]

1) how much are you willing to spend?
2) how much space will you realistically use?
3) are you going to be hdd thrashing, or are you going to store large files?

if you're going to store large files/media, then a bog standard hdd is enough
if you're going to thrash the hdd with i/o then the sshd may be a better bet, but then a secondary ssd would be a much better choice, but then there's the price/size tradeoff

 

[Rroff]

Hybrid drives over a standard mechanical usually:

Decently improve OS booting performance i.e. if your OS takes 40 seconds to boot on a standard drive you could get it down to say 19 seconds on a hybrid and 11 seconds on a proper SSD.

Mixed results with game load times - games you regularly play will typically see around 20-30% faster load times whereas with an SSD that can easily be in the 150-300% faster region.

Encoding and other media type work will see minor to 0 improvements and take little benefit from a hybrid drive.

EDIT: As your not using it as an OS drive you lose one of the biggest benefits over a standard drive.

 

[Lekner]

Thanks's for the quick replies, I think that has pretty much answered the question, standard drive it is.
If this was reddit I'd give you both an upvote.

 

[tamzzy]

we aim to please xD lol