Or Hybrid one,...
So what is best performing 2 TB Mechanical HD or possibly Hybrid one, would hybrid be noticeably faster in games I wonder? When I say faster I mean load time too of course.
Hi Katanga,
considering a SSHD if you are only looking for a single drive is actually not the worst idea!
Whether you buy the SSD or SSHD first depends on your needs. SSD is obviously going to be unmatched for performance increase, but the cost can be a bit prohibitive. SSHD drives like the listed FireCuda have an 8GB SSD cache which the drive firmware determines files/data that is accessed frequently and puts them on the SSD cache portion so they load faster, and then utilizes the rest of the storage, which is spinning disk, for any other data, so it just depends on how much space you feel you will need right off the bat as far as storage goes.
Our
SSHD's have recently been upgraded to store even more data with our 4TB drive, so basically what you get is increased performance over a "regular" HDD with the benefit of having up to 4TB of storage!
Also, if you'd like a little more information on how these drives stack up performance-wise, here are a couple of charts we would like to share. The first one compares startup times across several popular games across a traditional spinning 7200 RPM HDD, our SSHD, and an M.2 SSD (128GB). The white is for SSD, the orange for our SSHD, and the grey for the 7200 spinning HDD:
Startup Times
The next one compares the first 3 days of gaming storage utilization across several popular titles, and SYSmark ratings from various drive types and combinations. First of the grays is 7200 RPM 1TB spinning HDD, second (lightest gray) is our SSHD, third (darkest gray) is an SSD + 7200 RPM HDD combo, purple is SSD + our SSHD combo, and lastly blue is SSD:
First 3 Days Gaming Storage Utilization
We hope that helps - enjoy your new drive!