hybrid hard drives

hornetstinger · 19 Mar 2020 at 11:07

With hybrid drives, I believe they have a small amount off nand which the hd controller determines what is placed there, presume most accessed files?

Is it possible for a hybrid to have 64gb of flash, you can then partition this as c: for windows drive, which is just enough for windows 10 with about 20gb free (I have a couple of old 64gb add so I know remaining space) and then on the hybrid spinner your partition that for music,videos, documents, photos etc.

UnworthyBean · 19 Mar 2020 at 11:15

Unless you've got no space to put one in, this completely defeats the purpose of the SSHD. Just get a separate SSD and HDD.

Although to answer the question, don't believe there are any now. There were a few in earlier days that you could use them separately.

hornetstinger · 19 Mar 2020 at 11:19

For a laptop so single drive unless can convert optical bay to second hd

EsaT · 19 Mar 2020 at 17:39

SSHDs are way too expensive for their tiny (8GB) NAND cache.
You're better of taking separate SSD and HDD and using PrimoCache to use part of SSD as cache for HDD...
Or more precisely for HDD partitions/"drive letters".
Meaning you could use it only for caching partition/drive holding games etc and leaving media storage partition outside caching to increase caching effiency.

Also with increased size of SSDs usefulness of SSHDs even for laptops starts to be questionable.
Already because of adding HDDs vulnerability to bumps.