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HDD Vs. HDD for Secondary Storage Drive
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As the title says, I am looking to ascertain whether or not there is any significant benefit to my buying a hybrid drive instead of a traditional HDD, as a secondary storage solution.
I am looking to add a secondary drive with 2TB of storage. This will be mainly used to store the majority of my games, video files and ebooks/.pdfs. I may or may not move my iTunes installation to this hypothetical secondary drive, I haven't decided yet.
However, as all my OS files are currently contained within my SanDisk II 480GB SSD - along with all my music and certain games - is there any benefit to using a SSHD over a strictly mechanical drive?
I am looking to add a secondary drive with 2TB of storage. This will be mainly used to store the majority of my games, video files and ebooks/.pdfs. I may or may not move my iTunes installation to this hypothetical secondary drive, I haven't decided yet.
However, as all my OS files are currently contained within my SanDisk II 480GB SSD - along with all my music and certain games - is there any benefit to using a SSHD over a strictly mechanical drive?
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If I'm not mistaken, the drives should cache files you access most regularly on the SSD portion--so, in my case, the video I access most regularly, or disc images, etc.
It's a small difference, but it's not particularly obvious. You could easily overlook it. On the other hand, a pair of 8 TB of SSD space would cost as much as a used car (for example, in Samsung 850 Evo, that'd run you about $2,800.00 off Amazon, and those aren't even particularly fast SSDs). Obviously that's not practical.
I got those Seagates while they were heavily discounted--if you run into the same, by all means. But if you can get a conventional drive that meets your performance requirements at lower cost, go for it.
If you're looking to store game installations on the secondary drive then a hybrid drive might be worthwhile. The other data you're going to store on it won't benefit from a hybrid because they're mostly streaming things (video & audio) that a HDD's sequential read performance can keep up with and have no problems.