Hey guys, I am in the process of building my new rig. It is based on an X99 deluxe MoBo with the i7 5820k. I already have a plextor M6e m.2 ssd for my OS drive and i am looking for a primary storage drive. I was thinking of getting the Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive for ~100usd, but i haven't heard/seen the best reviews of them. I am also having issues finding a different 2+TB SSHD if i decide not to go with the seagate. My steam account is roughly 850GB and i have other games and software so it does need to be at least a 2TB drive and after spending on the rest of the build i'm running out of budget. Any advice from the pros here at the Tek would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
SSHD are better used as boot drives, if you are looking for storage alone, something like a WD Black/Red is plenty sufficient.
I've used SSHDs myself and I love them. They are perfect when you are on an extremely strict budget but you want the fastest boot times possible.
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I've had one in my computer for a couple years and has worked flawlessly, when I built the computer SSDs were still pretty high priced so like a idiot I bought a small 128g SSD to use as a boot drive which has worked fine except that everything else has been installed to the hybrid drive.
WD Blues are fine for storage. Avoid the Greens.
Black is for preformance, good if you want fast loading times or are video editing.
Thanks everyone for the response. I do a little bit of video editing and 3d modeling, but i am hoping to get into it more now that i have a beefier machine, it is however primarily a gaming rig i suppose. Basically what i'm hearing is that since i have an m.2 OS drive its better to just get a quality HD for storage and not bother with a hybrid because it doesn't improve performance that much. Or am i misunderstanding?
Well I had a HDD only in my laptop and after putting the os ona a SSD, the HDD felt a lot quicker (I use it to store games and media, programs are on SSD). When the OS in on the HDD, it pefrorms reads and writes on the HDD, which then slow down your usage, but it is faster when only used for reading or writing larger files (over a few MB).
A SSHD is a HDD with a small SSD cache for reading and storing frequently used files, which are usually many small OS and program files. But games today are bigger than most SSHD caches.
If you also defrag the HDD regularly, you will be satisfied with this setup. And as a bonus you can probably get a 3 TB HDD for the price of a 2 TB SSHD. Just don´t buy Seagate ;)
I had one of the first hybrid drives, was ok at the time as for speed vs storage is was appealing.
With ssd prices so low now - a 250gb ssd (like a 850 evo) + 2tb 7200rpm hdd makes for a great mix.
250gb is plenty for the OS + a few select games (I use an app called steamover to shift shit across from one drive to another).
I would only ever get a hybrid hdd again if I needed bulk storage on a laptop and couldnt afford a 1tb ssd. Desktop use, I cant really see a use for em anymore.