need new internal HDD

[disco gazza]

I think my internal HDD is getting close to failure.
What would be better.....another HDD or an SSD.
Its for a laptop(samsung).

cheers

[spudboy]

Hi Gazza - do some research on Hybrid disk drives. They have both SSD and a normal platter. I put one in my laptop - big improvement.

The HDD decides what goes where by looking at file usage/frequency. It tries the SSD first, and if it is not there it goes to the HDD. All data is kept on the traditional platter so even if the SSD part goes wrong, the data is still there.

Laptop SSHD: 1TB HDD Laptop Upgrade, Hybrid Hard Drive | Seagate (http://www.seagate.com/au/en/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybrid/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/?cmpid=ppc-_-AUNZ|EN|Core|SSHD-_-G-_-AUNZ-_-momentus%20xt%20hybrid-_-b)

[p38arover]

I use a hybrid drive in my desktop for my boot disk. It has sped up booting. The OS is on the SSD portion.

[disco gazza]

Thanks guys

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[Eevo]

ssd for the win!

but it depends how much storage space you need and how deep your packets are.

[Bytemrk]

.......and how old the Samsung Laptop is.;)

[incisor]

ssd for the win!

but it depends how much storage space you need and how deep your packets are.

not to mention how reliable you want it to be...

[Eevo]

not to mention how reliable you want it to be...

never had an issues with any of my SDD's

[disco gazza]

I'd like it to be super reliable.😄

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[incisor]

never had an issues with any of my SDD's
your obviously special, it seems..

[Bytemrk]

never had an issues with any of my SDD's

How about your SSD's :p

Disco Gazza, how old is the laptop?

[Eevo]

How about your SSD's :p

Disco Gazza, how old is the laptop?

ah, sorry, i just love double Dees

[disco gazza]

Laptop is 4 years old.

[Eevo]

i put an SSD into my 5 year old laptop only a few months ago
great boot times.

[AndyG]

Apparently if you take an SSD past 75% they crap out. Or so hands on trial, :angel: , and Dealer advice indicates.

[Eevo]

Apparently if you take an SSD past 75% they crap out. Or so hands on trial, :angel: , and Dealer advice indicates.

that def used to be a problem. im not sure if it still happens with the latest gen of ssd's


by crap out, you do mean slow down until you free up some space

[incisor]

they die way to often... fine as a boot drive but i certainly wont use them to store critical data... okay for home if your backed up well.

[Eevo]

they die way to often... fine as a boot drive but i certainly wont use them to store critical data... okay for home if your backed up well.

i assume you have a much sample size than my 5 ssd's

[incisor]

i assume you have a much sample size than my 5 ssd's
no need to assume big fella....

have had to play with many hundreds over time..

built many a graphics workstation and high end business machine with them, but you need to work with in their limitations and take advantage of their strong points.

i use one in my own machine as well, in the manner mentioned above

boot from it and have pretty much anything that i need to keep mapped over to a raid array

much easier to have a safe place than try to recover that which is lost.

[rar110]

I put an SSD into my wife's 5 yr old Asus. I'm expecting that to extend its life by 2-3 years.

I upgraded to a SSD in my MacBook. I use time machine to back up to a NAS. This SSD 95% full. I need to rejig my system so most stuff is on the NAS.

[Bytemrk]

Interesting to hear Dave,

I'm running SSD as a boot drive in a couple of desktops at home and my last 2 Macbooks are both SSD , absolutely love them...

.... but I am pretty careful about ensuring I have adequate backup of anything of value.

We recently set up an HP server with a SSD array, will be interesting to watch the life cycle of those drives...

A lot of the new laptops that we are using at work are coming with hybrid drives that seem to work pretty well.

Disco Gazza, it obviously comes back to how much storage you need and how well you backup anything critical on the machine, but with a 4 y.o. laptop, I'd still be tempted..

But then I'm a little addicted to speed :angel: :twisted:

[incisor]

We recently set up an HP server with a SSD array, will be interesting to watch the life cycle of those drives...
you may not need to big a bag of popcorn depending on how it was "arranged"

:D

[Bytemrk]

you may not need to big a bag of popcorn depending on how it was "arranged"

:D

triffic... :rolleyes:

[Eevo]

But then I'm a little addicted to speed :angel: :twisted:

sounds like you need a pci-e ssd

:D


not fast boot up, but very fast access n transfer speeds.
1.5gbyte/s read/write

[Bytemrk]

sounds like you need a pci-e ssd

:D

not fast boot up, but very fast access n transfer speeds.
1.5gbyte/s read/write

:D The PCIe Flash drive in my Macbook is fast... but not quite that fast :angel:

[Eevo]

:D The PCIe Flash drive in my Macbook is fast... but not quite that fast :angel:

whats the size of that thing?

[Bytemrk]

512Gig

[disco gazza]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

I'll be buying a hybrid sshd.
Is Seagate the only one with these hybrids?

cheers

[Bytemrk]

Pretty sure Western Digital do them as well.

Can't give you personal experience which may be better... the ones I play with come supplied by HP in the new Laptops we are currently buying...

[giskard]

I'm a fan of no moving parts in a laptop drive. If you do go SSD, make sure the O/S supports Trim and also turn off defrag. I've generally had a good run with SSD's.

[Eevo]

, make sure the O/S supports Trim and also turn off defrag. I've generally had a good run with SSD's.

windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 all do this.