need new internal HDD

**Bytemrk** · 13th March 2015, 12:10 PM

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

**incisor** · 13th March 2015, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

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"

**Bytemrk** · 13th March 2015, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by incisor

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

triffic...

**Eevo** · 13th March 2015, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

But then I'm a little addicted to speed

sounds like you need a pci-e ssd

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

**Bytemrk** · 13th March 2015, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by Eevo

sounds like you need a pci-e ssd

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

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

**Eevo** · 13th March 2015, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

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

whats the size of that thing?

**Bytemrk** · 13th March 2015, 07:13 PM

512Gig

**disco gazza** · 13th March 2015, 08:01 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

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

cheers

**Bytemrk** · 13th March 2015, 08:14 PM

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** · 15th March 2015, 10:16 PM

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.

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