Conteplating SSHD for Laptop with i5 processor

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JTD777

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Hello all,

I am looking into optimization options for my Acer Aspire One 5742Z laptop, and think that a clean install would benefit me the most, along with a RAM and hard drive upgrade. Since my laptop only supports 2 RAM cards, I am planning on getting a 2x4 RAM system, but don't know which SSHD would be the most effective for the price. I am looking for a 500 GB - 1 TB drive.

If anyone could post links to the most cost effective SSHDs I would really appreciate it :)

-- JT
 
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Tom Tancredi
Actually a SSHD does NOT increase performance, because they are used on 5400RPM drives, not 7200RPM drives to increase performance. As they use a slow spin drive to put the SSD Cache on, all it does is increase a 5400RPM to a little faster (3-5 second by many personal accounts posted) over a standard 7200RPM. A SSD MLC (the current version) had a longer lifespan than the original unless your doing 100s of GBs per day every day for a year or more constant read / writes. A SSD (as I have in my own system) significantly increases loading performance of applications and OSes, but none of the drives (HDD, SSHD nor SSD) will increase the performance OF the program. So for example, if rendering a CAD schema to the screen from a SSHD is...
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Actually you be wasting time and money trying to upgrade that low end old system (yes I know it has only been 2 years but just keep reading please). By the time you buy the memory to increase it, as well as swap the HDD out, you could spend the same or LESS money getting a i3 Core laptop WITH 8GB of RAM and 500+GB drive from Walmart.com for $249 or LESS. In fact now till the week of Black Friday is the prime time to scoop up discounted stuff for Back to School, then to make room for the Black Friday-Holiday stock.

I personally got my wife's i5 Core, with 8GB of RAM, Win7, 320GB and about 3Lbs 15"screen for $249 at Fry's Electronics, then bought a 1TB drive for $49 for back up - excess storage.

A SSHD is the replacement model for the 7200RPM drives Seagate no longer makes. It is actually a 5400RPM drive with a small SSD front end to cache common used files to 'speed it up' to a little faster then a 7200RPM performed. Only a real SSD itself will provide INSTANT- Near Instant booting / program loading, NOT a SSHD.
 
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I have done my research on these drives, and I like the idea of using the SSHD because SSDs do not have the lifespan of HDDs and increases performance enough to make a difference to a computer engineer like myself.
 
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Actually a SSHD does NOT increase performance, because they are used on 5400RPM drives, not 7200RPM drives to increase performance. As they use a slow spin drive to put the SSD Cache on, all it does is increase a 5400RPM to a little faster (3-5 second by many personal accounts posted) over a standard 7200RPM. A SSD MLC (the current version) had a longer lifespan than the original unless your doing 100s of GBs per day every day for a year or more constant read / writes. A SSD (as I have in my own system) significantly increases loading performance of applications and OSes, but none of the drives (HDD, SSHD nor SSD) will increase the performance OF the program. So for example, if rendering a CAD schema to the screen from a SSHD is compared to that of a SSD, your talking the differences of waiting 12-17 minutes to render (SSHD) as compared to 2-3 minutes (SSD) from the real world tests done. But if your talking calculating the entire length of materials used in a CAD schema, then neither will improve the time to calculate.
 
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The only thing that makes an SSD not worth it is the $400+ price tag. I just put one into my desktop as a boot drive, and enjoy the performance increase, but I had a much larger budget for my tower as opposed to this laptop.
 
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