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January 11, 2014 4:02:02 PM

What's going on guys, So I'm building a budget PC.
Would it make more sense to go with;
1) Western Digital 500gb 7200rpm 64mb cache (Black edition)
2) Seagate 500gb 5400rpm 64mb cache Hybrid SSHD - It has a small SSD storage built in

I would of thought option two would make sense because boot up speed and program loading times would be better. The is nearly no price difference so what's your thoughts?
Many thanks,
Danny

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a c 954 G Storage
January 11, 2014 4:10:46 PM

What will this be used for?
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a c 954 G Storage
January 11, 2014 4:19:23 PM

DarkLightFX said:
USAFRet said:
What will this be used for?


Budget Gaming PC
This is the current rig - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2zIXE


Consider a WD Blue instead of the Black. Same performance, cheaper, shorter warranty.
I'm not a fan of those hybrids, especially married to a 5400 RPM drive.
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January 11, 2014 4:20:24 PM

USAFRet said:
DarkLightFX said:
USAFRet said:
What will this be used for?


Budget Gaming PC
This is the current rig - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2zIXE


Consider a WD Blue instead of the Black. Same performance, cheaper, shorter warranty.
I'm not a fan of those hybrids, especially married to a 5400 RPM drive.


What does the RPM Affect?
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a c 954 G Storage
January 11, 2014 4:27:43 PM

DarkLightFX said:
USAFRet said:
DarkLightFX said:
USAFRet said:
What will this be used for?


Budget Gaming PC
This is the current rig - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2zIXE


Consider a WD Blue instead of the Black. Same performance, cheaper, shorter warranty.
I'm not a fan of those hybrids, especially married to a 5400 RPM drive.


What does the RPM Affect?


Theoretically, anything the cache does not know about will be slower on the 5400 vs a 7200 RPM drive.
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a c 971 G Storage
January 11, 2014 4:49:27 PM

You cannot control what the SSD part of Seagates hybrid drives will store. It will most definitely give you quicker boot times because it will cache windows boot files & drivers but after that its pretty much a case of which files get used the most. In the case of a game always loading different graphics none of them are likely to get cached and that means they would load off the harddrive part of it.

Hopefully that clears up why USAFRet recommended the WD Blue instead.

Seagate does make a desktop 7200rpm SSHD, its the st1000dx001 but its $100
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January 11, 2014 4:52:02 PM

popatim said:
You cannot control what the SSD part of Seagates hybrid drives will store. It will most definitely give you quicker boot times because it will cache windows boot files & drivers but after that its pretty much a case of which files get used the most. In the case of a game always loading different graphics none of them are likely to get cached and that means they would load off the harddrive part of it.

Hopefully that clears up why USAFRet recommended the WD Blue instead.

Seagate does make a desktop 7200rpm SSHD, its the st1000dx001 but its $100


In that case, would it be worth spending them extra pennies to get the 7200rpm SSHD.
Or just stick to a 7200rpm HDD?
Many thanks for your reply, really cleared things up.
Appreciate it
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a c 954 G Storage
January 11, 2014 4:58:53 PM

DarkLightFX said:
popatim said:
You cannot control what the SSD part of Seagates hybrid drives will store. It will most definitely give you quicker boot times because it will cache windows boot files & drivers but after that its pretty much a case of which files get used the most. In the case of a game always loading different graphics none of them are likely to get cached and that means they would load off the harddrive part of it.

Hopefully that clears up why USAFRet recommended the WD Blue instead.

Seagate does make a desktop 7200rpm SSHD, its the st1000dx001 but its $100


In that case, would it be worth spending them extra pennies to get the 7200rpm SSHD.
Or just stick to a 7200rpm HDD?
Many thanks for your reply, really cleared things up.
Appreciate it


Personally, I'd go with a 120 SSD, and whatever size HDD you need. But that will be even a little more $$.

But during gaming, the SSDD or SSD won't help beyond faster level load times, and maybe not even then.
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a c 971 G Storage
January 11, 2014 7:05:53 PM

Exactly, the SSHD would only help during boot and loading of frequently used apps. If you startup up the pc and launched the same game all the time then it would speed that up but if your the type that likes todo different thing all the time then theres little to be gained besides saving 20 seconds on windows starting up. (8gb is really not alot of SSD)

If 20 seconds is worth the extra $40 then go ahead and get it.

Personally, for just a little more ($6?) I would get something like a sandisk readycache and have 32gb of ssd cache.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

note that if you are getting an intel-based motherboard see if it supports SSD caching (just about all of them do) and then you can get any small SSD to use as cache. AMD's don't have this option and must use an aftermarket solution.
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