Is Seagate Laptop Thin hybrid better than 7200rpm standard HD?

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I have a Pavilion laptop with a SEAGATE SATA 250 GB 7200rpm hard disk. It is showing errors and needs to be replaced.
I don't want to spend too much as the laptop is old and has been around a lot of dust in its time.
My question is, would the Seagate Laptop thin 500GB SSHD perform better than what I have now? Obvisouly I have more GB but I am concerned that it is only 5400rpm rather than my current 7200. Would the SSHD benefits overide this loss or am I better sticking with a 7200rpm standard hard drive?
I just use the laptop for home use - internet, TV and MS Office, no gaming. At the moment boot up times and opening applications are very slow.
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I dropped one into my laptop about 2 months ago.

I also have an SSD in my desktop to compare to. Yes, the SSD is much faster.

But the Hybrid is faster than a standard disk once its learning algorithm has enough data to work with. All my commonly used programs are instant load, but others arent. If you can afford a sizable SSD get that. If you cant but get afford a SSHD, get that. If you cant afford that, get a standard HDD :)

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025402/ssds-vs-hard-drives-vs-hybrids-which-storage-tech-is-right-for-you-.html

The hybrid drive will be better in some cases, or as good in others but you are better off with a smaller full SSD if you want fast response time and booting.

If you don't keep a lot of stuff on your drive, or can offload the files to a backed up network storage drive, I'd get a smaller SSD vs a larger regular drive. It really does make the laptop act much faster in many cases (it won't help with speed of streaming off the network like Netflix but will help with opening programs and working with local files).
 
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I dropped one into my laptop about 2 months ago.

I also have an SSD in my desktop to compare to. Yes, the SSD is much faster.

But the Hybrid is faster than a standard disk once its learning algorithm has enough data to work with. All my commonly used programs are instant load, but others arent. If you can afford a sizable SSD get that. If you cant but get afford a SSHD, get that. If you cant afford that, get a standard HDD :)

 
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