Upgrading to a Hybrid SSD from traditional HDD

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crazykidguy

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I'm thinking of upgrading to a Hybrid HDD from my 2, very old, traditional HDD's that are 500 and 250 GB. Since there's a sale going on right now on Newegg, I'm not sure whether the 1TB Hybrid HDD is better (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178381) or the 3TB model (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178392) .

They're both from Seagate and as a newbie, I don't know how to judge Hybrid drives and they're aren't much info on these 2 models on the net. I'm gonna use them as my main drives so evidently they're required to be able to hold a lot. I store lots of games, movies, songs, and school work on my computer.
 
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A hybrid will load commonly used programs twice as fast as a normal HDD.

A SSD will load all programs on it 5 times as fast as a normal HDD.

If you want to store lots of stuff get more than 1 TB. Movies are the killer.

Most people now use a 120GB SSD for Windows and put everything else on a 2TB HDD.
 
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I have the 1tb model you linked, and although the drive is fast, it's only fast when writing to the 8gb of flash storage on board, beyond that it's the same speed as any old 7200RPM drive.

If you can afford it the most optimal combination is still an SSD for boot/regular use programs and an HDD as a secondary drive for all the rest.
 
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Do not get the 3TB drive. Those are designed for Network Attached Storage units (NAS). These are designed for a different workload (24/7 operation) and not really for the daily power cycling that normal drives experience.

If you can swing the money, get a real SSD and keep your old 500/250GB HDs as secondary storage drives. You will be much happier with the results. A nice 256GB SSD is about 100 bucks nowadays.
 
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Could you explain a bit more? Cause from what you said it sounds like a 8GB flash drive got meshed with a regular 1TB HDD.
 
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