Help!! Can SSHD handles nonstop torrents, games, etc?

vampelle

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I have read some post here n other sites.
i do understand the basic for this that it have a small flash which will be faster in booting, n some work load.

But since i planning to buy 1TB HDD or SSHD. i need to know few things more.

I am sure it will handle browsering, streaming, net, chatting fine, maybe little bit better, but what is the results for these;
i use torrents, dl/ul alot you can say nonstop around 12-14 hours a day. watching videos, storaging them, deleting them if i finish some series.
and soon playing online gaming, prefer at max resolution, depends on the board n gpu i get.

I am planning to buy seagate HDD or SSHD
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybrid/desktop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/#specs
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/desktop-hdd/

i have no interest to spend more than my budget. the only differences between them is around $20.

But in the end can it handle mutlitasking (videos, browsering, chatting, FB, skype, excel, torrents nonstop).
As i also understand that seagate SSHD is 7200rpm, with 6gb/s but no details on cache.
 
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SSHD does have 64mb of normal cache. 8 gigs of NAND will wear out over time (Toshiba claims it will work for the expected lifetime of a pc) and once it stops working you will have normal HDD with 64 mb of cache.

as far as torrents and movies are concerned, I dont think SSD part will have any impact at all unless you plan to watch the same movie 4-5 times and even then you wont notice any difference :). After a few starts games see some improvement in loading time but again 8 gigs is not enough for real SSD speeds.

All in all, I think SSHD will give you noticable faster response in windows while regular hdd will still feel just as slow as the last one.

Felcorn

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SSHD does have 64mb of normal cache. 8 gigs of NAND will wear out over time (Toshiba claims it will work for the expected lifetime of a pc) and once it stops working you will have normal HDD with 64 mb of cache.

as far as torrents and movies are concerned, I dont think SSD part will have any impact at all unless you plan to watch the same movie 4-5 times and even then you wont notice any difference :). After a few starts games see some improvement in loading time but again 8 gigs is not enough for real SSD speeds.

All in all, I think SSHD will give you noticable faster response in windows while regular hdd will still feel just as slow as the last one.
 
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