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Hello,

I'm building my first High-End pc. Seagate has a good solution for people who want SSD like speed and HDD like capacity in one physical hard drive.

I want to ask you:
Is it good to buy an SSHD hybrid drive or I must better buy One SSD for Windows and One HDD for other files?

My SSHD choice:
SEAGATE 1TB Hybrid SSHD

My SSD and HDD choice:
Samsung Evo 840 SSD 120GB and WD Blue 1TB @7200RPM SATA 6GB/s
 
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To go a little more in depth:

In terms of overall performance, decreasing:
SSD (large or a couple of them, to hold ALL your stuff)
SSD + HDD
SSHD
HDD


A 120GB SSD can hold your OS and most/all applications, apart from games. Currently, a ~250GB SSD seems to be the optimum price/size point.
Pair that with a large HDD or two, and you're all set.

SSHD - Has a small SSD portion (generally 8GB) to cache most used files. Those are delivered at SSD speed. Anything else comes directly off the HDD.
But being only 8GB, it can only hold so much. Obviously, significantly less than the 120or 250GB regular SSD, which holds the whole application.
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SSD + HDD is better as mentioned before. I'd like to suggest you get a 250GB instead since it would give you more room after your OS install. Part of the setup for the Samsung drives is to configure room for over provisioning by I think 20% or so. I have one but I'm unable to provide the exact size since I'm at work right now. This would also allow you room for your OS to grow due to windows updates or installing a game or two.
 
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To go a little more in depth:

In terms of overall performance, decreasing:
SSD (large or a couple of them, to hold ALL your stuff)
SSD + HDD
SSHD
HDD


A 120GB SSD can hold your OS and most/all applications, apart from games. Currently, a ~250GB SSD seems to be the optimum price/size point.
Pair that with a large HDD or two, and you're all set.

SSHD - Has a small SSD portion (generally 8GB) to cache most used files. Those are delivered at SSD speed. Anything else comes directly off the HDD.
But being only 8GB, it can only hold so much. Obviously, significantly less than the 120or 250GB regular SSD, which holds the whole application.
 
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hybrid drives are just a mess, twice the point of failure and so on, samsung got too many problems dont buy that brand.
a single ssd is best, buy at least 500gb, many storage devices make just more places to organise and choose speed of what you want, just skip this awkward period and just go pure ssd, or just slow hdd.
 
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Dude the single SSD for the OS is always the best but I would say get a 120 of 250 gb SSD(your choice) for OS and get the 1Tb SSHD for your data, very nice to save your steam games on that one instead of the SSD and still get very good speeds!
 
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The only real problem with that is budget. 500GB and larger SSD's are still pretty expensive.

And personally, I like having things on individual drives. If I ever have to reinstall the OS, the music/video/pics that live on other drives is not touched.
 
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Thanks for support, all of you. I would buy 250GB or even 500GB SSD, but I they are VERY VERY expensive, so I don't have that much money. That's the problem. Also I know that Windows size is about 10 - 20 Gigs and I don't think that after update system will require more than 120 Gigs.
 
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My C drive is a 120GB Kingston. Has the OS and ALL applications, apart from games.
Currently, ~80GB used space. And that's only because I've been a bit sloppy as to where things are. That should go down to ~65GB in the next few days, after a little housecleaning.
 
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And the fix for that is included on the CD that comes with the drive.
I just ran a test on my patched 840 EVO (3 months old), and it is reporting the Read speeds it should.
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