SSHD vs HDD vs SSD/HDD for gaming

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DuPaCa

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My 500 GB Seagate HDD just failed on me. Everything takes minutes to load, even my Chrome. Now i want to buy a new drive(s), but i dont know what I should buy. Should i buy a 1TB Seagate SSHD or a WD Caviar Black 1TB or a combo of a HDD and SSD? I use my PC for games like LoL, GTA and COD.

My system specs: AMD FX-8320
MSI 970A-P43
CM B700 PSU
R9 270X
CM K380
 
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dudeman509

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The SSHD isn't much faster than a regular HDD. It will load Windows and recently-used programs just a bit faster (nowhere near as quickly as a true SSD), but everything else leaves it thrashing around on the disk.

Go for a 120-256 GB SSD for Windows/common apps, and a 7200 RPM HDD for large games/documents/music/storage. You'll love it.
 
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I'd get a small 120gb SSD for windows and programs, and a HDD for your games.

I use to have some of my games like DayZ, ArmA 3, GTA5, ARK, and H1Z1 on my SSD, Only thing it did was improve loading times for me compared to my 3 year old 1tb WD Caviar Black.

DayZ on a SSD helped with some of the stutter I occasionally got, FPS remains the same.

ArmA 3 all that it did was help with loading, though it did seem to run my Epoch server much smoother.

GTA5, ARK, and H1Z1 nothing at all really changed, GTA5 still took forever to load, but even on a HDD it never seemed to max out the HDD but for a split second and then just sat there on a loading screen, though startup used a lot of HDD activity.
 
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