Hard Drive or Hybrid Hard Drive for games storage?

shanedude02 · Nov 9, 2015

Basically, My current rig, has a Boot SSD, a 120GB HDD i use for data, and a 500GB HDD I use for games and programs. But the 500GB is basically dying, only sometimes working properly, not letting windows boot sometimes, not being detected by the BIOS sometimes. (The hard drive was from an old Sky+ box many years ago).

Im looking for something to replace this now, and have thought about getting one big storage unit for data and my programs. I have a budget of around £75, and have seen these two:
http://www.ebuyer.com/260668-wd-green-3tb-3-5-sata-desktop-hard-drive-wd30ezrx

and

http://www.ebuyer.com/544878-seagate-sshd-2tb-3-5-sata-desktop-solid-state-hybrid-drive-st2000dx001

Question is, considering I have an SSD for the OS, would it be beneficial to give up 1TB of storage for the Hybrid-ness of a SSHD, or should i just stick to getting the 3TB HDD?

The SSHD is around £5 cheaper, but is also 1TB less storage space.

azaran · Nov 9, 2015

Pickup the HDD. Since you're using an SSD for your boot drive, a hybrid isn't going to do anything for performance for your data drive.

fe_blaze · Nov 9, 2015

shanedude02 :

the SSDH will load things faster. but i use my hard drives for single player games mostly where load times are not that important
if load times matter a lot too you i'd go with the hd if you don't mind waiting a little longer i'd go with the HDD

shanedude02 · Nov 9, 2015

I was thinking of getting the HDD simply for the pure amount of storage, I was not too sure what to expect from the SSHD, and whether it would make much of a difference if I already have a boot SSD. Thank you for the help!

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