An SSD and a HDD or a Hybrid? Help please!
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Pure SSD is better but what are you trying to do ? Since your considering a standard HD and SSD sounds like your upgrading a desktop you could also get a cheap 120GB drive just for the OS and a larger drive for data storage. I see lots of sales for 120 for under $50.
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Some of the Thinkpads use a 16GB cache SSD, effectively turning the HDD into a hybrid drive. When I briefly had access to one, of course I reconfigured it as a plain SSD and ran some benchmarks on it.
CrystalDiskMark 1000 MB
Seq: 257.1 MB/s read, 52.33 MB/s write
512k: 196.6 MB/s read, 24.66 MB/s write
4k: 17.43 MB/s read, 3.867 MB/s write
4kQ32: 0.968 MB/s read, 2.668 MB/s write
So the speeds are pretty impressive for such a small SSD (4k speeds are substantially better than a HDD, which is about 1 MB/s for laptop HDDs). But even a budget full-sized SSD will put it to shame. If at all possible, go for the SSD + HDD combo.
CrystalDiskMark 1000 MB
Seq: 257.1 MB/s read, 52.33 MB/s write
512k: 196.6 MB/s read, 24.66 MB/s write
4k: 17.43 MB/s read, 3.867 MB/s write
4kQ32: 0.968 MB/s read, 2.668 MB/s write
So the speeds are pretty impressive for such a small SSD (4k speeds are substantially better than a HDD, which is about 1 MB/s for laptop HDDs). But even a budget full-sized SSD will put it to shame. If at all possible, go for the SSD + HDD combo.
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