Seagate SSHD

[steelodon]

So Newegg has the 1TB SSHD on sale this weekend. Price is very close to a 128GB SSD. Is it worth it? Or should I just put up extra money and get a 240GB SSD?

 

[mikeymikec]

Seagate has a bit of a patchy rep.

The Blackblaze reliability report is just one in a series of black eyes for Seagate IMO. I personally stopped using them for internal / essential storage when they dropped their main drive warranties down to 1 year, because most people would be pretty annoyed if their main storage device died after a year or two and a 1 year warranty is hardly an endorsement of its long life. I started using Seagate when they started doing 5 year warranties for their main drives.

Also, it depends on what you want from this device. I might consider a SSHD for a light usage yet budget + "more storage capacity required" scenario. The SSD part will only help as far as its capacity allows it to as well as how clever the drive is for caching the most appropriate data. I've used a couple of SSHD laptops a couple of years ago for a short while and TBH I didn't think they performed noticeably better than their HDD counterparts. I personally prefer to go for SSD wherever possible and say if I end up having to upgrade to a larger SSD in five years time then so be it. SSD prices have been steadily dropping and will continue to do so until long after they reach market saturation or have been replaced with something better.

 

[steelodon]

Thanks for that. I will actually help make my choice easier.

 

[VirtualLarry]

IMHO, the only place where SSHDs make sense, is when and where you don't have enough SATA ports or mounting space to put in an SSD + HDD.

 

[corkyg]

Used Seagate XT Hybrids for few years with never a problem. They were very solid 2.5-in performers. These new Seagate hybrids are 3.5-in form, and I don't belirvr there has been sufficient usage to provide a proper scope of reliability, etc. And, as pure SSDs become cheaper and bigger, as Larry says, there is less of a reason to buy them. Especially now that Fixstars has developed a 6TB SSD!

http://techxplore.com/news/2015-05-fixstars-six-terabyte-solid-state.html

 

[squirrel dog]

What drives innovation is competition . That's why I am sad to see amd fade . Intel only will come at a higher price , with less improvement imho .