05-21-2016, 09:35 AM
Large capacity SSD has dropped a lot and is not insane now. Per capacity it can work out cheaper than multiple smaller ones. I picked up Sandisk 960GB and Crucial MX200 1TB for £150-160 each in UK (equiv. US$220). However I use those primarily for application/game installs, and still use HDs for data storage. These aren't high end SSDs in performance terms, but still kill any HD.
JoJu, not sure what type of hybrid drive you're talking about. Western Digital made a combined SSD + HD in one package, exposed to the system as one disk. The recommended configuration was to make two partitions, one covering the SSD for high performance, one covering the HD part for storage. I don't think this ever caught on as the only benefit is not needing two separate physical drives in a small form factor to implement the fast OS,+slow bulk arrangement. Seagate instead made SSHD, which is a HD with a smaller SSD cache. I think the one I have is 750GB capacity with 2GB SSD cache. I got one of these to play with on a laptop, and in terms of real world performance, it still feels like a hard disk. The SSD cache might help some read scenarios but I'm not sure it offers a write benefit.
Overall, I think we still need to understand where the bottleneck is and address that.
JoJu, not sure what type of hybrid drive you're talking about. Western Digital made a combined SSD + HD in one package, exposed to the system as one disk. The recommended configuration was to make two partitions, one covering the SSD for high performance, one covering the HD part for storage. I don't think this ever caught on as the only benefit is not needing two separate physical drives in a small form factor to implement the fast OS,+slow bulk arrangement. Seagate instead made SSHD, which is a HD with a smaller SSD cache. I think the one I have is 750GB capacity with 2GB SSD cache. I got one of these to play with on a laptop, and in terms of real world performance, it still feels like a hard disk. The SSD cache might help some read scenarios but I'm not sure it offers a write benefit.
Overall, I think we still need to understand where the bottleneck is and address that.
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