Any idea which is faster, a hybrid drive or a dual drive?
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Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
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The 120GB C: drive in this dual drive should be faster than a hybrid drive since it is an actual SSD (an thus represents the theoretical max speed that a hybrid drive will reach under near-ideal circumstances). The 1TB D: drive will perform as you would expect a traditional non-hybrid hard drive would, no faster and no slower.
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Technically yes, this is faster. However, if you split you User folders up and put them on the 1TB partition like I did (I have a bad habit of dropping large quantities of stuff on the desktop), then overall your system will run about as fast as if you were using a hybrid drive. If you can keep everything situated on the 120GB SSD partition, then your system will run much faster than if you were to use a hybrid drive.
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A hybird drive doesn't work like an SSD and the SSD portion of a hybrid is much smaller then most SSD's, hybrids are also a single drive unlike this one. Since this is a dual drive the answer to your question is both yes and no, instead let's split your question. "Is a hybrid faster then a SSD?" No!, "Is a hybrid faster then a HDD?" Yes! So the main benefit of this drive is that you get the real speed of an SSD with the storage capacity of an HDD.
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This is a hybrid (dual) drive. The smaller portion (120 GB) is a SSD and the larger portion (1TB) is a normal HDD. If you use the SSD portion to load up all the programs, and to use the HDD as the file storage, your computer will run extremely fast. Good luck!
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You have two internal hard drives? Not many computers have that. It wouldn't be possible to say which is the quickest without knowing the transfer speeds of both drives. It may not be a significant difference anyways. The edge the external drive would have is that you can easily and quickly remove it and connect it to another computer if something catastrophic happened to your computer. Another thing- as far as I can tell there was no backup software included for the Passport so you'll need to rely on your computer's backup software. That's probably not a factor. In the end it's probably apples and oranges whether you go with an internal or external drive. Personally, I prefer the portability of an external drive. Good luck with your purchase.
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If you are going to get a 2.5 drive, go with the 6.0mbps transfer rate!! or you will not get the full functionallity that comes with having the solid state portion of the drive. It requires you to be able to set the drive up as ACHI in the BIOS, or else it will just function like any other 3.0mbps hard drive. I have 3 Seagate 500 Hybrids in a raid with each drive partitioned in half. giving me a theoretical 6 drives at 250 gb per drive. I like having my games on their own partitions, for faster read times, and my startups are under 2 mins.
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Hybrid drive designs employ software caching algorithms (rather than relying on the user's brain) to decide which data belongs on the SSD portion and what goes on the drive's platters.These caching algorithms reside in the hybrid drive's firmware, not the device driver. To the computer's operating system, a hybrid drive appears as a single unit with the SSD portion acting strictly as a large cache. The cache is nonvolatile, so the data doesn't disappear when power is absent.
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... the drive is actually faster than advertised - maybe your system config needs a little tweaking ...
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Much faster data transfer times withteh PCle Drive Card instead of the drive bay. Google the question and you'll get details.
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Yes. A USB 3.0 flash drive will be faster than USB 2.0. Keep in mind however, that budget 3.0 flash drives are slower than more expensive 3.0 drives that have faster memory.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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I bought two SanDisk solid state drives. I installed one in a Dell all in one computer and the other in an Asus Eee PC. Both systems boot about 4 times faster and generally run faster.
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I have a 512 GB in my PS4. There is little improvement. Hybrid drives seem to work the best in the PS4.
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SATA 2 is capable of reaching 300MB per second throughput while SATA is only capable of 150MB per second, twice as fast. Although SATA 2 is much faster compared to SATA, we must understand that this is only the maximum speed of the interface and not the hard drives themselves. Conventional hard drives are not able to utilize the maximum speed of even the original SATA interface.
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Right, RPM would be about revolutions of a drive, however now with hybrid drives you will still see RPM but they have mixed storage creating an advanced cache so the performance is a lot better.
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External drives are better in quality and durability. I have both and prefer the external.
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Yes this drive is much faster. The hitachi is limited by the SATA II 3.0 Gb/s bandwidth plus the Seagate is a Hybrid drive adding 8gb of NAND flash SSD memory just for cache vastly improving boot times and app load times.
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.
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SATA is backwards compatible so it should be fine. In fact, if you are replacing a plater drive it should be faster even with the 1.5 Gb/sec bottleneck.
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The 1.5TB model is much higher density, which could result in faster performance in some cases. I have been using the HGST 1.5 tb drive in a macbook ODD bay for a few months now and I am very happy with it. The only thing to consider for a PS4 is how important the hard drive speed is. If you care a lot about hard drive speed, then a Hybrid Drive like the Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive would be a better choice.