SSD Hybrid vs. HDD

[neutrino]

I put a 1TB Crucial SSD drive in my Macbook Pro 2 summers ago and almost fell over at the speed difference. I also upgraded from 4Gb RAM to 16Gb

[dnar]

SSD"s are great and usually the more capacity you get the faster the performance.
I usually recommend the samsung EVO SSD's

Whatever you do.. do not get kingston SSD's even as cheap as you can find them on ebay.... they are unreliable and very slow... they are slower then most HDD's even.. however minus the kingstone ones SSD's are a clear winner.. the hybrid hard drives are ment for laptops mostly with only 1 drive bay.. 1 small SSD section for the OS and the HDD for mass storage... I would recommend to go with an full SSD if your laptop has 2 HDD drive bays *my laptop has this*.

Hot all Hybrid drives are 2 individully accessable medias. The drives we use present as a single media. Data is written/read through the flash, so it opperates as another level of cache. As you say, they solve a problem with single bay laptops.

Most new laptops include an M.2 or mSata port. I populate these with SSD first.

I agree about 2 disks in a laptop, my preffered optiin too.

[Bradfo69]

One thing i have learned over the all the years I have worked with computers. Prices are more or less the same, but the performance and capacities are getting better. The performance and capacity are more or less eaten by poor programming.
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If I may give Dave a bit of advice: Go for ruggedness instead of capacity for 2. bay storage. As you say, you already have a 500GB SSD, and it will take som time to fill that. Slip in another SSD as a secondary drive and you get better performance. Both disk speed and your battery will last longer.
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When times come and you need more diskspace, the SSD`s will be so cheap and/or large that you will have no trouble other than that you probably end up with a brand new PC.

That's what I ended up doing.... another 500gig SSD for the second drive. Half tempted to RAID them but, the performance is already so good, it's probably not worth losing half the overall storage.

[dnar]

That's what I ended up doing.... another 500gig SSD for the second drive. Half tempted to RAID them but, the performance is already so good, it's probably not worth losing half the overall storage.

No point mirroring SSD for redundancy. For speed maybe, but that would not sacrifice capacity in RAID0.