in reply to OT: SSHDs Any experience?

No experience here but an SSHD, like a restaurant set menu, a package holiday or an integrated camera, is parts bundled to offer the consumer value for money. Easily satisfied consumers like bundles. Picky consumers dislike the compromises and prefer to combine their own choices. You are assembling you own computer so the separate component option seems to better match your style.

Usage patterns are individual, flash endurance numbers are hard to verify. Several of my SSDs outlived their host laptops. Their work was mainly compiling and unit testing, the heaviest load was sometimes running virtual machines. My Raspberry Pis use their original SD cards from several years ago without errors whilst other people have seen short card lifetimes, so my demands may be too light to be relevant.

Your worry might be what happens when the flash wears out. Hopefully the decent ones degrade gracefully, gradually giving less performance benefit and sending warnings to monitoring software. Personally I am cautious and would recommend the separate SSD and HDD option.

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Re^2: OT: SSHDs Any experience? (Thanks to all 3 contributors: Decision made)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2015 at 14:32 UTC
    Personally I am cautious and would recommend the separate SSD and HDD option.

    I concur. (On the quote, and your entire reply.)

    The only attractions of the SSHD are: the fit-and-forget, simple install; and the tried & tested, intelligence of the firmware that applies NVRAM caching to any & all workloads that might benefit from it. I was attracted by the idea of not having to continually think about what should reside on the SSD.

    However, I've since read this (particularly this & this), and several others, and have reached the conclusion that I would never be satisfied with the results of the hybrid solution, and will be going for the separates.

    Thanks.


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