Hybrid Drives As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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815 words · ~4 min read
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having your cake and eating it too can be pretty tough to pull off and that's
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especially true when it comes to computer components where Builders have
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to deal with the Eternal Balancing Act between price and performance in
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particular storage prevents us with two diametrically opposing choices do I want
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the speed of an SSD for a higher price or the capacity of a hard drive with the
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caveat that it comes with slower performance although most desktop cases
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can easily fit one of each which is indeed a popular compromise what if you
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have a laptop with only one drive slot
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or you just really care about having your OS and a few important applications
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launch quickly and you don't mind waiting a few extra seconds to load your
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steam library or all that unfinished fan art you've been working on in that case
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a solid state hybrid drive or an sshd
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might be the right choice for you they aren't called that because they just run
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off a mix of gasoline and electricity just think of the fumes that would build
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up inside your case but because they contain both spinning disc platters like
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you'd find in a traditional hard drive and the same Nan Flash and a controller
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that you would find in an SSD outwardly hybrid drives might seem very similar to
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regular hard drives they use the same 22 or 3 and 1/2 in form factor and plug
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into a single SATA port but inside a
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special controller manages both the Nan Flash and the Magnetic platters so the
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hybrid Drive appears as just one drive to your operating system rather than as
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a separate hard drive and SSD the firmware is also in charge of
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determining what data will be stored in the flash cells for quicker access and
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what will instead be placed onto the slower spinning platters over time the
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drive will actually learn what files are accessed most frequently and will
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automatically Place those files in flash memory for you no input from the user
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required of course the all-in-one convenience of a hybrid drive does come
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with some limitations the flash memory capacity is usually quite small
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typically no more than 32 GB so if you
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need quick access to lots of programs and data a full fat SSD paired with a
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conventional hard drive may be a better setup for you hybrid drives also won't
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give you the per performance Boost from the plash storage right off the bat
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since they have to take time to learn what data should be put in the Nan cells
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for quick access they start out being not much if at all faster than a regular
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mechanical drive and you unfortunately cannot manually tell a typical sshd to
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place specific things onto the flash portion still though you get the
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advantages of paying much less than you would for a standalone solid state drive
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and as well as ease of use for novice Builders or tinkerers who want a
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performance boost without having to deal with multiple drives or deciding what
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needs to go where on their own so if you need a lot of relatively cheap storage
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with a little extra pep for your next upgrade don't overlook hybrid drives
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