Are hybrid drives loud?

[Sam QS]

I currently use a Samsung 850 Evo in my PS4 because well I dislike loud drives and the slow speed of the HDD. Feels like I'm wasting the 850 Evo though(500gb) on the PS4 so I'm thinking of switching it out to a 1tb hybrid drive.

So again, are these drives loud like a regular HDD? Or how does it sound in comparison to SSD and HDDs?

 

[dudeman509]

The Seagate SSHDs are nearly silent in operation. You don't hear the heads moving around at all unless you put your ear up to it.

 

[iamacow]

honestly the PS4 fan is louder than any hard drive. kinda pointless to put an SSD in.

Also SSHDs do get loud and sound about the same as any laptop drive (currently has the Seagate 1TB SSHD). the Nand is only 8GB for common accessed data. It will not do much for the ps4 besides wasting money. Good for latops and loading windows that cannot afford a SSD, pointless otherwise.

 

[Sam QS]

honestly the PS4 fan is louder than any hard drive. kinda pointless to put an SSD in.

Also SSHDs do get loud and sound about the same as any laptop drive (currently has the Seagate 1TB SSHD). the Nand is only 8GB for common accessed data. It will not do much for the ps4 besides wasting money. Good for latops and loading windows that cannot afford a SSD, pointless otherwise.

I actually meant to reply to this message and not choose it as best answer lol.

With that said, SSD and SSHD are VERY close in everything and in some cases SSHD is faster for whatever reasons unknown. However SSHD compared to an HDD is a HUGE difference, we're talking about 10~15 seconds difference in some games. SSD to SSHD though is generally around 1~10 seconds difference at most(for like one game on one specific map if I remember correctly the 10 seconds happened) but usually lands within 1~3 seconds difference on the rest of the games tested.

So as far as I know, SSHD is a HUGE jump at half the price of an SSD. While SSD is the clear winner, the price currently does not justify the speed it costs over SSHD at twice the price. However the only thing I worry about is the sound level of it. I leave my PS4 running idle sometimes when I just decide to randomly surf the internet and the PS4 will be like 2 feet away from me.

 

[dudeman509]

It won't be that loud. They aren't 90's hard disks anymore. Really the only loud ones on the market are WD Black desktop drives and enterprise-level server drives. Almost everything else is built to be near silent in operation.

The SSHD will only benefit you where you frequently load a certain map, game, etc. The drive's firmware will store that data in the flash RAM. If you then go and play another game for a while, that one will probably be kicked out of the flash and you'll be back to normal hard disk loading speeds.

I have a 1 TB Seagate SSHD laptop drive and I can't hear it from 2 ft away from the computer at all. I have to be within 6" to hear it seeking. My Seagate desktop drive is also very quiet - you only hear that one spin up.

 

[Sam QS]

It won't be that loud. They aren't 90's hard disks anymore. Really the only loud ones on the market are WD Black desktop drives and enterprise-level server drives. Almost everything else is built to be near silent in operation.

The SSHD will only benefit you where you frequently load a certain map, game, etc. The drive's firmware will store that data in the flash RAM. If you then go and play another game for a while, that one will probably be kicked out of the flash and you'll be back to normal hard disk loading speeds.

I have a 1 TB Seagate SSHD laptop drive and I can't hear it from 2 ft away from the computer at all. I have to be within 6" to hear it seeking. My Seagate desktop drive is also very quiet - you only hear that one spin up.

Thanks that's good to know. While I do understand SSHD is nowhere as fast as an SSD, a PS4 can't even utilize the full speed of the slowest SSD in the market atm(and probably ever) so I figured it might be a more reasonable option to go with the SSHD in this case. SSHD is faster than HDD that's a given based on all these video tests I've been watching, though now I wonder if those games were tested before the video or done for the first time when recording the videos(since the SSHD tries to remember which data is most frequently accessed?). I kinda assume it's the first time recording since the ones I checked out were mostly known reviewers.