Duration between SSD vs SSHD

DEEPESH MANI

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i am plaining to buy a SSD or SSHD. i doubt is which one will be in long duration? estimate the duration of it exmaple in years.

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thanks friends
 
Solution
Drives, whether SSD, HDD, or hybrid SSHD, are rated in MTBF hours (Mean Time Between Failure). Seagate and Western Digital have gotten away from referencing the MTBF rating on their drives because they claim it's not accurate (I disagree). Seagate now uses AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) but I have yet to see them list a rating of any of their drives. I do not know what Western Digital uses. In any event, the typical MTBF of say a Samsung 500GB 850 EVO is 2,000,000 hours.

SSD is going to last longer. SSHD is a normal hdd with a small ssd to store most used files, you cant control it. SSD is a better choice if you get a good brand like Samsung.


 
We have been using SSHDs for 6 or 7 years and SSDs for a little longer. All SSHDs are still in use, we have not had a single failure with about 10 here (and 2-3 times that in user builds) and they ranging in age from 2.5 to 7 years, Three of the early SSDs we bought failed.

One after about 2 years, it's warranty replacement 3.5 years later. In a 2nd box, the SSD died after 4.5 years. Both of these had their lives extended for 6-12 months after reformatting in an external drive and doing the diskpart thing. Those failures were high end early generation models when 120 GB was as bout as much as could be set aside for an SSD. We have had no failures with later generation designs (250 -256 GB) later generation models. As long as you stay away from the lower end or older generation stuff, you should have no problems with getting 5 years out of either.

Presently, our base configuration includes a 250 GB SSHD and a 2 TB SSHD If asked to build a gaming box, and budget doesn't allow both, we recommend the SSHD now ... with an upgrade to add the SSD for OS and programs when budget allows. If building a gaming box, with OS and programs on the SSD and your game library on a HD, the games get squat from having the SD.

-Gaming Performance improvement that you gain from SSD when game library on HD = 0%

-Gaming Performance improvement that you gain from SSHD when Everything on SSHD = 53.5% speed improvement

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2013/-17-PCMark-7-Gaming,2915.html

Seagate SSHD - 9.73 MB/sec
WD Black = 6.34

973 / 6.34 = SSHD speed is 153.5% oh the High perfomance HD

Both typically come with a 5 year warranty, As or boot time performance ....

Windows boot time on same box
Samsung Pro 256 GB = 15.6 secs
Seagate 32 TB SSHD = 16.5 seconds

BTW, 1 post per topic please
 
Drives, whether SSD, HDD, or hybrid SSHD, are rated in MTBF hours (Mean Time Between Failure). Seagate and Western Digital have gotten away from referencing the MTBF rating on their drives because they claim it's not accurate (I disagree). Seagate now uses AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) but I have yet to see them list a rating of any of their drives. I do not know what Western Digital uses. In any event, the typical MTBF of say a Samsung 500GB 850 EVO is 2,000,000 hours.
 
Solution
Early generation SSDs had a short life span but new generation ones have gotten exponentially better in terms of lifespan. The new SSDs should be able to go 10 years with normal usage and last longer then the average hard drive.

There is very little reason today in 2017 to buy an SSHD over an SSD.
You cant control what gets cached in the SSHD and if there is very little consitancy in which files you often open then it wont make any difference in perfomance vs a normal hard drive.

For OS/Programs drive the SSD wins out by a long shot.