Failure rate of SSHD

[Nathan3158]

Wondering what the failure rate of the
Seagate Hybrid Drive ST1000DX001 1TB MLC/8GB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s NCQ 3.5" Desktop SSHD
is

 

[tsnor]

No one publishjes this, so you need to work to find an approximation

Check reviews on Amazon and NewwEgg, compare the % favorable to other Seagate spinning drives and to Hitachi drives. Look at the blackblaze failure rates for various seagate drives and guess which platters are similar to the SSHD drive. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-2015/
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q2-2016/

I am using a seagate hybrid drive in one system, it works fine for me. I likely would not buy again vs. just getting a 250GB or 500GB SSD and (if needed) a large spinning data drive. Price of 500gb and smaller SSDs is $150 or less.

 

[dudeman509]

Laptop disks, but I've been through 3. Bad sectors/clicking on 2 of them after a few months.

 

[tsnor]

Bummer, failing disks is a pain. Hope your backups worked.

The SSHD was a 1TB. That size SSD is about $250-$300 vs half that for a 500gb drive.

Many laptops have a slot used for mini-PCI 3g/4g modems. I've used this slot on thinkpads and lenovo ideapads to install an SSD while still having the spinning 2.5" drive as a data drive. I'd check and see if your laptop supports this. If your latop is intel based likely you could also use a small SSD there plus intel RST drivers to do SSD caching for your primary drive (but I'd just put in an SSD big enough to be a boot drive = 200gb).