Partitioning a SSHD?

[Artur96]

I've recently bought a 1TB SSHD from Seagate. However, I would want to have a go at dual booting between OSX and Windows 10. I've heard that you should not partition a SSHD as this might mess up the SSD caching.
Is that true? Or will the SSHD cache data used on both partitions?

 

[fudgecakes99]

Well it depends how big is the ssd part of the hybrid hdd? If it's only a few gigs it's not worth partitioning in my opinion. Leave the o.s. on it and thats about it really.

Why dual boot? Unless you do heavy video editing no real point in having osx. It's a lot less useful then windows 10 in a lot of applications. Also i wouldn't dual boot on the same drive. It would probably add a lot of unnecessary problems? Best solutions just to buy a seperate ssd. Maybe look into an m.2 drive, with a pcie converter. Their not to expensive and they are insanely fast. Much faster then a hybrid drive or a single ssd for that matter.

 

[Artur96]

It's 8GB SSD cache.

 

[fudgecakes99]

8gb isn't enough for osx. I don't think its enough for windows 10 either. As soon as that 4.7ghz file uncompresses it'll take a lot more room. Also i don't think you'll have that "full 8gb" either, maybe 7.25 or something stupid. Most hdd's have a specific portion of the disk space partitioned away to specific hdd software.

 

[beegmouse]

The cache is used outside of the disk storage. It doesn't provide additional storage.

It is simply used to buffer frequently accessed data/sectors. If it sits idel in the cache it writes it to the disk.

It should be fine to partition it. As you do not partition the SSD part, only the HDD