Solid, hybrid, or regular HardDrive

[GetOwnedGaming]

Hello I'm building a gaming(for Minecraft, and trials Evo 2)/school/home use computer.
Should I get a hybrid solid or regular HD?
Here is what I'm looking at so far:

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Spinpoint-SATA2-Drive-7200rpm/dp/B002NXPARA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1389753295&sr=8-3&keywords=samsung+1tb+f3


http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-Solid-Hybrid-ST1000DX001/dp/B00EIQTOFY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1390415644&sr=8-2&keywords=hybrid+hard+drive+for+desktop

Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions please let me know.
Also if you need to know what Motherboard or CPU etc let me know and I will post a link.

Thanks!

GetOwnedGaming

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Seagate dropped all its 7200RPM drive production because they consumer more power to make the platters spin faster (which means less battery life for laptops which outsell desktops 3 to 1) and because it is costlier to make the drives as compared to the ABUNDANT cheap 5400RPM drives (which are sloooooowwwer).

To solve the issue (people weren't buying slower drives) they remanufactured the 5400RPM drives to include a SSD Cache on the, thus making the slower, lower power, cheaper product perform 'about the same' as the 7200RPM drive other makers (Samsung, Toshiba, etc.) still make.

That really is the only difference between a Hybrid (SSHD) and a normal drive HDD. Now a normal SSD (solid state drive) has no moving parts at all, they are all memory chips. The speed is blazing fast on read and write, you can achieve the 7 Second Windows from Powered off to Icons and opening a application start up (to give you the idea of how fast). Problem is SSDs per Mb cost is usually 10x that of a HDD/SSHD, so you often get a small SSD (100GB-200GB) that costs MORE then a HDD (1TB). As you normally get a 'smaller size drive', that also means your limited in space, so the normal 'techie - geek' solutions is to run your Windows and large applications on the SSD (C Drive) then manually map everything to save / use the HDD you ALSO bought (1TB as your D Drive).

Many systems come setup like this now, and preconfigured to handle all this 'work' of constantly remapping programs, games, file saves etc. to the D Drive. There is some tweaks out there (Google adding SSD tips and tweaks for them) to help walk you through, but when you 'add' a SSD to a current system YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

For what you listed there, none of this will resolve any improved performance, especially as you didn't provide your current system specs (Download and post the first tab infromation from SPECCY). If you have a low end off the shelf computer (i.e. you bought a cheapy HP) there may be nothing you can do to 'improve' the system, or there may be small but simple changes to improve it (like add a GPU instead of using the Onboard / Integrated Graphics).

 

[GetOwnedGaming]

Seagate dropped all its 7200RPM drive production because they consumer more power to make the platters spin faster (which means less battery life for laptops which outsell desktops 3 to 1) and because it is costlier to make the drives as compared to the ABUNDANT cheap 5400RPM drives (which are sloooooowwwer).

To solve the issue (people weren't buying slower drives) they remanufactured the 5400RPM drives to include a SSD Cache on the, thus making the slower, lower power, cheaper product perform 'about the same' as the 7200RPM drive other makers (Samsung, Toshiba, etc.) still make.

That really is the only difference between a Hybrid (SSHD) and a normal drive HDD. Now a normal SSD (solid state drive) has no moving parts at all, they are all memory chips. The speed is blazing fast on read and write, you can achieve the 7 Second Windows from Powered off to Icons and opening a application start up (to give you the idea of how fast). Problem is SSDs per Mb cost is usually 10x that of a HDD/SSHD, so you often get a small SSD (100GB-200GB) that costs MORE then a HDD (1TB). As you normally get a 'smaller size drive', that also means your limited in space, so the normal 'techie - geek' solutions is to run your Windows and large applications on the SSD (C Drive) then manually map everything to save / use the HDD you ALSO bought (1TB as your D Drive).

Many systems come setup like this now, and preconfigured to handle all this 'work' of constantly remapping programs, games, file saves etc. to the D Drive. There is some tweaks out there (Google adding SSD tips and tweaks for them) to help walk you through, but when you 'add' a SSD to a current system YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

For what you listed there, none of this will resolve any improved performance, especially as you didn't provide your current system specs (Download and post the first tab infromation from SPECCY). If you have a low end off the shelf computer (i.e. you bought a cheapy HP) there may be nothing you can do to 'improve' the system, or there may be small but simple changes to improve it (like add a GPU instead of using the Onboard / Integrated Graphics).

Here are the links for what I'm getting for parts:

Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Enthusiast-CP-9020039-NA650W-Certified-Performance/dp/B005E98I0G

Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Z87-PLUS-DDR3-1600-Motherboard/dp/B00CRJSX5Q/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

CPU
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i5-4430-Quad-Core-Desktop-Processor/dp/B00CO8T9VC/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1389929385&sr=1-4&keywords=intel+i5+dual+core

Graphics Card
http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-GeForce-miniHDMI-Graphics-ZT-61101-10M/dp/B009O1Y8RW/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1390376008&sr=1-5&keywords=gtx+650+ti

RAM
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-Modules-KHX1600C9D3K2-8GX/dp/B0037TO5C0/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390283190&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Kingston+KHX16C9P1K2%2F16+RAM

HD
http://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=pd_bxgy_e_text_y

Case
http://www.amazon.com/CM-Storm-Enforcer-Computer-Windowed/dp/B004WK3KKQ

Wifi Card (The computer will be hard wired to internet but I want to keep the wifi option open)
http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WDN4800-Wireless-Express-Low-profile/dp/B007GMPZ0A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1390188424&sr=8-2&keywords=wifi+pci+express

Optical Disk Drive
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Serial-ATA-Internal-Optical-DRW-24B1ST/dp/B0033Z2BAQ/ref=pd_bxgy_pc_text_y

Here are all of the parts. Please help me pick a good HD for gaming and everything.
I do not know if you play Minecraft, but if you do you know how annoying it is to not have chunks load, so I want it to load chunks quickly.
Thanks,

Luke