SSD + HDD or Hybrid?

[futbar]

I am trying to build my perfect system and would like a bit of advice please.

I am unsure weather to go with a samsung 850 evo 120GB SSD and a seagate 2TB HDD or to go for a Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive.

I am after a fast booting system but I am not sure if the 8GB ssd section of the hybrid is big enough to make a massive difference. I will be doing some gaming and intend to overclock.

The system inc: i5 4690k, Asus z97-a mobo, Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card and 8GB Corsair Vengeance memory.

Many Thanks

Andy

 

[gskill support]

Depends on your need, do you need a good amount of storage? Do you have a HDD for large storage? Hybrid is basically combining the purpose of the two into one.

120GB is a nice size, but if you have 80GB in music and videos, and you have no other storage, a hybrid may be a good idea for that 2TB size.

 

[futbar]

Depends on your need, do you need a good amount of storage? Do you have a HDD for large storage? Hybrid is basically combining the purpose of the two into one.

120GB is a nice size, but if you have 80GB in music and videos, and you have no other storage, a hybrid may be a good idea for that 2TB size.

I would have either a 120gb ssd and a segate 2TB hdd OR the 2TB hybrid with it's 8GB ssd cache

 

[gskill support]

Just get the 120GB SSD if you have 2TB storage available.

 

[futbar]

Just get the 120GB SSD if you have 2TB storage available.

I am trying to keep my costs down and the hybrid is much cheaper, would the extra ssd make a big difference or will the hybrid be just as fast?

 

[gskill support]

Just depends if you want 120GB of SSD space or 8GB.

8GB is basically for OS, games, and basic files.

 

[jsmithepa]

I am trying to keep my costs down and the hybrid is much cheaper, would the extra ssd make a big difference or will the hybrid be just as fast?

You hit it RIGHT ON THE HEAD.

Hybrids are for folks with budgetary constrains, like we all I suppose. Best system performance and I believe the consensus here is SSD

 

[gerr]

Or you can get a 64GB SSD and 7200RPM HDD and setup SSD caching, which gives the whole HDD the speed of an SSD, within a couple %.