using a msata for win 10 would it be worth it and what would be a good size

[the_hobbit]

I am a little out of touch technology and I was given a cyber power pc laptop it has a 1tb Hyderabad segregate hd in right now it has a slot for msata would it be worth it to and msata for the os and the 1tb as storage, if so what side what would be a good size for a msata

 

[Colif]

Do you mean a Seagate hdd?

I would get 250gb or larger, they can go all way up to 1tb now - https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-850-evo-msata-500gb-mz-m5e500bw/ and the speed is almost the same as ssd

Sounds like a plan. I would take hdd out while you install or win 10 might use the boot partition on the hdd and that makes it difficult if you ever remove hdd as PC won't boot.

 

[the_hobbit]

I am currently running SEAGATE SOLID STATE HYBRID NOTEBOOK HD 1TB5400 RPM W/ 8GBSSD

 

[Colif]

That is a sshd, its a hard drive with a solid state drive built into it that acts as a cache so all the files the operating system uses on a regular basis load a faster

Momentus XT laptop drives fuse the lightning speed of SSD with the high capacity of a hard drive to unleash your system’s performance. Powered by Adaptive Memory™ technology, SSHD technology enables your system to boot, load and run applications faster.

https://www.seagate.com/au/en/solutions/solid-state-hybrid/products/

They sort of in the middle between old hard drives and ssd

Solid-state hybrid drive
Solid-state hybrid drive (also known by the initialism SSHD[a]) refers to products that incorporate a significant amount of NAND flash memory into a hard disk drive (HDD), resulting in a single, integrated device.[7] The term SSHD is a more precise term than the more general hybrid drive, which has previously been used to describe SSHD devices and non-integrated combinations of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives. The fundamental design principle behind SSHDs is to identify data elements that are most directly associated with performance (frequently accessed data, boot data, etc.) and store these data elements in the NAND flash memory. This has been shown[8] to be effective in delivering significantly improved performance over the standard HDD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive

You should see a speed boost using the ssd over one. You have no control over what goes on the cache of an sshd so at least in the ssd you have full control over what files are on it.

The value of a ssd is not just improving boot and game load times.
It makes everything you do quicker.
Files and thumbnails open instantly.
Gaming checkpoints load faster. Video textures load faaster.
Windows updates are done in half the time. Virus scans are less intrusive.
It goes on.. and on...
Samsung even claims it can reduce stuttering and improve fps in games:
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/why/forGamer.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3052006/ssd-sshd.html