Speed ​​up your computer with SSHD. Hybrid hard drives (SSHD) and data recovery Install windows 10 to a hybrid drive

Many have already heard of the new hybrid hard drives, however, most will wonder whether it is worth buying? Or maybe instead of hybrids it is better to take SSD disk small volume (or large there is a lot of money), install the system on it, and for the data, install the usual HDD? Now I will try to shed some light on this question.

After my laptop fell off the table, the hard drive had to be replaced. There is no room for a separate SSD in a laptop, so only one device can be inserted there. I settled on a 1TB Seagate ST1000LM014-1EJ164 hybrid hard drive, and the SSD cache is about 8GB. This is certainly not as much as we would like, but so much is better than nothing at all. Such a hybrid disk cost me almost 7,000 rubles.

The hybrid disk cache is completely hardware-based and there are no programs to tune and optimize it. Programs and files that are frequently used, including system files, are cached.

Pros of a hybrid hard drive

Here are the pluses that I was able to identify when using a hybrid from Seagate:

• when using \ "quick start \" Windows system loads 25-30 percent faster,
• applications that we often use start several times faster,
• copying files up to 500 MB, even within different logical disks, occurs at a high speed, equal to about 200-300 MB / s (I think the file is first copied to the cache, and then transferred to the hard disk during idle time),
• the whole machine runs faster and there are fewer bottlenecks.

Cons of a hybrid drive

Let's note some disadvantages, but they are not critical:

• the cost is almost 2 times more than a conventional hard drive,
• low volume of SSD cache (in general, there are all sorts of disks, they have 32 and 64 GB each, but the cost is appropriate).

Conclusion, is it worth buying?

Let's move on to the most important thing and here I have two answers, and they depend on your operating conditions for the computer.

I think it's worth buying them only for laptops when there is no way to put a second separate drive in it. If you have a desktop computer, and there is space in it (usually there is always it), then it would be best to take a separate SSD drive, with a volume of 64 GB to 128 GB (this is if you plan to keep only the system on it). And if finances allow, then you can fork out for SDD \ 'schnick of 1-2 TB, I think it will be great.

Hello admin! I want to buy a hard drive with a volume of 1-2 TB, one friend of the computer advised me to buy an SSHD disk (hybrid hard disk and SSD) because it is noticeably faster than a regular HDD, but not as expensive as an SSD. What can you say about such discs?

Hello friends! That's a very good question. Yes, Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) is 30% faster than a conventional hard drive, and about the same is more expensive. If a regular 1 TB hard drive costs 4,000 rubles, then an SSHD can be bought for 5,400 rubles. Such discs are produced both for ordinary computers and for laptops.

At first, what is a hybrid hard drive

Production technology hard drives(the only component of a computer that has moving mechanical parts) has long gone into a dead end and it is almost impossible to increase the performance of a hard disk by production, which proves the emergence of SSD solid-state drives and hybrid SSHD hard drives on the market. But if a solid-state drive is a completely non-mechanical storage device based on memory microcircuits, then a hybrid hard drive is, first of all, an ordinary hard drive with a fast MLC flash memory card (8 GB) soldered on it, which is used in the production of solid-state drives. that is, it turns out that SSHD is a hybrid of a conventional hard drive and an SSD.

Second, why an SSHD hybrid hard drive is faster than a conventional hard drive

Seagate SSHDs use self-learning technology - Seagate Adaptive Memory, which examines the operating system installed on the disk from the first seconds of operation, as a result, the most often used programs and files are copied to the flash memory of the SSHD disk, such files include, first of all, the elements involved in loading operating system, which means Windows will boot faster from the second, third time, because Windows will be loaded from flash memory. For example, on my computer Windows boot 8.1 installed on a regular HDD takes 35-40 seconds, and on SSHD - 20 seconds, on a regular solid state drive SSD - 15 seconds. The same applies to the applications you constantly use, they will start up a little faster. Take, for example, a resource-intensive computer modern game, in which you constantly play, according to my observations, such a game will load three times faster than on a regular HDD.

Hybrid hard drive SSHD, it's the golden mean

In general, the ideal configuration for drives in system unit an ordinary home user looks like this: two drives are bought, the first is a solid-state SSD (volume 120-240 GB) for installing an operating system, and the second is a regular HDD for storing files (volume) 2-3 TB, you need about 10,000 rubles for all this ... And if you buy one 1TB SSHD hybrid drive, it will cost you 5,400 rubles, and a 2TB SSHD - 7,000 rubles. Of course, everything will not fly (as is the case with SSD), but you may not need such speeds. A hybrid SSHD disk comes out, this is the golden mean - for a little money you get good performance and large volume disk space.

Which SSHD to buy

Until recently, SSHD hybrid drives were manufactured by the company that developed them - Seagate. In total, there are currently three models of Seagate Desktop SSHD on the market with a volume of 1, 2, 4 TB.

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST1000DX001 1 TB

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2 TB

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST4000DX001 4 TB

Also recently, SSHD began to release Western digital, but they are few on the market, and the model that I came across - WD Blue SSHD, WD40E31X with a volume of 4 TB - did not differ in any way in speed characteristics from a similar model Seagate ST4000DX001 4 TB.

In today's article I suggest you consider the Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2 TB model and here's why. If we take the Seagate Desktop SSHD 1 TB model, then the 1 TB disk space is already not enough for the modern computer user. If we take the Seagate Desktop SSHD 4 TB model, then on the contrary, not everyone needs a large amount of 4 TB of disk space, and its price is quite high (11,500 rubles), and what is also important - the spindle rotation speed of this drive: 5900 rpm, that is, it is slightly slower than other 1 and 2 TB SSHDs (spindle speed 7200 rpm) and this will certainly affect the operating system's performance.

So, I persuaded you and we have a model Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2 TB

On closer inspection, the Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2TB hybrid drive turned out to be ordinary hard disk, only it says SSHD on it.

Disk space - 2 TB

SSD buffer capacity - 8 GB

The amount of cache memory - 64 MB

Spindle speed - 7200 rpm

On back side drive we see a special printed circuit board Adaptive Memory, with soldered 8 GB of fast MLC-memory and a controller "hybrid".

It is very easy to install the drive into the system unit.

SMART hard drive in CrystalDiskInfo and Victoria.

The hybrid drive is new and lasted 0 hours.

Read and write tests

To make sure that our disk is really good, we will perform several tests on reading and writing with special programs: CrystalDiskMark 2.0, ATTO Disk Benchmark and SiSoftware Sandra. These utilities will sequentially read and write information to our hybrid disk in small blocks, then show us the result.

CrystalDiskMark 2.0

The simplest and most frequently used program in this regard, you can download it on my Yandex.Disk

The utility is very simple, select only the desired drive letter (in our case E :)

And press AII, the SSHD disk performance test will start.

1. Test of sequential reading and writing of large data blocks;

2. Test of random reading and writing in 512 KB blocks;

3. Test of random read and write in 4 KB blocks;

I can say that the result is very decent, especially the recording in 512 KB and 4 KB blocks.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Let's test the hybrid disk with one more program - ATTO Disk Benchmark.

Select the drive letter of the SSHD hybrid drive and click Start.

Result.

SiSoftware Sandra

A global program capable of diagnosing all computer components and having its own official rating.

As a result, our disk is ahead of 94% of the results. Excellent performance.

Disadvantages of SSHD

In my opinion, the only drawback of SSHD is the small amount of built-in flash memory of 8 GB, it would be great if its size increased to 32 GB, then more running programs could be placed in the cache of the solid-state device and Windows performance it would be exactly as if it were installed on an SSD.

Hello admin! I want to buy a hard drive with a volume of 1-2 TB, one computer friend advised me to buy an SSHD drive (a hybrid of a hard drive and an SSD solid-state drive), since it works much faster than a conventional HDD, but not as expensive as an SSD solid-state drive. What can you say about such discs?

Hello friends! That's a very good question. Yes, Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) is 30% faster than a conventional hard drive, and about the same is more expensive. If a regular 1 TB hard drive costs 4,000 rubles, then an SSHD can be bought for 5,400 rubles. Such discs are produced both for ordinary computers and for laptops.

At first, what is a hybrid hard drive

The technology of production of hard drives (the only component of a computer with moving mechanical parts) has long come to a standstill and it is almost impossible to increase the performance of a hard drive by production, which proves the emergence of SSD solid-state drives and hybrid SSHD hard drives on the market. But if a solid-state drive is a completely non-mechanical storage device based on memory microcircuits, then a hybrid hard drive is primarily a regular hard drive with a fast MLC flash memory card (8 GB) soldered on it, used in the production of solid-state drives. that is, it turns out that SSHD is a hybrid of a conventional hard drive and an SSD.

Second, why an SSHD hybrid hard drive is faster than a conventional hard drive

Seagate SSHDs use self-learning technology - Seagate Adaptive Memory, which examines the operating system installed on the disk from the first seconds of operation, as a result, the most often used programs and files are copied to the flash memory of the SSHD disk, such files include, first of all, the elements involved in loading the operating system, which means Windows from the second, third time will be boot faster, because Windows will be loaded from flash memory. For example, on my computer, booting Windows 8.1 installed on a regular HDD takes 35-40 seconds, and on SSHD - 20 seconds, on a regular SSD - 15 seconds. The same applies to the applications you constantly use, they will start up a little faster. Take, for example, a modern game that is demanding on computer resources, which you constantly play, according to my observations, such a game will load three times faster than on a regular HDD.

Hybrid hard drive SSHD, it's the golden mean

In general, the ideal configuration of drives in the system unit of an ordinary home user looks like this: two drives are bought, the first is a solid-state SSD (volume 120-240 GB) for installing the operating system, and the second is a regular HDD for storing files (volume) 2-3 TB , you need about 10,000 rubles for all this. And if you buy one 1TB SSHD, it will cost you 5,400 rubles, and a 2TB SSHD - 7,000 rubles. Of course, everything will not fly (as is the case with SSD), but you may not need such speeds. A hybrid SSHD disk comes out, this is the golden mean - for a little money you get good performance and a large amount of disk space.

Which SSHD to buy

Until recently, SSHD hybrid drives were manufactured by the company that developed them - Seagate. In total, there are currently three models of Seagate Desktop SSHD on the market with a volume of 1, 2, 4 TB.

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST1000DX001 1 TB

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2 TB

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST4000DX001 4 TB

Also recently, Western Digital began to produce SSHD, but they are few on the market, and the model that I came across - WD Blue SSHD, WD40E31X with a volume of 4 TB - did not differ in any way in speed characteristics from a similar model Seagate ST4000DX001 4 TB.

In today's article I suggest you consider the Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2 TB model and here's why. If we take the Seagate Desktop SSHD 1 TB model, then the 1 TB disk space is already not enough for the modern computer user. If we take the Seagate Desktop SSHD 4 TB model, then on the contrary, not everyone needs a large amount of 4 TB of disk space, and its price is quite high (11,500 rubles), and what is also important - the spindle rotation speed of this drive: 5900 rpm, that is, it is slightly slower than other 1 and 2 TB SSHDs (spindle speed 7200 rpm) and this will certainly affect the operating system's performance.

So, I persuaded you and we have a model Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2 TB

Upon closer examination, the Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001 2TB hybrid drive turned out to be an ordinary hard drive, only SSHD is written on it.

Disk space - 2 TB

SSD buffer capacity - 8 GB

The amount of cache memory - 64 MB

Spindle speed - 7200 rpm

On the back of the drive we see a special printed circuit board Adaptive Memory with 8 GB of fast MLC memory soldered and a hybrid controller.

It is very easy to install the drive into the system unit.

SMART hard drive in CrystalDiskInfo and Victoria.

The hybrid drive is new and lasted 0 hours.

Read and write tests

To make sure that our disk is really good, we will perform several tests on reading and writing with special programs: CrystalDiskMark 2.0, ATTO Disk Benchmark and SiSoftware Sandra. These utilities will sequentially read and write information to our hybrid disk in small blocks, then show us the result.

CrystalDiskMark 2.0

The simplest and most frequently used program in this regard, you can download it on my Yandex.Disk

The utility is very simple, select only the desired drive letter (in our case E :)

And press AII, the SSHD disk performance test will start.

1. Test of sequential reading and writing of large data blocks;

2. Test of random reading and writing in 512 KB blocks;

3. Test of random read and write in 4 KB blocks;

I can say that the result is very decent, especially the recording in 512 KB and 4 KB blocks.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Let's test the hybrid disk with one more program - ATTO Disk Benchmark.

Select the drive letter of the SSHD hybrid drive and click Start.

Result.

SiSoftware Sandra

A global program capable of diagnosing all computer components and having its own official rating.

As a result, our disk is ahead of 94% of the results. Excellent performance.

Disadvantages of SSHD

In my opinion, the only drawback of SSHD is the small amount of built-in flash memory of 8 GB, it would be great if its size grew to 32 GB, then more running programs could be placed in the cache of the solid-state device and Windows performance would be exactly the same as if it was installed on an SSD.

author IMORAL SOCIOPAT asked a question in the section Software

Tell me how to properly install Windows 7/8 on SSHD? and got the best answer

Answer from † Codename87 † [guru]
Where did you get that everything is so divided between them? And how can this even be ?! Yes, and nah all this ?! Some kind of fuss, moreover, useless. I bought a regular SSD and installed the system on it. I bought a regular HDD - you use it as a file looser. So many do.
As far as I understand, SSHD is the same HDD, only with an additional, so to speak, memory module (faster and more voluminous), which is used for the cache, that's all, that is, it speeds up copying to some extent: useful for small kilobytes files and is practically useless on GB files, because the cache is not rubbery. But to divide Windows into parts - this is the first time I hear about this in my years. Most likely you misunderstood something.
† Codename87 †
Enlightened
(48810)
what exactly confuses you? hidden sections whether?
show some thread a screen, so let's say the proof of all this, that Windows is so broken into parts.

Answer from Leri[guru]
the system is actually installed, all on only one active media ...
there is no such thing as secondary destination files, here additional programs you can then at least install on an external one ...

Answer from SanSej[guru]
As far as I know, the pre-installed Windows is done like this: 2 disks are created, formatted. Then the first (which should be C :, system) volume is deleted. And the system is put in an empty place (it turns out in front). In this form of installation, 2 sections are created from scratch:
1.Hidden partition that contains Windows bootloader
2.Disk C: system with Windows itself.
With such an installation, the bootloader is less likely to be attacked by viruses, and less likely to crash.
In your case, put Windu on a completely empty SSD
Disk D: then you can make it in Windows, like a logical volume from the HDD (or several volumes-D: E: ...)

Answer from Alexander Ivanov[guru]
Perhaps by "secondary" you mean the swap and hibernation file, So it is better to disable hibernation altogether, and it is better to keep the swap file on the system partition

Answer from Evgeny kushnarev[guru]
if 64-128 gigs are all under the system. and important programs. the rest on disk2.HDD-and for working with it without hassle-utility, respectively, the AMD platform or for Intel. Let the SSD Tweaker watch. and uploading. movies, video, everything on the HDD is desirable.

Answer from IvAN[guru]
There is no need to mislead anyone here with your conjectures. Hybrid disks are almost ordinary disks and the SSD part there is controlled by the firmware for some acceleration of the system as a whole, but not cardinal. It is too small to store axis files on it, it is just a fast L2 cache in processors. There is no division of the system there and cannot be !!! Here is an article from Seagate: www. seagate.com/ru/ru/do-more/laptop-sshd-upgrade-master-dm/
Routine cloning from an old disk to a new hybrid.

Answer from Brain Dumovitsky[guru]

Answer from . [guru]
Installation and Windows setup 7 to SSD> link

Answer from _ _ [newbie]
Don't make yourself a problem! everything is just done, you break the disk into two system and logical partitions and put everything in Windows!