Why isn't SSHD more popular? I have a 1tb SSHD in my laptop

You will have a HDD which laptop will have to spend extra power to spin so less battery life.

My guess is that for majority of people SSD+HDD combo is better and SSHD is kind of niche.
I have SSHD and can't complaing.

>>60988795
Drawbacks of both without the benefits of either, basically.

You're still dealing with spinning platters. You can't drop the thing and you get shit latency/IOPS from them. You pay more than you do for a vanilla HDD. You have the SSD cache that ameliorates some of that, but in a way you can't control. The drive decides what's cached, you can't tell it "keep this program in flash so that it starts fast" or anything. It might be fast or slow, depending on when you used it, the drive's algorithms, and the phase of the moon. And you're going to run into that because the cache is only a moderate number of GB, to keep the cost down below a pure SSD.

Pick a lane. Either the speed of an SSD is worth the penalty in cost per GB, or it isn't. There's no sense in trying to split the difference.

>>60988795
they are shit, i have one qtb 8gb ssd, unless you have their premium software and if they support your model you will gain "performance", else is shit

>>60988795
Tiny SSD capacity.

>>60988795
Because it's only useful if you have some shit laptop that's huge enough to have 2.5 bay but has no m.2 / msata and need 1TB+ storage there.

>>60988880
The fuck are you talking about? Seagate sshd caching is absolutely transparent.

>>60988795
Because you can't control what gets stored on the SSD part. It's better to just get an SSD and HDD separate.