Laquer Head
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It's pretty bad.
Are SSHDs any good?
- Thread starter The VCR King
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It's pretty bad.
I once worked on an ex girlfriend's grandmother's machine (blech), and it took like 2 hours to run CCleaner and not even exaggerating, 20 mins to boot up. It was an XP machine that wasn't terribly old, but good God there's an impressive amount of trash people can find and install without knowing.
Laquer Head
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*grabs some popcorn and hides to watch the show*
I had a customer that browsed so many different websites that no matter what I set his browser settings to, his HDD would fill up and he'd bring it in for me to run CCleaner on it.
I've never had one single problem running Ccleaner on the hundreds of machines I've used it on.
Edited my previous post. It was the registry cleaner part and it completely borked my Games for Windows Live app for GTA IV. Only way to make the game work again was reinstall 7. Granted GFWL is terrible, but still.
Fair enough I guess. I've had it help some, either placebo or otherwise. Before you do a clean you're prompted to create a backup so might as well try it. I don't expect wonders by any means, but I'll do it while I'm in CCleaner for the normal cleaning function.
I ran TFC on a test web server the other morning because it was low on space. Freed just under 1GB of space.
The VCR King
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So would the process of cloning a 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSD be the same as 1TB HDD to another 1TB HDD?
Sure, they're just storage.
Personally I'd do a fresh format though and transfer data over afterward, especially since it's been a while. Then you won't inherit all of the other unused garbage on your current drive.
Laquer Head
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I'll answer that for him... NO
Use the SSD you have already. Just listen to us when we tell you how to separate things between the drives and you won't have low space issues on your SSD 
JaredDM
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Getting back to the original OP's question, it's definitely best at this point to stick with a separate SSD OS drive and add a secondary HDD. SSHDs have a lot of future potential, and I suspect you'll be seeing a lot more of them in the future. However right now they are all experiencing a lot of issues with these including NAND memory failures, PCB failures, firmware issues, and the likes. The merging of the two technologies is just too new and they haven't worked out the bugs yet.
A few years from now, I suspect I'll be giving the opposite advice especially now that Toshiba is really throwing their hat in the SSHD ring.
A few years from now, I suspect I'll be giving the opposite advice especially now that Toshiba is really throwing their hat in the SSHD ring.
Doesn't matter as I'll never buy a Toshiba drive even though they are owned by Western Digital. I feel the Toshiba drives are one of the worst drives out there.
I'd even take a Hitatchi DeathStar before a Toshiba drive.
Man, the DeathStar moniker is over a decade old at this point