hybrid HDD

It should give better performance then a standard drive. However, you are comparing a laptop hard drive to a desktop hard drive. Not sure if you meant to do that or not.
 
Well, there will be a difference. According to most reviews I've read, once the hybrid drive has "learned" the usage patterns (takes about 2-3 starts), your boot/load times on most commonly used software could come down to a half or in best case third of what you would get from an equivalent HDD. It's still nowhere near a true SSD and you'll want to know that the SSD is only used for reads, so the write performance remains on par with your normal mechanical hard drives.

Of course, I've never used one myself, but if I were in your position I would take the hybrid drive since it's only marginally more expensive than the normal one and I am not aware of any disadvantages compared to mechanical drives.

Here's a very good review I read not long ago, and AFAIK they've improved since with their newer firmware.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd
 
yea i noticed that but other than size is there any diffrence between a laptop hdd and a desktop hdd, they are both 500gb 32m/b cache 7200rpm and 3.0Gb/s.
 
You'll need a 3.5 to 2.5 adapter in order to attach it to your case, unless your case has a dedicated ssd slot.
 
They are ok. I have installed two of them in builds. They seem faster in some aspects, boot and load times. Some people say they are loud, but the ones I installed wasn't. Kinda weird they have not done this with more of there main harddrives. Seems it would have been better to put 10/12gb of flash. But would have probably drove the price up.
 
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