In article , Oregonian Haruspex
wrote:

I see no benefit to those new-fangled "hybrid" drives (really just a HD
with a bigger, smarter cache) because the rust will still be spinning
all the time.

hybrid drives are actually not that great and only slightly better than
a normal hd. it's basically a big cache for recently used files, which
may not be the ones that matter.

apple's fusion drive is a much better solution because it intelligently
moves commonly used files to ssd and lesser used files to the hard
drive, but even that is not a significant improvement over a normal hd
unless you only use a small subset of files that ultimately are now on
ssd.

there's a huge, huge difference between an ssd and either of the above.