Solid State Drive or Solid State Hybrid Drive?

SSD's are significantly faster overall than SSHD's, some specific tasks may be performed at similar speeds, but most will be much faster.

But you will pay more for the same space.

The research I've done so far doesn't seem to find much of a difference in terms of speed between the two.

Csound1 is right, it's not even close. The difference will be the amount of storage versus price.

The Hybrid drive is much faster than a standard hard rive but the SSD is even faster. I have both and I like both but my SSD is my favorite.

The Hybrid drive is much faster than a standard hard rive

That will depend on the definiton of "standard." If standard is the typical 5400 rpm drive that ships with a MacMini, Yes. If it's a 5400 rpm Fusion drive setup, then, No.

It's never clear when you have to guess about the OP's specific configuration, a "1 TB what?"

Lanny wrote:version.

The Hybrid drive is much faster than a standard hard rive

That will depend on the definiton of "standard." If standard is the typical 5400 rpm drive that ships with a MacMini, Yes. If it's a 5400 rpm Fusion drive setup, then, No.

I replaced a 7200RPM Seagate Momentus (7200.4 version) drive with a 7200RPM Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid, the drives are mechanically identical other than the 8GB of SSD fitted to the XT. and it is a lot faster than the non hybrid version. I have not had the time to test against a fusion drive but would expect that with 128GB of SSD rather than 8GB the fusion drive would be faster.

I agree, but we don't really know what the OP has other than it's 1 TB.

By the way, I using the same Hybrid drive in a MacMini. It replaced a original special ordered 7200rpm drive.

Well if it's a fusion drive then only a full SSD will be faster (and not by much either) if it's a normal 1TB HDD then any hybrid will be faster regardless of the speed of the original drive. But a full SSD will be faster still.

Agreed.

I liked my hybrid enough that I purchased s 2nd one for my MacBook Pro 17". The MacBook Pro died about a year ago, after frying its 2nd logic board, so I moved the drive into a OWC FW800 enclosure.

That being said, they'll probably be the last mechanical hard drives that I'll buy.

SSHD suck, they are slow. Go with the SSD. BUT if you need hard drive space then go with the SSHD.

As stated they are faster than HDD's and slower than SSD's, they also cost about the same as an HDD, far less than an SSD.

How is your reply the solution to the problem?

buy a Samsung

I think if you go to About This Mac>System Report>Hardware>SATA the RPM will be listed.

The stock drives in 2012 Mini were 5400 RPM

Peter Dino wrote:

Looks like I'll have to go with the SSD in spite of the price. What companies would you recommend?

Although pricey, the Samsung 850 Pro series provides the

best performance and has a 10 year warranty.

There are less expensive drives with somewhat lower performance

but they will typically only have a 3 year warranty.

All SSDs have a limited number of write cycles. With the 10 year warranty,

you would surely be covered for the use over the life span of your Mini.

Something to consider.

Not sure how important a 10 yr. warranty is as the rest of your mac will become obsolete before that time. Also, at the a rate prices are falling on SSD's my guess in 3 years you could buy another for the cost save of getting the standard 850 or 840 Samsung.