Re: Hybrid Hard Drive?
A solid state drive is the primary drive in my main computer. It is a Kingston 240 gigabyte SSD. Not an expensive drive. If it went wrong, it could be replaced with a similar new one for just over £50 (Amazon price).
240 gigabytes may not seem a large drive by today's standards but this is enough to store quite a lot on. A fair number of heavy programs and games are installed yet only half the disk's space has been used. Also stored on it are the folders containing photos, video clips, documents and other user-created files. Still lots of gigabytes to go yet and no need to worry about running short of space.
The computer also has a second internal hard drive (D: drive), this being a 1 terabyte HDD. It is used for storing downloads and all sorts of miscellaneous programs and files. Disk images are stored on this drive too. The drive's contents are copied to an external USB 3.0 drive once in a while.
I haven't tried
Macrium Reflect but have used
Aomei Backupper and
EaseUS ToDo. I had some trouble with both of these. Images made would not write back to the disk. However, this was all a while ago and I suspect it may have been something to do with UEFI. I later read that if I'd gone into the motherboard settings and changed them, I might have been able to use the images. Imaging programs can better deal with this aspect now I believe.
Windows 10 still includes the imaging function that was introduced with Windows 7. I find this is good enough and it's all I've used for some time now. I have had occasion to use the disk images for restoration or 'winding back' purposes. No problems experienced so far and I have a good degree of confidence in them working when needed.