SSD or HHD?

[Metalboz]

Looking at a new build and cant decide whether to go for a 7200RPM HHD or an SSD.

Obviously SSDs are 'slightly' faster but is it worth the money as you only getaround 120GB for the same price of a 2TB HHD?

What do people think are the better options and what are the pros and cons of each?

Just want to know what people think

 

[kilobravo]

You only need 60gb ssd for os and most important programs.Hdd for storage,games and stuff like that.

And its not only slightly faster,its immensely faster

.You can open how manny programs,browser,games,pictures and no waiting.

 

[KingDazza]

It all depends on what you want stored on it. Large files like videos and media would be as well placed on a HDD. But for me personally, OS on SSD is a must and next step would be games on one too, money permitting.

I manged to last week snatch a 512Gb M4 Crucial SSD for £435 brand new. Thats finally allowed all my games to go over to SSD. So maybe do it in stages. OS initially and wait for a good deal at some point for another to take your games.

 

[Metalboz]

But is the cost/space worth it as SSDs are only slightly faster.

The drive will be for OS as I have a 2TB NAS for media, however I still need space for programs. Is it not worth just buying a 2TB HDD for the same price as an SSD which will only really fit OS and essential programs?

 

[Metalboz]

Most SATA 6 HHDs are around the same data transfer rates as SSDs anyway so they can't be that much faster?

 

[KingDazza]

Whilst I'm not sure I agree with your statement on transfer speeds. Regardless, the big difference of course is in seek times. SSD's have a negligible seek/access time due to no moving parts. So 0.1 vs 8.9....

 

[Metalboz]

So they are faster at accessing the data then where as HDDs require time to spin up

Best option is just put my hand deeper in my pocket and buy 2 drives isn't it

 

[SnW]

Yea just do both IMO.........

 

[sleepylilazn]

SSDs are faster by a large margin. Do you need one? Depends on what you are using it for and if you want the speed. The only real pro hdd have is the price to storage ratio. So it really depends on what you want.

 

[BKCXb]

I'm on an almost 10 year old machine that had $600 worth of 74 Gig WD rator drives set up in RAID 0.

I recentley upgradded to a cheap Intel 320 series SATA2 120Gig SSD. (by cheap I mean free!! It should of cost $169 though)

All I can say is I'm never looking back!

My rapror's would give me 20 second boots into windows XP when new, but windows 7 took a couple minutes

My mother board is stuck with SATA2 connections and performance is differet between the 2.

Raptors RAID O - Read and writes SEQ at 160+ MB

- 4k performance was in the low teens

- boot time took minutes

- you could feel delays between clicking something and wating for it to be usable

- 2 10,000 RPM HD spinning are loud and use alot of power

Intel 320 - SEQ Reads are in the 260+ MB range and Writes drop to about 95 MB

- 4k is high teens pushing 20MB

- boot times in the 30 sec range

- clicking something feels almost instantly usable

- 1 totally silent cool drive uses less power than most peoples case lights

 

[Metalboz]

Thanks for all the replies.

I want the rig to react to what I tell it to do so the SSD is definitely the better option

Thinking about it more, my worry has more been about cost and warranting paying so much for such a small size storage device.