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Rizzo083

Rizzo083

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Put your OS on your ssd or do you keep your ssd for games? My ssd that's less than a year old, no warrenty extended or not, has just took a big ol steamy pile on me. So while I'm gearing up to go shopping I wanted to see what my fellow tech heads think. Save your ssd for games and other files and keep your OS on another drive (ssd or not) or what do you all think?


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Put your OS on the SSD.

Use a regular 7200 rpm HDD for media storage (music, movies, games, etc.)

Unless you play only single player games, there's not much to be gained using your SSD's space for game files.
 
Thank you for your quick reply it helped as I was standing there looking at new hard drives. Got me the new evo Samsung pro and then a 2tb 7200 for everything else. Again appreciate the help. Glad eGO also has forums for things like this.
 
No problem. Feel free to message me or make future threads for any other questions you may have.
 
I have 120GB ssd. I used that for my OS and for a few games.

Snipeye said:
Put your OS on the SSD.

Use a regular 7200 rpm HDD for media storage (music, movies, games, etc.)

Unless you play only single player games, there's not much to be gained using your SSD's space for game files.
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In BF4.. its does matter.If you want to spawn on that chopper first you need fast load times. But if you are mostly infantry it does not matter
 
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What Snipeye said. It'll also depend on how much space you have and how much space you err towards using. I have a 480GB SSD and even with all my games, programs and OS on the drive, I'm barely using even close to half so I just have everything on one drive.

If you have a nice, roomy SSD then you can always put your big-name games on the drive and put your apps, programs etc. on the HDD. If you don't have much room, maybe consider just throwing a game or two that loads particularly sluggishly onto your SSD.

Your OS and browser(s) should ALWAYS be on the SSD if you have one, though. SSDs are practically made for operating systems and the substantial difference in boot times, load times, transfer speeds etc. are phenomenal.
 
I just don't see the point in SSD quite yet. I think a 7200 RPM SATA HDD will do the job... Wait til SSD gets cheaper with more capacity.
 
2 SSD's Raid 0 256GB each. That's the way to do it. No need for hard drives anymore with these babies.
 
Lethedethius said:
I just don't see the point in SSD quite yet. I think a 7200 RPM SATA HDD will do the job... Wait til SSD gets cheaper with more capacity.
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You'll always be waiting, and by which time, the next technology of storage could be created/used. Compared to a year, two years ago, SSD technology has already dropped in price dramatically. Since SATA storage is old, there's no way SSD will be of equal or lower price than that except when SATA is phased out completely from production, like how DDR RAM died off to DDR2 and now DDR3 RAM. The supplies of older RAM is still available, but very small so their cost is much higher than DDR3 produced in gross batches.
 
Lethedethius said:
I just don't see the point in SSD quite yet. I think a 7200 RPM SATA HDD will do the job... Wait til SSD gets cheaper with more capacity.
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You dont see the point of 1 maybe 2 second load times from a full start up vs a 10+ second start up on a normal 7200 RPM HDD? Its a dramatic jump and the price nowadays for an SSD is significantly low compare to a year or so ago like snipeye said. Its a great idea to pick up an SSD. Not only for storage but for overall performance increase.
 
Lethedethius said:
I just don't see the point in SSD quite yet. I think a 7200 RPM SATA HDD will do the job... Wait til SSD gets cheaper with more capacity.
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Buy an SSD and you'll see the point. I was the same as you. The only way this argument would be valid were if you had used it 1 or 2 years after SSDs first appeared-- now the price is pretty good for what you get.
 
Solid state drives are infinitivly better then Hard Disk Drives.

They're faster
you'll see load times and os boot times increase by up to 70 % vs HDDs
They're reliable
Unlike HDDs which have moving parts, SSDs do not have any moving parts and will almost always arrive without defaults. Where as the HDDs run into so many problems, being moved around in a truck. You're paying a lot more for an SSD, but you can almost guaranteed it will work upon arrival.
They're smaller
without moving parts, they can compact the storage device into a 2.5 " drive bay. where as the HDD takes up a 3.5" drive bay.
They're silent !
No moving parts = no noise
They use less power
They don't use as much power as the HDD, thus extending the life of your power supply.
They don't generate heat
No friction inside of the hard drive, so no heat is exhausted
They're lighter
More portable then an HDD, SSDs can fit inside of your pocket.

Relating the topic, I have my os and league of legends, along with all of my driver updates on my SSD, I keep steam games, pictures and such on the mass storage HDD, because when that breaks, I can always re-download my stuff, where as drives and such should be kept in case of a faulty drive version.
 
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icydud said:
Solid state drives are infinitivly better then Hard Disk Drives.

They're faster
you'll see load times and os boot times increase by up to 70 % vs HDDs
They're reliable
Unlike HDDs which have moving parts, SSDs do not have any moving parts and will almost always arrive without defaults. Where as the HDDs run into so many problems, being moved around in a truck. You're paying a lot more for an SSD, but you can almost guaranteed it will work upon arrival.
They're smaller
without moving parts, they can compact the storage device into a 2.5 " drive bay. where as the HDD takes up a 3.5" drive bay.
They're silent !
No moving parts = no noise
They use less power
They don't use as much power as the HDD, thus extending the life of your power supply.
They don't generate heat
No friction inside of the hard drive, so no heat is exhausted
They're lighter
More portable then an HDD, SSDs can fit inside of your pocket.

Relating the topic, I have my os and league of legends, along with all of my driver updates on my SSD, I keep steam games, pictures and such on the mass storage HDD, because when that breaks, I can always re-download my stuff, where as drives and such should be kept in case of a faulty drive version.
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HDD's come in 2.5 inches too...

There is also quite a big difference in price to capacity ratio. SSD's arent quite up there in storage devices just yet but I do believe that not even many manufacturers make high capacity SSD's.

SSD's I would only see be useful for video, graphic design where it stresses a lot on hard drive write speeds and CPU speeds and for gamers to use their OS on and maybe a very small amount of games.
 
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