Dual boot? Or two HD's?

[Simon]

I'm looking to dual boot on my main pc. I was wondering which would be best to do


Dual boot on a single HD?


Or purchase a second HD?


OS's being used:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Ubuntu 64-bit

 

[Ph?bus]

How big is your current HDD?
If it's 1TB+, dual boot. If not, then get a second HDD.

 

[Simon]

I currently have a 320 GB HD @ 7200rpm. I was thinking the second (Linux) HD would be like 120GB @ 10000rpm

 

[Ph?bus]

I currently have a 320 GB HD @ 7200rpm. I was thinking the second (Linux) HD would be like 120GB @ 10000rpm

Why 10000rpm? Why not just get a small SSD? Lol 3 second boot time ftw?

 

[Simon]

Does SSD use SATA?


Btw, 2x 10000rpm drives using raid0 = better performance than SSD

 

[Ph?bus]

Does SSD use SATA?


Btw, 2x 10000rpm drives using raid0 = better performance than SSD

Yes, it does.
Btw, 2x SSD drives using raid0 = beast.

 

[Simon]

Wanna link me to a cheap SSD? preferably from futureshop.ca, since it's close to me. Or best buy canada

 

[Ph?bus]

What, can't buy offline?
NCIX or Newegg.ca?

 

[Ph?bus]

Kingston SSD. Best and cheapest I could find. Every SSD at Futureshop was Web-only.

 

[Simon]

That one is in the laptop internal HD section?

And ordering online to Canada is a pain

 

[Ph?bus]

It's able to fit in a laptop, but it's good in desktops, too.
Are you really going to doubt me on something tech related? Lol

 

[Simon]

Haha, good point there my friend

 

[Ph?bus]

Lol.
Yeah, get that drive.
But when you do, I want some read/write speeds. >.>

 

[ronpaul]

Why 10000rpm? Why not just get a small SSD? Lol 3 second boot time ftw?

Because he can get 120GB at less than the price of the cheapest 64GB SSD, that would be why for me.

What's the point in running a nix box with that powerful an hdd if it's not going to be some kind of dedicated server, either game, file, web, media, and all that takes up space.

If you just want to tinker buy a netbook for the same price as an SSD and put nix on it, or use a Live cd

 

[Simon]

Ronpaul, I like that idea. But I would rather purchase a HD for my desktop, since I use it often and would prefer the performance.

That SSD is rather steep priced :/

 

[ronpaul]

Ronpaul, I like that idea. But I would rather purchase a HD for my desktop, since I use it often and would prefer the performance.

That SSD is rather steep priced :/

Do you even need a fast hdd then? What kind of reads/writes will you be doing with it? Either way, I would stick to 10k SATA drives until ssd gets cheap.

bam: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136296

 

[Ph?bus]

SSD's aren't meant for storage. They're only bad if you think of them like that. Yes, they are expensive, but they are so much faster than 7200 RPM drives.

 

[Simon]

I will be using this HD for my movies, music, programming, testing applications, and some gaming

 

[ronpaul]

I will be using this HD for my movies, music, programming, testing applications, and some gaming

Then you definitely want to stay away from ssd, unless you're interested in installing the os on the ssd and using ANOTHER drive for communal storage, then dealing with mounting the storage drive in windows and nix. I can see how you could justify a ssd OS and program drive and a 10k (even 7200) storage drive for all the media, but you can't accomplish everything you want to do with a single ssd.

 

[Ph?bus]

Then you definitely want to stay away from ssd, unless you're interested in installing the os on the ssd and using ANOTHER drive for communal storage, then dealing with mounting the storage drive in windows and nix. I can see how you could justify a ssd OS and program drive and a 10k (even 7200) storage drive for all the media, but you can't accomplish everything you want to do with a single ssd.

You can with this one!