SSD vs. HDD

[FXB]

What are your point of views on both?

HDD: Larger Storage capacity. cheaper per gigabyte


SDD: No mechanical parts instant booting more expensive per gigabyte.

 

[ScottALot]

Right now, it's not a pick between one or the other. It's extremely common to see a low capacity SSD with the OS and key programs paired with a main storage mechanical HDD.

 

[Russ88765]

According to my research..

SSD- less weight, shock resistant, faster, less cooling/power use, more expensive. Longer operational life.

HD- heavier, not shock resistant, slower, avg cooling/power use/needs, less expensive. Less operational life.

Neither is bad necessarily, just how they rate against each other. SSD smokes HD's at everything except cost and capacity imo.

 

[FXB]

IS the speed difference significant?

 

[jgoff14]

I went from mech to ssd and I'm glad I did. It wasn't cheap at $300 but with my build I felt that it was needed and worth it to match the performance I required.

 

[BuddyLee81]

IS the speed difference significant?

Very significant. Again, it all depends on what you want to do.

 

[FXB]

I went from mech to ssd and I'm glad I did. It wasn't cheap at $300 but with my build I felt that it was needed and worth it to match the performance I required.

How do you use your SSD?

 

[jgoff14]

I use it as my boot drive, and a couple games simply because the load times are instant! Instant being less than 5 seconds in sc2 from start to in game. I have the 500gb for storage but don't really need it. I don't keep movies, pics, or music so to me 128gb is good. I do plan on putting some older games on it where they already load so fast and it doesn't matter anyway.