Hello, I've been reading up on SSD's and i have a few questions.
EDIT: I Just watched a video that said I will need to reinstall Windows onto the SSD card for it to work properly. If this is true ignore the questions.
1) Am I able to run a SSD and HD at the same time?
2) Is it better to use just SSD and get rid of the HD or can I use both without any complications?
3) Are SSD's complicated to hook up?
4) Do I need to program it to my computer or will it work on start up?
5) Will a cheap $100 SSD do the trick?
6) Is there a huge difference between cheap and high end SSD's?
Thank-you for your time!
It you want to boot from the ssd and have a faster windows experience you will need to have your windows installation on the ssd. If you wanted you could just install programs onto the ssd leaving windows on your hdd, the files and programs on the ssd would load faster, but would not effect windows.
You can run a ssd and hdd at the same time.
Its best to use the ssd for your windows installation and programs that are used more often. SSD's are more expensive than there hdd counterparts, so often people choose to buy a small capacity ssd's to improve performance at a lower cost and then buy the cheaper larger hdd's and use them to as storage or to run programs used less often in an effort to save space on the ssd for more important things.
SSD's are no more complicated to install than hdd, but many desktop cases to not cater for 2.5 inch drives and will require brackets to install them into the 3.5 inch bays.
Cheap ssd's are usually still much faster than hdd, larger capacity and/or higher performance ssd's will of course be more expensive. Many respectable companies offer more affordable ssd's which perform much better than traditional hdd's, but read and write speeds can vary greatly from one ssd to another.
I personally like ssd's as they make windows load much faster and greatly reduce loading times in games, but for me ssd's that are expensive just because they are faster, even if they are greatly faster, not worth the price. For example if a game were to take 5 seconds to load on my current ssd, then an ssd twice as fast should save me 2.5 seconds in theory, but would most likely be much more expensive, it up to the individual to decide if the extra performance justifies the extra costs, for me its usually no, because even cheap ssd's are very fast these days and destroy hdd's in performance.
