SSD or Trusty 7200rpm?

[james518]

I am not sure which i should get. I have purchased the new p8p67 Asus motherboard with i7-2600k cpu/R970 Msi Ati Gpu. I was striving for the best and aiming for the fence. I am worried about SSD and not familiar to it. Also scared of throwing my money away on old RPM drives..

I am going to game and i have a 1.5tb external harddrive where i can store anything on.

I was thinking going with the SSD ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233122 ) as primary Windows 7 base, and have the other harddrive to store "anything" even games.... Now the harddrive thats 1.5tb is low RPM and SATA II since it was in a external.

should i go with
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136544

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233122 (does this drive come with SATA 3G cables? does SATA 2G cables work on 3G?)

I dont want to have the other hardrive {1.5tb} slow me down......

Just stuck in a hole need to climb out with help lolol

 

[salvage-this]

Just to clear this up you are not planning to use your external for programs and everything else right?

The external would be 5400rpm which is a bit slow so I would go with the caviar black only unless you can get the funds for both a 7200 drive and an SSD.

 

[Shane]

If you can spare a little more cash get yourself an OCZ Vertex 2 60Gb for your primary drive to install the OS + antivirus on.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...610&cm_re=ocz_vertex_2-_-20-227-610-_-Product


Then get or use a standard 7200rpm drive for the rest of your stuff such as games,applications ets.

use your external as a "Data storage" only.

Thats how i have mine setup and it works very well.

Btw dont get that SSD you linked too,Its using the older crappy Indilinx controller,get one with a Sandforce controller...that one i linked to has SandForce SF1200 controller.

 

[Benny Boy]

If you can spare a little more cash get yourself an OCZ Vertex 2 60Gb for your primary drive to install the OS + antivirus on.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...610&cm_re=ocz_vertex_2-_-20-227-610-_-Product
Btw dont get that SSD you linked too,Its using the older crappy Indilinx controller,get one with a Sandforce controller...that one i linked to has SandForce SF1200 controller.

Frequently there will be a 60gb Sandforce drive for around $100, which was probably the intendend link.