Which is better?

[Davidff1991]

What are some of the pros/cons of having your entire computer on a 1tb ssd vs having your os on a 120gb and everything else on a high quality hdd?

[KamiKatze]

CON: merging your drives for a transfer onto a large SSD later down the road (once big SSDs are cheap-ish) will be more difficult.

CON: you allways have to worry about where to install stuff and where not. It's a bit more fiddely.

 

PRO: Speed and snappy-ness

PRO: speed and snappy-ness

PRO: speed and snappy-ness

[ictdude1]

well if you use a good ssd the os will load faster and if you combine it with a fast hard drive like a western digital black drive what ever you load on that drive should be fast, but if you have a slow hard drive like a 5400 rpm hard drive you are stuck with a fast ssd but slow loading applications on the hard drive 

[LogicalDrm]

SSDs have limited amount of writes that can be done. That would be the biggest con on storing everything on SSD. So moving files around and such will reduce lifespan.

[Dimwitted]

SSDs have limited amount of writes that can be done. That would be the biggest con on storing everything on SSD. So moving files around and such will reduce lifespan.

 

While true it's a bit of an overstatement as well. The current drives seems to be pretty robust with the limits coming out to 10 years or more at fairly heavy duty cycles. If you load up the drive with the O/S and apps you're reading far more than you're writing. I very sure you'll get tired of the drive far more than it will "run out" on you.

[LogicalDrm]

While true it's a bit of an overstatement as well. The current drives seems to be pretty robust with the limits coming out to 10 years or more at fairly heavy duty cycles. If you load up the drive with the O/S and apps you're reading far more than you're writing. I very sure you'll get tired of the drive far more than it will "run out" on you.

 

That also depends per drive. Thats why I didn't put any numbers there. Yes, you can and most likely will get drive which lasts as long as you need it to. But there are also drive (mostly on cheaper side) which will come near to their limit faster.