SSD or HDD?

[NeilFX]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/66758-crucial-mx100-512gb-ssd-review-10.html

For your information.

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[DeViLzzz]

Your ignorance is unbearable. Read up some reviews and some tech videos showing the performance of an SSD in games. Yea it doesn't add a 20% boost to your FPS but it DOES decrease your loading times by a significant margin. For a gamer, that's a huge deal.

it is not ignorance.  I am just not impatient like the fast moving world of today with people needing this and that right away.  Like you said it doesn't boost FPS and as for it increasing load times give me a break.  Yeah I want that small amount of time back that it takes to load up my game.  Not.  Also like I have said before often with games anything that loads up during a game is offset by respawn times or if you are watching cg movie well your 10 or 20 man raid if they need you is going to wait for you anyway.  SSDs are hardly for gamers.  The money is better spent on more important things like putting that money to a better video card to raise minimum fps or maximum fps or heck spend it on something outside of gaming.

[azreal99]

I have to say that shifting my games onto an SSD had made a significant difference to performance, for me at least. The idea that FPS is the only important thing in relation to games seems a bit odd to me, but each to their own I suppose. I do care about load times, stutter and other things that an SSD can (and in my case, does) help with.

 

I don't agree that something cannot be said to benefit gaming unless it boosts FPS. That would be somewhat like saying optimised peripherals are pointless too, because they don't alter FPS either. But they do greatly improve your experience when gaming, and the same is true of SSDs. Shorter load times, less judder etc...all good.

 

TO THE OP: The advice to get a 120GB SSD and a mass storage HDD is solid. I use a 120GB SSD for my systems' OSs and it just makes life so much easier. Want to upgrade your OS? Fine, just deal with that one drive and leave everything else on your system alone. Want to work on a system with a damaged drive? Okay, just stick your 120GB drive in and you can sort out access very easily. It's not only useful for your specific system, it's also a good utility.

 

Once you get used to the SSD though, as was said, you'll not go back. I run 2 500GB SSDs for my main files and then mirrored HDDs for storage and primary back-up. It keeps everything quick, whilst retaining storage. I recommend it.

[kuddlesworth9419]

SSD for vital programs and OS and HDD for mass storage and less vital programs. I have and SSD and 2 HDD's the HDD's are a backup of one another and the SSD has a few games on, most of my other software and my OS. I kind of like that way because if one HDD fails I still all have my important stuff and my SSD stays fast with all the most used stuff on it.

[Kimmaz]

I would get a HDD now, and then get a SSD later. why? cause SSD's would most likely drop in price or at least get bigger in a year or 2. And HDD's are so cheap they can only get more expensive!

 

Or look at it another way: If your tight on space atm, get a hdd, if you got many TB left on your external and don't understand how to fill it up, get a ssd ^^

[adnank77]

If getting SSD means you'll compromise in GPU, then get HDD now and upgrade to SSD later .. Note that you don't need to format if you got one with migration tool later (like the Samsung SSDs). 

 

But if budget can fit both, go for SSD. 

 

Personally, I don't recommend small SSDs .. least you should get is 240 GB ..