Solo SSD vs HDD+SSD Solution

[ProtonovaR87]

Greetings, new to the forum been watching linustech channel for over a year lol. Been procrastinating making an account on the new forums for a while now. Nonetheless, didn't see myself needing any help anytime soon lol.

 

Anyways here's the question! I've search for the forums and didn't find anything conclusive.

 

 

Which is better in terms of performance?

 

1) Samsung 840 pro for Drive C.

or

2) VelociRaptor + Samsung 840 pro Cache.

 

Ignore budget for now, lets say both costed the same. If you have a similar solution please let me know how it is.

[FloRolf]

Pure SSD is always faster.

[Deddie]

Greetings, new to the forum been watching linustech channel for over a year lol. Been procrastinating making an account on the new forums for a while now. Nonetheless, didn't see myself needing any help anytime soon lol.

 

Anyways here's the question! I've search for the forums and didn't find anything conclusive.

 

 

Which is better in terms of performance?

 

1) Samsung 840 pro for Drive C.

or

2) VelociRaptor + Samsung 840 pro Cache.

 

Ignore budget for now, lets say both costed the same. If you have a similar solution please let me know how it is.

Single SSD will perform better or as good as a cached HDD.

This is because caching works so that your most used files will be cached and all that isn't cached will perform as a normal HDD.

[orangecat]

What is it going to be used for? If you are only goign to eb gamign just get a SSD for boot and a 7200RPM HDD for storage. A Velociraptor is only really good for high speed HDD storage like a scratch disk or workstation use.

[ProtonovaR87]

What is it going to be used for? If you are only goign to eb gamign just get a SSD for boot and a 7200RPM HDD for storage. A Velociraptor is only really good for high speed HDD storage like a scratch disk or workstation use.

Gaming, web dev, and video editing. For the editing I offload that to my other raptors. Therefore, I would say... light usage?

[orangecat]

Gaming, web dev, and video editing. For the editing I offload that to my other raptors. Therefore, I would say... light usage?

Yea light use sounds about right. Just use the SSD for boot and take half of it for a HDD cache.

[ProtonovaR87]

Yea light use sounds about right. Just use the SSD for boot and take half of it for a HDD cache.

What do you mean by HDD cache? I should offload applications to an HDD and have it cached?

 

Btw thanks to everyone who took the time to respond!

[orangecat]

What do you mean by HDD cache? I should offload applications to an HDD and have it cached?

 

Btw thanks to everyone who took the time to respond!

You can setup a cache from your SSd for your HDD. Basically it just puts the information on the HDD then reads some of it and writes it to a SSD. instead of reading the information from the slow HDD it reads from the fast SSD. Keep in mind it will write to the HDD so that won't improve but your read speeds on recently used data will be much faster. If I didn't explain it right look up Intel Smart Response Technology.

[ProtonovaR87]

You can setup a cache from your SSd for your HDD. Basically it just puts the information on the HDD then reads some of it and writes it to a SSD. instead of reading the information from the slow HDD it reads from the fast SSD. Keep in mind it will write to the HDD so that won't improve but your read speeds on recently used data will be much faster. If I didn't explain it right look up Intel Smart Response Technology.

Oh I didn't understand what you were saying before lol. Yes I know what SRT is and that's what I was leaning towards before making this thread. But they recommended to stick with a pure SSD solution. Thanks for the help though.