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Currently I have this piece of shit 200gb HDD:

(It's soon gonna die as it's 9-10 years old and performance decreased recently)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144416

 

 

This is an HDD I'd like to buy (2TB - 7200RPM 64mb cache)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834

 

OR

 

This is an SSD I'd like to buy:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104484

 

 

I don't know which one to buy. The 2TB HDD or the 240GB SSD?

I also heard if I write too much to SSD it can easily die. 

 

Please help me :D

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SSD for sure unless you absolutely NEED more storage than that.

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Currently I have this piece of shit 200gb HDD:

(It's soon gonna die as it's 9-10 years old and performance decreased recently)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144416

 

 

This is an HDD I'd like to buy (2TB - 7200RPM 64mb cache)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834

 

OR

 

This is an SSD I'd like to buy:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104484

 

 

I don't know which one to buy. The 2TB HDD or the 240GB SSD?

I also heard if I write too much to SSD it can easily die. 

 

Please help me :D

A 256 GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD are 2 very different things.

Do you need the space? Do you have another 1  TB HDD?

 

Also, I think the too much writing on a SSD thing is a myth... I have never seen an experiment on it to prove it.

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It's pretty much impossible to kill ssd by writing to it for personal use, it would take you years. Get SSD.

 

A 256 GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD are 2 very different things.

Do you need the space? Do you have another 1  TB HDD?

 

Also, I think the too much writing on a SSD thing is a myth... I have never seen an experiment on it to prove it.

it's not a myth, it's how it is, just ssd's are still too good to die from it. only in massive workloads that can be a problem.

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I only have this 10 year old HDD. I don't have SSD yet.

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It's pretty much impossible to kill ssd by writing to it for personal use, it would take you years. Get SSD.

 
it's not a myth, it's how it is, just ssd's are still too good to die from it. only in massive workloads that can be a problem.

 

Massive workloads isn't something a consumer would do right?

Under what workload would a SSD fail?

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Massive workloads isn't something a consumer would do right?

Under what workload would a SSD fail?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand

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I only have this 10 year old HDD. I don't have SSD yet.

I would recommend the SSD -- you are already only using 200GB of space, so it will all fit on the drive.

 

SSDs are much more reliable than hard drives, and you will notice a performance benefit even on your older computer. It will feel a lot faster than it actually is.

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