HDD vs. SSD

[crazysteve240]

I have an SSD that can do 130MB/s read, and approx. 80MB/s write, my hard drive can do 120MB/s both read and write. Is it beneficial to use my SSD as the boot drive just because it has a slightly faster read? Or is the hard drive the better option?

[pelark]

What SSD do you have?

 

[MVPernula]

Well alright, so that's a pretty "meh" SSD.

 

In terms of performance you're not gaining alot by using it, mostly losing actually.

What's good about having an SSD instead?

Well:

• No noise
• Generally smaller
• Not as fragile

Again, since your HDD is pretty much just as good I'd go with the one that has the most space.

Make it a fight of the gigabytes.

[crazysteve240]

4 minutes ago, pelark said:

What SSD do you have?

 

Super Talent 64 GB SSD.

[crazysteve240]

1 minute ago, MVPernula said:

Well alright, so that's a pretty "meh" SSD.

 

In terms of performance you're not gaining alot by using it, mostly losing actually.

What's good about having an SSD instead?

Well:

• No noise
• Generally smaller
• Not as fragile

Again, since your HDD is pretty much just as good I'd go with the one that has the most space.

Make it a fight of the gigabytes.

I think I'll just use it as a boot disk and store all my programs on it.

[MVPernula]

1 minute ago, crazysteve240 said:

I think I'll just use it as a boot disk and store all my programs on it.

OS takes about 30GB or a bit more, you'll not get alot onto it.

Your call however.

[KenjiUmino]

13 minutes ago, crazysteve240 said:

I have an SSD that can do 130MB/s read, and approx. 80MB/s write, my hard drive can do 120MB/s both read and write. Is it beneficial to use my SSD as the boot drive just because it has a slightly faster read? Or is the hard drive the better option?

that 120 MB/s are sequential reads, i assume - meaning larger files at once.

 

in that scenario, there is not much benefit in having a SSD.

 

where SSDs truly shine is randomly accessing small files - and that is what your OS does most of the time. i predict that even this SSD will probably make your os feel "snappier"

 

put the OS and small programs you use the most on your SSD but leave your videos, music, documents, games and all that stuff on the HDD. 

[rn8686]

SSD is going to be faster, therefore obviously better as a boot drive. Just use your HDD for mass storage for all your other programs. 

[DocSwag]

Yes, you're looking at sequentials, not randoms, which matter more. SSDs will crush any hdd in randoms and latency.

[crazysteve240]

On 5/20/2017 at 9:14 AM, DocSwag said:

Yes, you're looking at sequentials, not randoms, which matter more. SSDs will crush any hdd in randoms and latency.

The SSD is always at 100% usage on idle now. In the Task Manager, it is at 100% usage when reading or writing at a speed of less than 1 MB/s. I forgot to mention that I have my drive configuration set to IDE in my BIOS. Will there be a benefit of changing it to AHCI?  Because I already have a bunch of programs and my OS installed on the SSD, and Windows doesn't like it when I change it to AHCI so I will have to do a fresh install.

[DocSwag]

7 minutes ago, crazysteve240 said:

The SSD is always at 100% usage on idle now. In the Task Manager, it is at 100% usage when reading or writing at a speed of less than 1 MB/s. I forgot to mention that I have my drive configuration set to IDE in my BIOS. Will there be a benefit of changing it to AHCI?  Because I already have a bunch of programs and my OS installed on the SSD, and Windows doesn't like it when I change it to AHCI so I will have to do a fresh install.

Not too sure on the ahci part, ahci is definitely better but I'm not sure if it'll make a difference or not @M.Yurizaki

[Mira Yurizaki]

Disk drive usage just means how much is in its queue, not how much it's actually doing. You should use Resource Manager to figure out what might be pinging it.