Would you ever be able to go back to a hard drive from a SSD

[bamerx98]

So recently with losing power with this hole big ice storm thingy, I had to go back to a notebook as a desktop is not very practical to be running off a generator. So with the switch back to the note book, I went right away down to my rig and ripped out the SSD and stuck it in this old note book, and my god the improvement it made in performance is crazy, I really remember this computer slugging down when I was running more then one application and would experience programs timing out a lot due to the older 640Gb 5400rpm drive in it. Keep in mind the notebook isn't too low end. Here are the specs i5 430m 4Gb ram 5470m Video card with 512mb of dedicated vram and my Adata SX900. So this is what raises my question would you ever be able to go back to a hard drive if you've been running a SSD for a while now. Personally I think I'd get mad over applications taking for ever to load. 

[iruixos]

Not likely, unless the hard drive in question is cached by an SSD.

[CwGoh]

I can muddle along with a well partitioned and defragmented fast 7200 RPM hard drive. But let's face it - most consumers don't do maintenance on their hard drives. 

SSDs are a whole different world though.

[superducky94]

I'm not sure, I just switched. The start up time is fantastic, but other than that I can live with hard drive times (I have several in my system).

[Morpheus]

I'm not sure, I just switched. The start up time is fantastic, but other than that I can live with hard drive times (I have several in my system).

i just switched too but i don't think i can go back. it just makes things soo much easier

[Adamz946]

Couldn't go back to a standard hard drive, something that has an SSD cache yes. I upgraded my laptop to an SSHD after having an SSD in my main rig for ages as it felt so slow at loading in comparison, knowing something CAN be as fast as my SSD means I will always want one

[bamerx98]

Couldn't go back to a standard hard drive, something that has an SSD cache yes. I upgraded my laptop to an SSHD after having an SSD in my main rig for ages as it felt so slow at loading in comparison, knowing something CAN be as fast as my SSD means I will always want one

That's basically how I felt, I booted this old note book and I was greeted by a long boot then an extremely long login and wait on everything to load up before doing anything. I almost instantly shut down the PC went down and tore my SDD out of the back of my computer. Then threw it in the note book and BAM FAST as hell I also needed to get my Adobe software on here so I could do some editing with the power out the more power to me. 

[Mooshi]

I like bloated programs opening ~2 seconds vs waiting a century.

[xXmjzXx]

If my SSD where to die right now i would have to go back to a hard drive. If i had the money no. I would buy a brand new SSD.

[Ja Krispie]

For OS booting, no. I will however use a HDD for my steam library and other data.

[bamerx98]

For OS booting, no. I will however use a HDD for my steam library and other data.

I only use it for my steam games, but even recently I just started putting games on my SSD. After putting BF4 on my SSD I dont think I would ever be able to go back just because of how fast that game loads in to MP matches is 100% worth getting a SSD just for games hopefully in the summer I can pick up a 240Gb just for my primary games that I play a lot seriously with BF4 having close to 1 - 2 minute load time its well worth it to me to be in the game with the chopper and capturing that first flag for my team. Now not ever game need a SSD but I think with the games getting around 20-40 Gbs for a game load time are just going to get larger

[Ja Krispie]

I only use it for my steam games, but even recently I just started putting games on my SSD. After putting BF4 on my SSD I dont think I would ever be able to go back just because of how fast that game loads in to MP matches is 100% worth getting a SSD just for games hopefully in the summer I can pick up a 240Gb just for my primary games that I play a lot seriously with BF4 having close to 1 - 2 minute load time its well worth it to me to be in the game with the chopper and capturing that first flag for my team. Now not ever game need a SSD but I think with the games getting around 20-40 Gbs for a game load time are just going to get larger

Yeah I can understand that. I actually just bought a 2TB HDD for more game storage, and a 120GB Samsung EVO SSD for certain games like BF4. I thought I'd give a try with a dedicated SSD for my favorite games.

[bamerx98]

Yeah I can understand that. I actually just bought a 2TB HDD for more game storage, and a 120GB Samsung EVO SSD for certain games like BF4. I thought I'd give a try with a dedicated SSD for my favorite games.

Its a great option, I've been very happy with the extremely zappy load times  

[2sysel2]

For OS booting, no. I will however use a HDD for my steam library and other data.

Well for my Steam library I use cached hdd and it makes a big difference