Hdd Or Ssd?

[Fritzer]

some've been looking around on amazon/newegg for an solid state drive. but I mostly see hard disc drives or mechanical drives at the lower budget.... but what's the difference in performance and memory?

 

hdd: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339&cm_re=wd_blue_1tb-_-22-236-339-_-Product

ssd: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500GB-SSD-WDS500G2B0A/dp/B073SBZ8YH/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1527710882&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=wd+blue+ssd&psc=1

 

yes I know there is a difference in price and memory size... but still... whats the performance differences?

[Husky]

Hard Drives are mechanical and are extremely slow by todays standards. Solid State Drives are much faster than a Hard Drive since there are no moving parts.

 

Get an SSD.

 

If you are using the drive for Windows and programs, get an SSD.

If you are using the drive for storing files or need large space on a budget, get a HDD.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Performance difference depends on what your doing, but for most desktop tasks can be 10x lower latency and random io. It makes programs launch much faster, and the system just feels much more snappy. A ssd is a huge differece, get one.

[Fritzer]

4 minutes ago, Husky said:

Hard Drives are mechanical and are extremely slow by todays standards. Solid State Drives are much faster than a Hard Drive since there are no moving parts.

 

Get an SSD.

 

If you are using the drive for Windows and programs, get an SSD.

If you are using the drive for storing files or need large space on a budget, get a HDD.

 

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Performance difference depends on what your doing, but for most desktop tasks can be 10x lower latency and random io. It makes programs launch much faster, and the system just feels much more snappy. A ssd is a huge differece, get one.

oh another question... can I use multiple ssds?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Fritzer said:

 

oh another question... can I use multiple ssds?

yep you can put as many as you can fit in a system. 

[ManosMax13]

2 minutes ago, Fritzer said:

 

oh another question... can I use multiple ssds?

Yes u can u can set one as your boot drive and the rest for storage

[BarackOBatman]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yep you can put as many as you can fit in a system. 

@Fritzer

 

as many as you have SATA ports on your motherboard (unless you want to buy a PCIe SATA controller card..)

 

Assuming you arent talking about PCIe SSDs

[Moaning_Clock]

SSDs are the way to go. In the days of OOP programming and overall lazyness of programmers in regards to performance HDD are going to be a bigger and bigger pain.

[xentropa]

SSDs for programs and games.

HDDs for storing pictures, music, videos and computer backups.

[Fritzer]

So should I get a hdd and a ssd? or just an ssd? because i do some photography but not much...

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Fritzer said:

So should I get a hdd and a ssd? or just an ssd? because i do some photography but not much...

how much space do you need? If you can store it all in 500gb go ssd only.

[Fritzer]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how much space do you need? If you can store it all in 500gb go ssd only.

ok! thanks for your help!

[Tarun10]

2 hours ago, Fritzer said:

ok! thanks for your help!

If you can pay around 120-150$ for a 500GB SSD then go for it the load, boot times and overall responsiveness is so much better.