SSD v HDD ?

[EsaT]

For the first 5 mins after log-in the the OS/App HDD runs 100%

however if you choose fast HDD's

So it's slow until you've always waited for things to get cached.

And compared to SSDs there are no fast HDDs and they're all dog slow and some just little less dog slow.
Only thing in which HDDs can somewhat compete against SATA SSDs is sequential transfers.
In random accesses and any mixed workloads SSDs are on their own planet.

I forgot to mention I had a Crucial M4 die also. In fairness I don't think i'm a typical user, as the SSD's were in workstation type environment and had a lot of write activity. But as said not all failed, still got 5 left that are working fine. I will go back to SSD's just need the higher end SSD's like the Samsung Pro's to come down in price.

If it's write endurance you're worried about, Phison E12 and Toshiba NAND drives beat Samsungs.
For example 1TB 970 Pro's warranty ends at 1200TBW. (if that comes before five years)
Warranty of Corsair MP510/PNY CS3030 lasts well past 1500TBW.

And in 2.5" form factor there are 1TB class drives rated for up to 8+ petabytes...
With well cheaper than Samsung 860 Pro, Micron 5100 PRO having over tripled TBW rating.

 

[koolpc]

Which 500gb SSD? People. Or is it more prudent to go the m.2 route?

 

[Len Dananey]

Which 500gb SSD? People. Or is it more prudent to go the m.2 route?

Any of them on ocuk are better than hd and are noticeably better. I use about 6 or 7 different brands, no difference to me between any of them but I don't use NVME due to needing the full sata ports selection and NVME apparentely cuts that down, no thanks.

 

[Admetos]

And compared to SSDs there are no fast HDDs and they're all dog slow and some just little less dog slow.
Only thing in which HDDs can somewhat compete against SATA SSDs is sequential transfers.
In random accesses and any mixed workloads SSDs are on their own planet.

I'm running SSD caching remember. I just did this benchmark, caching can't help write speed, but random read performance is very high. Also it's worth pointing out that the caching solution is helping all 4 of my HDD's inside the computer (total of 7TB of storage space), however the benchmark is done on my W: partition that contains Visual Studio files.

Someone ask me how I got those 4k read speeds from a HDD, I've used a combination of two established technologies in a way no one has probably ever done before, one of those technologies has been included in every desktop Windows version for over 10 years.