Hello all, I'l start by saying that Im upgrading from my 9950 processor to an 1155 socket i7 (couldnt wait for ivy lol) So In november I was lucky enough to get a 1 tb seagate hd for 45 quid (before they increased in price) and have planned to use this as my primary drive, however the more I ponder on it the more I wonder whether or not I should go for an ssd, of course Ive a few problems regarding this, main one of course is prices, I could really only afford a 120gb drive at the most atm, planning to use this as the win7 drive plus it comes with enough space for few extra applications.
With the above setup it I've read that it can be very tedious when installing any other software and having to direct it to the HDD as opposed to the SSD ( I do download a lot of software just to see how it runs and what it does lol ), and to be honest I can be a lazy git lol
The other option I've read about would to be to get a 60 gb SSD and use it to cache the 1tb?
In my current set build I've only got a 500 gb 5400 rpm drive, so moving to a 7200 drive I should see a performance boost doing this alone let alone is I were to cache it with a 60gb or use a 120 SSD?
I'm just not 100% on if I should shell out for an ssd even perhaps just make do with my HDD and perhaps later in the year buy an SSD and do a clean install then?
Any opinions?
With the above setup it I've read that it can be very tedious when installing any other software and having to direct it to the HDD as opposed to the SSD ( I do download a lot of software just to see how it runs and what it does lol ), and to be honest I can be a lazy git lol
The other option I've read about would to be to get a 60 gb SSD and use it to cache the 1tb?
In my current set build I've only got a 500 gb 5400 rpm drive, so moving to a 7200 drive I should see a performance boost doing this alone let alone is I were to cache it with a 60gb or use a 120 SSD?
I'm just not 100% on if I should shell out for an ssd even perhaps just make do with my HDD and perhaps later in the year buy an SSD and do a clean install then?
Any opinions?