HDD or SSD

ScBHavoK · 17 Jan 2018 at 10:16

Trying to keep costs down on an older machine (phenom xII 955) and cant decide between standard hd or an ssd drive. Is the ssd going to be that much quicker?

The two drives i'm currently looking at are..

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £82.99
1 x Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £40.99

Total: £132.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)

What do you think?

rhysduck · 17 Jan 2018 at 10:17

Yes

Go SSD.

RJC · 17 Jan 2018 at 10:23

d_brennen · 17 Jan 2018 at 10:29

SSD always when considering OS drive. It drives me mad to use a machine with a spinning disk these days

brendy · 17 Jan 2018 at 10:30

SSD all day long. Its the single biggest noticeable upgrade you can have.

Shocky-FM · 17 Jan 2018 at 11:57

SSD for internal drives, maybe treat yourself to large external HDD at some point, I have a 4TB drive connected to my network which most files eventually get dumped on if not uploaded.

SC0TTRS · 17 Jan 2018 at 11:59

brendy said:
SSD all day long. Its the single biggest noticeable upgrade you can have.

+1

ScBHavoK · 17 Jan 2018 at 12:02

Ok thought as much but thanks for clarification. Would you say the ssd mentioned is the best for the money? Was also looking at a silicon power smaller drive for £52ish
But guess you get what you pay for?

hornetstinger · 17 Jan 2018 at 12:07

Determine how big SSD you need for a OS. I'm using 64GB with Windows 7 64, OS and progs only, and have 28-28GB free. Work out best value SSD per GB, what size you need now and also enough for next OS as you update.

Randomface74 · 17 Jan 2018 at 13:03

It's night and day, get an SSD.

foster grant · 17 Jan 2018 at 13:08

ddoubleep · 17 Jan 2018 at 13:09

SSD. Don't overthink it!

P1Fanatic · 17 Jan 2018 at 21:37

Its a no brainer. SSD vs HDD is like Audi R8 V10 Plus vs a 1.0 Fiesta.

ScBHavoK · 18 Jan 2018 at 09:32

hornetstinger said:
Determine how big SSD you need for a OS. I'm using 64GB with Windows 7 64, OS and progs only, and have 28-28GB free. Work out best value SSD per GB, what size you need now and also enough for next OS as you update.

Probably similar to yourself windows and a few progs, that samsung drive seems to have a lot of good reviews shame they dont do a 120gb version

ScBHavoK · 18 Jan 2018 at 09:35

P1Fanatic said:
Its a no brainer. SSD vs HDD is like Audi R8 V10 Plus vs a 1.0 Fiesta.

The fiesta is probably more reliable

but know what you mean.

ScBHavoK · 19 Jan 2018 at 15:05

Anybody have one of these seems a good price? and western digital got a good rep

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x WD Green 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS120G1G0A)= £59.99

Total: £68.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)

tamzzy · 19 Jan 2018 at 20:00

what are you going to use the pc for?
reason i ask is that if you're gonna store lots of files and/or programs then a 250gb ssd would be better.
if it's literally just for office and ~~red~~youtube then the cheapest 120gb ssd would suffice

ExoMale · 8 Mar 2018 at 01:38

WD make some good drives, I have couple greens and a blue in the 3.5 size, find them to be the best I’ve owned and I own seagate drives too.

Green is the more power/energy efficient one, so be less taxing, but you can’t go wrong with either.

Ssd will be quicker, but those sata 3 6gb/s 7200rpm drives are still pretty quick for what they are and have plenty of storage if you need it

JasonM · 8 Mar 2018 at 02:53

ExoMale said:
WD make some good drives, I have couple greens and a blue in the 3.5 size, find them to be the best I’ve owned and I own seagate drives too.

The best HDD's are the Western Digital RE's (new name is WD Gold) and there totally fine to use as a desktop drives.

thewanted · 8 Mar 2018 at 05:06

What about trying one of these cheap SSDs?

EDIT: Argh, didn't realise that the OP lasted updated the thread in January.