New PC - STC vs SSD&HDD

Freddie1980 · 31 Jul 2011 at 02:10

I'm building my Dad a new PC to replace a crappy P4 John Prescott, 1Gb DDR2 setup. The hardware I have in my basket is as follows -

Gigabyte Z68A-D3 Intel Z68
Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge)
Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Intel 320 Series 40GB (25nm)

Of course this will all be running Windows 7.

Now the motherboard supports STC technology I was wondering whether I should setup the SSD as a support drive acting as large cache or weather I should just use the SSD to run the OS and use the hard drive for storage? If I do go down the STC would I be better of getting this 30Gb OCZ Vertex drive instead?

blitzyuk · 31 Jul 2011 at 03:23

how about putting this 500GB Hybrid drive in instead of that spinpoint f3 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-233-SE&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1893

You will still have the space and the extra speed.

Also i would get an SSD for the OS prob go for a bit bigger than a 30GB though try the Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-008-CR&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1668 as there seems to be a lot of people having problems with OCZ Vertex drives at the moment.

Ive just got one of the Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB drives as i was told to steer clear of the OCZ's at the minute.
should be getting it monday.

Philtor · 31 Jul 2011 at 04:31

Freddie1980 said:
I'm building my Dad a new PC to replace a crappy P4 John Prescott, 1Gb DDR2 setup. The hardware I have in my basket is as follows -

Gigabyte Z68A-D3 Intel Z68
Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge)
Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Intel 320 Series 40GB (25nm)

Of course this will all be running Windows 7.

Now the motherboard supports STC technology I was wondering weather I should setup the SSD as a support drive acting as large cache or weather I should just use the SSD to run the OS and use the hard drive for storage? If I do go down the STC would I be better of getting this 30Gb OCZ Vertex drive instead?

Buy a better CPU. By the way it's whether

Freddie1980 · 31 Jul 2011 at 08:56

philtorrens said:
Buy a better CPU. By the way it's whether

Whoops, serves me right for posting at 2 in the morning. The cpu is fine for Dad's needs, he only wants it for light office work.