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Audigex

Audigex

Audigex

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Hey

I'm currently running my PC on an old 500gb SATA hdd (cost cutting measure) which is quite noisy. It's not all that slow, but I can't put up with leaving it in my rig over the summer; the crackle will drive me mad.

So, I'll be needing to get some hard-drive'age going on, but have a dilemma as to what to do.

Firstly, if I leave this 500gb drive in as a media/document drive, how often will I hear it? The problem is that it crackles on disk access, I'm not worried about failure, backups are second nature, just noise.

If it's not going to be too loud (the 500gb that is), I'm considering getting a 60GB OCZ SSD for nice silent operation. I only use 50gb on my clogged up laptop, so I can survive with 60gb for the time being... but will I be able to easily up this to 120gb with another drive, or will these early SSDs be scarce in 10 months?

Or would I be better off getting a nice 1tb drive now as OS and media, waiting for the SSDs to drop in price and then using it as a media drive later?
 
I would say get the 1TB drive, and my reason being that you can get the 60GB now and im sure theyll still be around in 10 months, but in 10months you wont be wanting one of these youll be wanting one of the ones which is new then, and probably a huge amount better.

Save the SSD cash for a little longer down the line and get the storage now, get a decent 1TB jobby.

Hawker
 
I'm not too bothered about capacity if I did go SSD though, 120gb is plenty for my OS, apps and games (more than twice what I'm using at the moment, and it's very bloated!), could the drives get much faster in the near future though?
 
Mechanical drives are the bottleneck of modern PCs. SSD if you want responsiveness, silence, cool operation.

GB/£ arguments miss the whole point IMO.
 
When you say that your current hd is not that slow, um, yes it is :p
You have just not had an ssd to compare it to, to see the difference. Believe me, your hd is slow, all of them are which is why ssd's are the way to go if you demand speed and performance out of your rig. I bought a 60gb ssd as os/apps/game drive and it was by far the best upgrade ever.
 
Ninja Please! said:
When you say that your current hd is not that slow, um, yes it is :p
You have just not had an ssd to compare it to, to see the difference. Believe me, your hd is slow, all of them are which is why ssd's are the way to go if you demand speed and performance out of your rig. I bought a 60gb ssd as os/apps/game drive and it was by far the best upgrade ever.
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Ninja! He speaks the truth!:)
 
I more meant "not too slow, for a mechanical drive"

I think you make a good point about the £/GB though - and I really don't need TB worth of OS drive. I think I'll need more than 60GB though, so I'll hold out for the 120GB ones to drop a little more, I can't quite justify it yet.

I'll want a TB storage drive anyway, so I'll just grab that for now and run my OS off it, the 500GB can be an in-machine backup for the important bits and the SSD can go in later :-) perfect.
 
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