SSD/HDD?

[skipper847]

Hi. Thinking of getting a new Hard Drive or SSD. I need both at some point as my HDD making a humming sound which I no its the HDD as I unplugged it and the noise went away. I was thinking what is nest. Having SSD for operating system and HDD for games like I got now. Or. Buy 1 500GB SSD and have OS and games on both?.

SSD now is crucial 120GB and a rubbish old Seagate 500GB.

The SSD is size is 10cm by 7CM on a asus h61m-k motherboard. I think my max speed is 3gb as some are 6gb. if you no what I mean for this board.

 

[ED209]

what setup you use depends on your budget.

I have 2 x 250GB SSDs as a 500GB drive at the time was still far too much.

OS on one 250GB SSD and the other for games.

if your budget can get you a 500GB SSD then go for it but if you have a tight budget get a 250GB SSD for os and programs and then a HDD for games\storage.

I have both my SSDs using sata 2 as sata 3 on my board is terrible and I noticed a improvement in the PC performance.

I like the above setup I currently use as if I need to re install my OS I can, nothing on there I cant re download or need to backup and once windows is re installed I just re create my steam shortcut and all my games are all ready to go (all stored on second SSD)

 

[bledd]

This is what I do..

128GB SSD for Windows
128GB SSD for Steam (could do with a 256+ drive)
750GB HDD 2.5" laptop sized drive for other data, downloads etc

 

[Credo]

My new build (as per sig) is 256GB 850 Pro SSD for OS and Adobe Lightroom catalogue, 1 TB HDD for photographs and 1TB HDD for My Documents and Data. My Documents is it's own drive as is Data. I like having stuff on discreet drives, easy for admin and backups.

I'd like to move to 100% SSD when I can afford it.