Use of SSDs

Tsingtao · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:01

First off hello, I'm new to the forum and about to start my fist build for a while (last was a 775 rig).

Since I last built anything SSD drives have become a must for high performance systems. Now with good old fashioned HDDs you split your OS and Apps to seperate drives with data on large slower volumes.

Now is it worth still splitting OS and Apps to individual SSDs or just place on one that is partitioned. Data is going to live on a set of 2TB spin points, 4 of them so far...

So any advice is welcome, I guess the choice is a 60Gb OS drive plus a 120Gb App drive or just 1 big fat SSD.

Ben Cole · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:06

I keep OS and Programs on one SSD.

Banzai_Joe · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:08

Hi, and welcome.
Most would put OS and apps on one single SSD (i certainly do). Can't see any benefit in partitioning at all tbh, not nowadays.
As you've already stated, data on mechanical.

NDJ88 · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:10

I doubt you would notice any difference in performance, so I guess which ever is cheaper?

The larger SSDs are very expensive, so if you really need that much fast storage then two drives might be the better option.

King Damager · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:16

OS, and a couple of games on a 120. I've got a 60 lying around, so if I might put some more games on it at some point if I feel like it. But it's just sitting around to be honest.

Data sits on a large 1TB HDD, which is starting to run out of room as well -.-

kd

Mercutio · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:20

OS on an SSD, everything else on a 4 disk hardware raid 5.
The raid 5 can keep up with the SSD's throughput for level loading etc while the SSD has the nippy response.
Sorted.

jkkc313 · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:29

OS on SSD, and a few games which I play frequently, other than that HDD

Stu @ MSD · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:34

I have all OS and Program data on 1x 240GB SSD, then I have 3x mechanical Velociraptors for movies, music and photos.

Tsingtao · 21 Feb 2012 at 13:16

Thanks for the replies, it seems the answer is to go for one big SSD ( I reckon a 240Gb will do it looking at my current disk stats:

OS ~ 30Gb
Apps ~ 70Gb

could go 120Gb but I like to headroom and I think it covers me going forward.

More questions to come, just waiting for relase of the Ivy Bridge CPUs and the new Intel MBs before I go build. Bought myself a HAF-X to house the lot once I'm ready...

I'm assuming non-RAIDed so best set up a backup silo for OS.