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HDD vs SSD

Parranoia

Insane Member
I would prefer SSD over an HDD if they were the same price xD
An SSD is worth getting to at least throw your OS on it at the very least. You could get a second one, or one a bit larger and put a few games/applications on it.

If you haven't ever had an SSD, I recommend everybody ready this to try and get one :p boot times are crazy fast
 

Skrbx

BETA Tester
Well everybody will pick SSD for the same price of HDD.... But ssd for me is too expensive. For the price of one 500GB SSD you can get two 1TB HDD put em in raid 0, and you will have almost that good performance some cash in pocket and 500GB more space.
 

Xcynic

Epic Member
I have on SSD disk, 120GB where I store my os and random programs only. It loads faster than HDD but as everyone is pointing out a 1TB SSD is expensive as hell, while a HDD isn't.
 

Skrbx

BETA Tester
Exactly what i am trying to say. You can get two 1TB HDD and run them in RAID 0. The write speed will be boosted up to the 2x HDD max speed. So lets say we have: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (1 TB, 7200 rpm, SATA 6 Gbit/s), for the price of 115.94$ (Offer from AMAZON: Click)

We will have max write speed of 205.73x2 = 411.46MB/s.
Tortal spend will be 230.88$
Total Memory will be 1TB.

So its easy to see that we have Double amount of memory for almost two times less money and almost same performance (the difference will be 5~15 seconds particular operation).
Ofc ther is no way to make HDD configuration which can get even close to SSD's IOPS number but for home use this does not matter at all.
 

Foereaper

Founder
Or you could be smart and get a hybrid :) Hybrids are around the same price ranges as ordinary HDD's, but much faster because of the flash cache
 

Parranoia

Insane Member
Exactly what i am trying to say. You can get two 1TB HDD and run them in RAID 0. The write speed will be boosted up to the 2x HDD max speed. So lets say we have: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (1 TB, 7200 rpm, SATA 6 Gbit/s), for the price of 115.94$ (Offer from AMAZON: Click)

We will have max write speed of 205.73x2 = 411.46MB/s.
Tortal spend will be 230.88$
Total Memory will be 1TB.

So its easy to see that we have Double amount of memory for almost two times less money and almost same performance (the difference will be 5~15 seconds particular operation).
Ofc ther is no way to make HDD configuration which can get even close to SSD's IOPS number but for home use this does not matter at all.

But you don't get the read and access speed that SSDs provide, which tremendously cuts down loading times.
 

Skrbx

BETA Tester
Or you could be smart and get a hybrid :) Hybrids are around the same price ranges as ordinary HDD's, but much faster because of the flash cache

Not mean to be rude but this is best way to waste your money. Hybrids are little bit faster, in same time much more expensive than normal hdd and far from ssd performance. The hybrid solutions are noting more than good marketing trick, which is why i don't add em to the topic.
 

Foereaper

Founder
Not mean to be rude but this is best way to waste your money. Hybrids are little bit faster, in same time much more expensive than normal hdd and far from ssd performance. The hybrid solutions are noting more than good marketing trick, which is why i don't add em to the topic.

I'm not sure if you've actually tried them out or not, but talking from experience they are quite a lot faster than a normal hdd, the issue with hybrids are that they aren't faster from the get go, they use an algorithm to determine what you access more frequently and cache it on the flash memory. At least here, they're literally the same price range as a normal hdd at the same capacity, so it's definitely something I'd recommend if you want a high capacity hdd with an extra performance boost.
 

Skrbx

BETA Tester
If i had to be honest I've never used hybrid, all i know for them is the test results from different sites. The last I've read, show results like: 30 sec for SSD, 58 for Hybrid and 1min and 15 secs for HDD. Which for me is not a big difference.
 
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