#35 - Question/Answer: Solid State Drive vs. SATA HDD

Q. What's best, Solid State Drive or SATA HDD?

A. Solid State Drives has their advantages but they are really expensive. Watch video for more...

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Science & Technology

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• computer
• electronics

[MsHojat]

Careful guys! I can bet anything that this guy's opinion is different about SSDs now. What he said was 2 years ago! Since then, some real epic Solid State drives have been released, while their prices have all fallen as well.

Anyone who is not going for bottom budget (under 800-900$) PC should at least get one good 32GB SSD to install operating system and most commonly used applications. Finding a good SSD can be tricky right now though, so make sure you do research! Cheapest ones are quite bad.

[FURYTheCount]

30 GB SSD as your System Drive

1 TB HDD as your data drive

[cruellordsoth]

can i get a SSD with a window?

[MsHojat]

@Delta9Fly If you haven't gotten an answer to your question yet — SSD is by far better performance.

However, if you're talking reliability/longevity, HDD MAY have the advantage, depending who you buy from. SOME SSDs may fail early, so you need to pay an EXTRA pretty penny to ensure you get an SSD which has proven longevity.

OCZ for instance, has unfortunately had a bad reputation of getting many premature failures (or at least fast ones).

[MsHojat]

@iamthewizard2 You're talking about W7 x64. Just because one OS takes up a lot of space doesn't mean all do. 32-bit W7/Vista, or even WinXP (granted it has problems namely for gaming) are all considerably less space. Another example would be to use Linux on an SSD.

Lastly, I am using Win 7 64 bit on my 32GB SSD (because of games/performance). I have it tweaked so that it's taking up only 6-7GB of space though.

That said, sure 64GB works too, especially now that they're cheaper.

[iamthewizard2]

@MsHojat 32GIG SSD for an OS drive...yeah right...just watch that 32 gig get fully consumed by your OS files after installation. a 64bit version of windows 7 already takes up 20GIG but it grows up to 20GIG larger from all the temporary files etc that the system needs. then there's the importance of having system restore as well ...heck by then your drive will have consumed 50GIG+. if your buying an SSD dont bother about anything less than 60GIG

[zedd56]

Ran out of room in my previous comment but if anyone is interested or confused, the Vertex 3 series SSDs are made by OCZ.

They are incredibly fast and will nearly cap your drive controller's maximum speed. Don't bother getting a Vertex 3 if you plan to put it in a system with a Sata3 board as the performance will be nearly halved! That is, unless you plan to put the drive into a different system later. However, this also may not be a wise investment as SSD prices are constantly dropping.

[zedd56]

SSD prices are starting to level out and in future, HDDs will most likely be eliminated.

Your motherboard or CPU can become a bottleneck with faster drives. Have a decent CPU and a board with a Sata6 controller.

Benefits of a faster drive are shorter load times (including system boot) and faster transfer speeds. A faster drive does not affect gaming performance, only load times.

Install your OS and games on an SSD and store media on a larger HDD.

I personally recommend the Vertex 3 series.

[Delta9Fly]

256GB SSD vs. 750GB SATA HDD? Pricing is no issue, just looking for preformance.

[cedarsliban]

very nicely simplified.... thank you

[wowjunky07]

PLEASE LOOK AND NOTICE THAT THIS VIDEO IS FROM 2008. SO THAT SHOULD ANWSER YOUR QUESTIONS.

[Hi675445]

@Christobanistan there are slower u mite not notes it