Keep old hd or ditch it?

[slow9300]

Building a new rig with a small Intel ssd (120 gig), question is should I keep my old 250 gig s-gate? The seagate is a 7,200 sata 3 gbs, will it slow my system down? Would I benefit from a newer 1 tera on sata 6 gbs?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Building a new rig with a small Intel ssd (120 gig), question is should I keep my old 250 gig s-gate? The seagate is a 7,200 sata 3 gbs, will it slow my system down? Would I benefit from a newer 1 tera on sata 6 gbs?

Sure, many people run a boot SSD, and a storage HDD. It kind of depends on your budget if you want to upgrade to a 1TB, and whether or not the 250GB HDD has SMART errors (reallocated sectors, or other problems).

 

[slow9300]

If I'm not mistaken a normal hdd never maxed out sata II capacity? If that's the case what do I gain my going to sata III with another mechanical drive? Will I know the difference between a 3 gbs vs. A 6 gbs when coupled with an ssd? I'm going from an Amd Sempron dual core 2.2 to an I5-4690k if that matters. Thanks.

 

[VirtualLarry]

There's no noticable difference between SATA2 and SATA6G for a mechanical HDD.

 

[Berliner]

If you don't need more space keep it.

Newer drives should be a little faster, but not due to Sata3.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

I'm running my system with a 120GB ssd and an old 300GB harddrive. Works fine.

With a new harddrive I'd have slightly lower loadtimes in the games I have on there, but new harddrives cost money, you'd be better off just buying a bigger ssd and doing more with that. Steam (and origin) can have multiple libraries now, you can just move your games around if you want faster loadtimes.

 

[corkyg]

You can always use it as a backup drive. It will cost you nothing to keep it.

 

[Puffnstuff]

There's no noticable difference between SATA2 and SATA6G for a mechanical HDD.

I have to disagree with you based upon my own experiences. My spinners sped up noticeably when moved to sata 3 ports including decreased access times and quicker load times for programs.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have to disagree with you based upon my own experiences. My spinners sped up noticeably when moved to sata 3 ports including decreased access times and quicker load times for programs.

You would be the first person that I've ever seen to report that, then. You do realize that 200MB/sec is still no bottleneck for SATA2 ports, right?

Edit: Was this a true A/B comparison? Or did you upgrade platforms, and/or do a fresh install?

 

[Schmide]

You can always use it as a backup drive. It will cost you nothing to keep it.

^ This. The quickest backup you can ever do is an Acronis partition copy. 120gb would be like 7-15min.

Keep it in your system, do this once a week. If the ssd fails, you will be up and running the second it does and ready for the next drive.

 

[wtfcowisown]

Keep it, you never know when you'll need more storage.

 

[Z15CAM]

If it's in good shape use it as a Backup Drive for your OS Images and Personal Data.

 

[futurefields]

Building a new rig with a small Intel ssd (120 gig), question is should I keep my old 250 gig s-gate? The seagate is a 7,200 sata 3 gbs, will it slow my system down? Would I benefit from a newer 1 tera on sata 6 gbs?

I wouldn't bother. You're already running an SSD for OS and a large 3TB drive for data. If you are worried about backups, buy another 3tb seagate, they are less than a hundred bucks.