I just had a quick question about upgrading to an SSD drive. Right now I have two SATA II 7200RPM drives... A 250GB system drive -- this is where I install actual games and software (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc). And then a 1TB drive that's just storage -- music, video, and my actual design/job files (Photoshop files, websites, etc). It's about half full.
Now I just picked up a Kingston HyperX 3K SSD (120GB). If I'm running a SATA II board and most of my accessed files are on a 7200RPM SATA drive (files I'm actually loading in Photoshop, websites I'm working on in Dreamweaver, etc), am I still going to see the huge increase in speed an SSD is supposed to provide? I'll be using the two drives regularly -- the SSD as a system drive, and opening games like BF3 and software like Photoshop from the SSD... but constantly saving to the SATA II drive (and/or copying files to that drive after downloading or saving to the SSD). I just won't be able to save everything to SSD or afford a bigger one than this.
Just want to make sure the $100 I dropped on this SSD was worth it before I install it.
Now I just picked up a Kingston HyperX 3K SSD (120GB). If I'm running a SATA II board and most of my accessed files are on a 7200RPM SATA drive (files I'm actually loading in Photoshop, websites I'm working on in Dreamweaver, etc), am I still going to see the huge increase in speed an SSD is supposed to provide? I'll be using the two drives regularly -- the SSD as a system drive, and opening games like BF3 and software like Photoshop from the SSD... but constantly saving to the SATA II drive (and/or copying files to that drive after downloading or saving to the SSD). I just won't be able to save everything to SSD or afford a bigger one than this.
Just want to make sure the $100 I dropped on this SSD was worth it before I install it.
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