SSD & Mechanical combination

[will_s]

Thinking about putting the OS ( Win7) on a SSD ( 128gig) and using a Samsung F3 1T hard drive for data and games etc. Couple of questions

1/ Is that the best way to take advantage of the speed of a SSD drive or would using it with a mechanical drive negate the SSD drives speed ?

2/What model SSD is the best value but gives good performance ?

3/ Anything to avoid ?

Am going to upgrade my mobo to a SATA3 / USB3 AM3 motherboard this year and include the SSD as part of my upgrade

 

[Beautiful_Life]

Put your songs, movies and backups on your HDD

Put your games, programs, pictures and other files on your SSD. Otherwise, your SSD is just being wasted to boot Windows faster.

 

[billyb0b]

i have almost exactly what you are proposing.

120gb ocz agility ssd and two samsung f3's 1tb in RAID 1

i have games, apps, and win7 on the SSD. photos, music, movies, porn on the f3's

 

[will_s]

I guess games on the SSD as it will be used for gaming quite a lot but everything else on f3

btw: any advantage in 64 bit over 32 bit with SSD?

 

[A5]

I guess games on the SSD as it will be used for gaming quite a lot but everything else on f3

btw: any advantage in 64 bit over 32 bit with SSD?

Not for the SSD, but there's absolutely no reason to not use 64-bit unless you can't (aka running on Atom).

 

[ViviTheMage]

If I ever reinstall WoW, i'll be putting it on my mechanical drive (fucker is 15GB or so) ...otherwise everything STEAM is on my SSD, and every other game actually.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I keep all of my games on a mechanical HDD since I only have an 80GB SSD in my desktop, and my games folder alone is 160GB.

My SSD has the OS and applications (Office, Photoshop, etc.) Nothing else.

 

[Yuriman]

If I ever reinstall WoW, i'll be putting it on my mechanical drive (fucker is 15GB or so) ...otherwise everything STEAM is on my SSD, and every other game actually.

I've read that WoW benefits more than any other game from an SSD, due to its large amount of small texture loads.


I have 2x 80's in raid, keep my OS + apps + games on the SSDs, all large files such as movies and such go on the WD Green. Aside from TF2, the largest file on my SSDs is 200MB.

 

[Craig234]

I've read that WoW benefits more than any other game from an SSD, due to its large amount of small texture loads.


I have 2x 80's in raid, keep my OS + apps + games on the SSDs, all large files such as movies and such go on the WD Green. Aside from TF2, the largest file on my SSDs is 200MB.

Yes, I'm planning to put Win 7 and WoW on the 80gb SSD as the top two priorities.

 

[will_s]

With USB3 / SATA 3 mobos now hitting the market would it be best to wait for a SSD with a SATA 3 interface..............

ie. Corsair P128 128GB 2.5" MLC SSD (Solid State Disk Drive), SATA II, 128MB Cache, Speed 220/200

Now I know it will work on a SATA 3 but would you get better performance with a SATA 3 interface on the SSD ?

Also is that SSD ( Corsair ) any good ?

 

[Hacp]

If I ever reinstall WoW, i'll be putting it on my mechanical drive (fucker is 15GB or so) ...otherwise everything STEAM is on my SSD, and every other game actually.

You can just move it. You don't need to reinstall.