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What H/drive would perform better ? & what is faster?

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cirocorbino

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Hi i have a
Corsair Force Series 80GB SSD; 280MB/s, Read 270MB/s Write; SandForce controller; SATA II connectivity; TRIM support, set up as C: at 3.0Gb/S
but would this
Hitachi 3TB Deskstar 7K3000 7200rpm HDD - SATA III 6Gb/s, 64MB Cache be a better C: drive?,would it be faster? apart that is is 3TB aposed to 80 Gig
the mother is Asus Rampage III Extreme SATA 6.0Gb/s,
could any one shed some light on the matter? thanks
 
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You're asking if a mechanical hard drive is faster than an SSD ?
no. That hitachi will barely saturate 1/3rd of sata 2, whereas the SSD will nearly fully saturate it.
Advertising/making the mechanical drives as sata 3 is for the most part moot, they can't use all that bandwidth cept for maybe a few bursts off the cache (which would account for a very low % of the overall usage). Not to mention access times being orders of magnitude greater on SSDs ...

welcome to the forums 🙂
 
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Hello cirocorbino, and welcome to AnandTech Forums.

The SSD will be faster.

The SSD is like a Ford Mustang GT with a 150MPH speedometer. It will go that fast. The HDD is like a Toyota Prius with a 300MPH speedometer. It won't go anywhere near that fast, and the Mustang GT will still be faster.
 
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