ssd vs mechanical hdd?

Question

im starting a new pc build and i need help making a decision on which hard drive setup to use. im getting a motherboard with z68 chipset which allows me to use smart response technology and dedicate an ssd to cache and use it in tandem with a large capacity hdd. the pro i see here is that i don't have to micromanage my hdd volumes because there will only be one. the drawback is that i don't get %100 of the ssd Performance.

OR do i get two ssd and run them in raid 0 and have a separate mech. hdd and put up with having to micromanage where items are saved (due to ssd space limits)

Answer 1

Run Raid 0 with two SSD's. This will be your best performance (although not cheapest) option.

Answer 2

>OR do i get two ssd and run them in raid 0



Raid 0 has no fault tolerance. Which also means that if one of your SSD dies, you will lose the data on the other SSD as well since the data is striped and there is no parity in this type of RAID.



A lot of people say that SSD's are more reliable than HDD's, but the reality is opposite. Google up SSD failure and you'll see this article: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html



If you are going with a RAID0 with 2 SSD's, you need to make sure you backup often so you don't lose any important stuff when either of your SSD's fail.



RAID 0 is unfortunately the only way you can span data across both drives, but if you can afford it you can always buy a 256 GB SSD, it's costly but it's better than RAID0.

Answer 3

a million, this could count on the penchronic, your constrained by the relationship velocity, USB 2.0 you will no longer get extra beneficial than 35mb is the ultimate project, extra like 5-10mb flow speeds. 2, your at an advantage going with a HDD, an SSD gets sluggish in the adventure that your employing it to function and take away particularly a lot of data all of the time. i could use the SSD for my majorchronic, and get a HDD aswell for data that your going to be including and transgering to the flashchronic.

Answer 4

SSD drive=

More expensive, less storage.

EXTREMELY quick and reliable



Mech drive=

Less expensive, more storage

slower, less reliable.



Put all the main windows files and important data/progarms in to a low capacity SSD.

Store everything else into a regular mechanical hard drive.