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Which solid state hard drive should I purchase?

Hard Drive or Solid State Drive advise?

  • I'm looking at which to purchase for my new computer - the intention is to eventually get booth with the OS and programs on the SSD and media-based files (photos, films, movies) on the standard Hard Drive. But for the initial build I'll only be buying one or the other for now. 2TB SATA 6Gb/s (7200RPM) 32MB Cache vs. 256GB 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Just based on that alone they appear to be as quick as each other to me - 6 Gb a second, is 6 Gb a second. Other than the memory size they transfer data at the same rate. I do a lot of video editing and animation (so lots of rendering) and could do with some advise on how one of them could benefit over the other. Any help would be appreciated! So simply will there be much difference in performance as the TB is a lot cheaper and a lot bigger?

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    doesn't matter if they are both 6Gb/s transfer rate, SSDs can copy memory faster, and run it better.

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The SSD is more likely to break after like 2 years, I've experienced it before, and they didn't bring a solution to that yet, the compartments in the SSD gets damaged really fast. I should go with the HDD since it has not only more disk space, but is also more resisstent against damaging.

I would personally go with the SSD, but that's only if 256GB is big enough for your video editing needs on a daily basis. If you can't buy both at the same time you could also buy a cheaper 3Gb/s standard HDD as a storage as you will be using the SSD primarily and just save your stuff on the other one for long term.

6 Gb/s is MAX SATA speed, not drive speed 6 Gb/s = 750 MB/s MAX SATA speed most hard drives will never exceed 130 MB/s SSDs are up to 550 MB/s for the new high end ones You should get whatever is more useful. If you are like me and have a couple hundred GB of media, then you should go with the 2 TB hard drive. If you have only some media and some games, then the SSD would be a better buy EDIT: To elaborate. 95% of hard drives won't cap at 1.5 Gb/s and NONE of them will cap a 3 Gb/s. Anything higher for hard drives is a marketing gimmick

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