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Multiple HDs vs one SSD

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Berek Halfhand

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I'm not referring to RAID setups here, but what I've been accustomed to for years now; one OS HDD and other HDDs for various media to split up the work load when programs are run simultaneously.

I was considering a small SSD for my OS drive and then a larger one for intensive games and other larger programs... but then I thought about the reason for an SSD in the first place. Is my "spread it across multiple drives" an outdated concept now?
 
A small SSD for the OS drive and a larger HDD for data and even some applications is becoming more popular. It's a good plan if you can't afford or justify the cost of a larger SSD or SSD/RAID-0.
 
I was considering a small SSD for my OS drive and then a larger one for intensive games and other larger programs... but then I thought about the reason for an SSD in the first place. Is my "spread it across multiple drives" an outdated concept now?
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If you can fit your other programs onto the SSD that would be best. Games come last as far as programs go (assuming you use them all equally - obviously the more you use it the more benefit you'll get if it's on SSD); they don't benefit as much from other programs, and are too fricking huge now (compared to the size of a reasonably priced SSD) to be worth it.
 
Agreed, that all makes sense, but the question was whether or not you really need separate drives, not for storage purposes but for performance.

For example, whenever I copy something from one separate drive to another, and try to do something else with one of those drives, the system is a crawl. I assume SSDs can do better in this respect.

The new Intel 25nm drives are coming out in a few months with capacities as high as 600GB. Even a 300GB would be well sufficient for OS, apps, and most games... if a single SSDs is fine with multitasking in mind.
 
Berek Halfhand said:
Agreed, that all makes sense, but the question was whether or not you really need separate drives, not for storage purposes but for performance.

For example, whenever I copy something from one separate drive to another, and try to do something else with one of those drives, the system is a crawl. I assume SSDs can do better in this respect.

The new Intel 25nm drives are coming out in a few months with capacities as high as 600GB. Even a 300GB would be well sufficient for OS, apps, and most games... if a single SSDs is fine with multitasking in mind.
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If you have your OS on a SSD and are then copying items from one HD to another in the same system you will not feel this Crawl. Even if you are copying from an HD to the SSD you will still not notice the crawl because this is what SSD's excel at doing multiple things at once.

Where as HD's are better suited to 1 task at a time.

So to answer the primary question you are still going to have to seperate the drives with an SSD in the system but it won't be for the same reasons it will for space issues as you won't be able to fit everything on the SSD nor should you if its only data you access rarely.
 
Agreed, that all makes sense, but the question was whether or not you really need separate drives, not for storage purposes but for performance.

For example, whenever I copy something from one separate drive to another, and try to do something else with one of those drives, the system is a crawl. I assume SSDs can do better in this respect.

The new Intel 25nm drives are coming out in a few months with capacities as high as 600GB. Even a 300GB would be well sufficient for OS, apps, and most games... if a single SSDs is fine with multitasking in mind.
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To answer your question, no. In terms of program use an SSD is better than any number of mechanical hard drives. The SSD will still slow down if you push it with enough random writes for long enough, but it's not such a slow-down as HDDs, and to be frank, I doubt you'll ever get to that point. It takes a lot of doing for a desktop. So if you ever get that 600GB G3 SSD, then you should put everything onto it, and just use a mechanical hard drive for media storage.
 
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