Hard Drive Upgrade...

questkid44

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I currently have a 120 Gb WD Caviar from a Dell XPS 410 from many years ago, and i am currently running it in my custom Rig with a 3770k (I know this is ancient too). I need a faster boot time, because my current HDD takes approximately 3 minutes to fully start up the PC... I have a budget of 60$ and i need the fastest, largest SSD that my budget can Buy. I do not have a M.2 slot. Speed is more of a priority...
 
who can you buy from, they will all be roughly the same speed in terms of user experience one might be 1-2s faster to full boot than another but they'll all get you there much much quicker than 3minutes, i'd say less than 60s, so the difference between 55s and 56s is not important.

I think you should be able to get something around the 250GB mark for that money. Samsung Evo's most likely.

or perhaps this; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820173011
 
These boot time results were obtained on the same rig

2 GB 7200 rpm Seagate Hard Drive - 21.2 seconds ($65)
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001

2 GB 7200 rpm Seagate SSHD - 16.5 seconds ($90)
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dx001

250 GB Samsung Pro - 15.6 seconds ($181)
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzv5p256bw

Given the age of your system, I see no advantage to be gained from an SSD versus the SSHD

A Samsung Evo 250 GB will cost ya $80 and shud have a boot time slightly slower than the pro above
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzn5e250bw

A 1 TB Seagate SSHD will cost ya $70 give you 4 times the storage and boot maybe a half second slower.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000dx001


http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5748/seagate-desktop-2tb-sshd-st2000dx001-review/index9.html

With the increasing market penetration of the SSD, a lot of users have now had the chance to upgrade their PCs. Now we all know while SSDs offer massive benefits in terms of performance, they have always lacked in one area - capacity.

A situation like this left most power users using an SSD for their operating system, while still running a secondary mechanical drive for storage and games. A typical setup such as this would allow the OS to load very quickly, while leaving you stunned at how long it took to load a game. With the introduction of the Desktop SSHD, Seagate has again switched up the game, offering a substantial performance boost to those of you in this situation.

Now, if you are one that chooses to use a single drive for your operating system, and have held onto your standard desktop HDD for the benefit of capacity, the Desktop SSHD is calling your name. The 8GB of NAND cache in conjunction with Seagate's application optimized algorithms should offer a tremendous performance boost, and again the more you use, it the faster the drive will get, as it learns how you use your system.

In every case seen here today, the Seagate Desktop SSHD excels, whether it be a synthetic point and click benchmark like HD Tune or ATTO, or even application traces via PCMark 8, the drive just performs.

is note that old 120 GB HD has gotta be on its last legs ... make sure that whatever is on it is backed up.