hdd or ssd which one first

[ant7191]

I wanna get a hdd and a ssd right now I can afford one or the other and get one later. My currently hard drive is 580 gb wd blue and its getting full. Should I buy the 1tb hard drive now and get a 120gb ssd later or get the ssd first and the hdd later?

 

[JobCreator]

I would get the SSD first so that you can start the process of migrating programs onto it. The storage drive can always be added, but there's way more work that goes into upgrading to an SSD i.e. installing Windows, updating drivers, re-installing programs, etc.

 

[boosted1g]

Depends ultimately on what the 580 GB drive is full of.

If it is full of programs then get the 1tb drive as you will need a 500gb SSD drive
If it is full of files then get an SSD drive and reinstall windows/programs to it, then once you get everything good on your SSD drive you can remount the hard drive and you can delete the windows and program files folders off the drive to get more room.

 

[ant7191]

Depends ultimately on what the 580 GB drive is full of.

If it is full of programs then get the 1tb drive as you will need a 500gb SSD drive
If it is full of files then get an SSD drive and reinstall windows/programs to it, then once you get everything good on your SSD drive you can remount the hard drive and you can delete the windows and program files folders off the drive to get more room.

its mainly media files filling it up music and movies and some games

 

[ant7191]

For the hdd I was looking at either a 1tb wd black or a 3 tb wd green which would be better?

 

[ant7191]

Depends ultimately on what the 580 GB drive is full of.

If it is full of programs then get the 1tb drive as you will need a 500gb SSD drive
If it is full of files then get an SSD drive and reinstall windows/programs to it, then once you get everything good on your SSD drive you can remount the hard drive and you can delete the windows and program files folders off the drive to get more room.

For the hdd I was looking at either a 1tb wd black or a 3 tb wd green which would be better?

For the hdd I was looking at either a 1tb wd black or a 3 tb wd green which would be better?

 

[giantbucket]

get a large HDD (2TB or larger, no need for Black, a normal Seagate is fine), move all media files to it and keep the 500 for OS+programs, and start shrinking the drive partition down to 235G over the next few weeks so that you can later on just grab an image and restore it onto a new 240/256G SSD.

then, once your OS is moved to the SSD, use the 500G to keep file history on it, keep a system image, and funnel your downloads folder to it.

 

[boosted1g]

For storing media a green series is just fine.

If doing a clean install of windows I would get the SSD drive first, and then latter get a western digital green or blue of the biggest drive you can.
Clean install is the preferred method to avoid any possibility of a bad copy when cloning the drive

If you do want to clone your existing drive then you should buy a HDD now so that way you can move your media files off your current drive so that you can get it shrunk down to the size of the ssd you are going to buy.

As far as SSDs go: Samsung 850 is preferred, or go crucial for budget.
If it is cheaper then the crucial mx100, then that is exactly what it is - cheap. FYI if you see good reviews/benchmarks on Kingston v300 that is because those scores where taken on the first version of the drive before Kingston pulled a bait-and-switch and put really bad memory chips in them that get 1/3 the performance.