HHD and SSD

[holmesc]

So I started my computer build with a 2 TB SSD, I was suprised that I was running out of room lately and would like to even out the memory by buying more space, supposidly on an HHD.

I've heard that SSD generally is faster than HDD which is why I wanted my OS and my video games to run on it.

Question is, if I buy a HDD and place all my downloaded videos, pictures, even documents (word/powerpoint/etc) will I see a noticable drop / slowdown rate?

I have a good cpu / gpu so I wonder if it'll be noticeable.

What's your guys experiance on this topic for videos, pictures, documents on HDD?
Hardly noticable or is there a good 1-2 second difference (it adds up over time, and I guess i'm stingy about that)?

 

[Rdslw]

SSD excel at small files (like OS) on HDD you can access ~150 files per second. On ssd we talk ~10000+ This is simplification, but things that you access often keep on ssd, anything else is fine on HDD. Movies, images, docs are ok on HDD

 

[Dunlop0078]

A noticeable drop in what? Overall performance? No, the only stuff hat will be affected is the stuff you put on the HDD. Something like powerpoint or word likely wont launch quite as fast as it would if it was on an SSD but other than that they should work just as they would on the SSD.

 

[holmesc]

A noticeable drop in what? Overall performance? No, the only stuff hat will be affected is the stuff you put on the HDD. Something like powerpoint or word likely wont launch quite as fast as it would if it was on an SSD but other than that they should work just as they would on the SSD.

Excell at speed mainly.

Also are you saying HDD is faster at opening files then SSD (for different types of files like documents / movies / music on mp4 software compared to video games).

I am pretty new at this and I heard people say SSD is the real deal when it came to speed.

 

[Dunlop0078]

A noticeable drop in what? Overall performance? No, the only stuff hat will be affected is the stuff you put on the HDD. Something like powerpoint or word likely wont launch quite as fast as it would if it was on an SSD but other than that they should work just as they would on the SSD.

Excell at speed mainly.

Also are you saying HDD is faster at opening files then SSD (for different types of files like documents / movies / music on mp4 software compared to video games).

I am pretty new at this and I heard people say SSD is the real deal when it came to speed.

Where did I say that? No I am saying the opposite, the SSD is faster than the HDD in every way. However a decent HDD and SSD are both fast enough to quickly open a small file like a picture, programs like word may launch a bit faster on an ssd but I doubt you would notice any meaningful difference in how fast a small file like a picture opens, unless you have to launch an application to view said picture.

An SSD will decrease load times in games, but generally wont do anything else to help a games performance versus an HDD.