Looking to build..

[JarydC33]

I am looking to build the following setup: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pQPU
however, I was curiou as to why there were two hard drives on there? I know that one is a SSD and one is a HDD, but why are they both on there? Im not entirely sure of the difference between them except that the SSDs are more expensive. Any help?

 

[o1die]

SSD's are good boot devices; you may want to wait for a better price. I won't use my old conventional hardrive any more except as an emergency spare. I enjoy the extra speed and virtual silence of my ssd. Mine is only 32 gb, but with hibernation and the security protection features disabled, I still have over 15 gb of space left with windows 7 64 bit and all the security updates loaded.

 

[Nicklovn]

The SSD is best at "finding" data saved on it. That's why it's a good boot drive. It gets all your Win 7 files as well as personal files up faster. And it also helps with game loading menus if you complain about those kinds of things 😉

The HDD is essential, though, if you're downloading a bunch of movies and music etc.

Oh, and if you have a lot of games you may want them on your HDD since you'll run out of space quick on the SSD.

 

[JarydC33]

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