Performance hit adding hd to two ssd's?

[RememberThatGuy]

Hello
Seeking some advice as to the best option. i currently have a 120gb and a 60gb ssd in my system. I need to expand my storage. I'm not interested in raid. I'd like to add a 4tb(partitioned in half) or two 2tb internal hard drives. Will i see a Performance hit? noticeably Longer boot time etc? I think the ssd caching would be a no go b/c The speed of the platter drive is no matter as it will just be for video/large files... and i keep the ssd. If i was to see a large performance hit i'd go the root of an external 4tb box. so your thoughts?
If there was minimal if really any noticeable performance hit, would you recommend 1 4tb or 2 2tb drives? would be using to two sata2 ports, the 2 sata3 have the ssd's. any other thoughts would be great aswell!!

 

[cuecuemore]

I think you've got it pretty much figured out. If you're already booting off SSD then you shouldn't see a performance hit adding (a) storage drive(s). I would recommend two storage drives if you have the space, because then if you're ever doing I/O intensive stuff and need to be doing huge reads/writes of multiple large files or directories, you can do it twice as fast (not RAIDed, just by virtue of having two physical drives).

 

[RememberThatGuy]

I think you've got it pretty much figured out. If you're already booting off SSD then you shouldn't see a performance hit adding (a) storage drive(s). I would recommend two storage drives if you have the space, because then if you're ever doing I/O intensive stuff and need to be doing huge reads/writes of multiple large files or directories, you can do it twice as fast (not RAIDed, just by virtue of having two physical drives).

Thanks, I am gonna go the internal 2x2tb drives route. Just another question for advice, My only two sata 3 ports are taken by the ssd's. I may lose one to a new build down the road and open that port up. With that said should i consider purchasing sata 3 drives now. Use will be pic,video storage and viewing, no editing and such. I'll be using them on available sata 2 ports. So just for upgradability ? Do I even need sata 3 for movies viewing? I can get an enterprise sata 2 drive around the same cost. Do I even need an enterprise model? Do love my files though.... Thanks for your time!!!

 

[popatim]

mechanical hdd come with sata3 ports but thay still cannot transfer data fast enought to even saturate a sata2 port. You will be fine no matter which interface you put it on. The SSD's on the other hand, need the sata3 ports.

 

[cuecuemore]

Yeah, that^.

 

[RememberThatGuy]

Thanks All !