SSD upgrade/HDD addition?

[triesleast]

I'm currently running a hitachi Hts547564A9E384 with SATA/300 5400RPM 8MB buffer and an average latency of 5.5 ms as my main and only memory storage in my newest rig. My motherboard is a MSI 970 Gaming, I'm running a AMD R9 380 4GB graphics card, 16 GB Ram across 4 4GB sticks, and my cpu is an AMD FX 4350 quad core 4.2GHz. Should I invest in changing my SSD out or getting a secondary HDD? Or will there be little to no change regarding performance and disk transfer rate?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, triesleast.

In terms of performance, regarding the OS - yes, there should be a significantly noticeable difference if you're running it off of an SSD. If you're looking for a system boost, an SSD is the way to go. However, If you transfer data from your SSD to your HDD, the transfer speed will be limited to the speed of the HDD (as it won't be able to write as fast as the SSD).
If you consider gaming as well when you're talking about performance - the drive doesn't really play a main role. Basically the faster your drive is, the faster your system will be able to load the game and go through in-game loading screens. But you won't find any noticeable difference while you're gaming, no matter how fast your drive is.

So the bottom line is this - in my opinion your system can benefit a lot from an SSD and I'd suggest that you get one for your Windows (and maybe some games if you have enough storage capacity) and use the HDD as a secondary storage drive for everything else.

Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD