Diegoooooo :
Hello,
I'm going to build my first computer but im not sure if i should use a SSD in this build. I have a 1tb WD blue. I saw this SSD: Sandisk SSD Plus - 120GB for €50. But im not sure if this SSD will give me anything over the WD blue.
Thanks!
- Diego
If you are expecting your life to change because of an SSD, you will be disappointed. SSD's are great for benchmarks and bragging rights but little else. I have (2) Samsung 256 Gb 840pros, (2) 2 TB Seagate SSHDs and (1) old 7200 rpm HD in our test box. Here's the results of in house testing:
Boot with 5 year old HD - 21.2 seconds
Boot with SSHD - 16.5 seconds
Boot with Samsung Pro SSD - 15.6 seconds
The other thing .... 120 GB is kind small.... Windows footprint might start out < 50 GB but within 6 months, after windows updates, program installs (even when installed to HD, "common files" get stored on C:\), the typical user is well over 80 GB. Your 120 GB SSD only has 111 GB of file storage space and leaving the recommended 15% free, you're down to just 95GB of space. So, aside from boot time, you will perhaps see a change in performance for whatever fits on that 15GB.
An t TB SSHD scores about 2.5 times batter in the THG gaming Benchmark as the WD Blue. The model THG tested is an older one, but the SSHD is still 1.5 times faster than the WD Black.. Again, on this test rig, we switched the boot drives from HD, SSHD and SSD and had several people use the machine over time, with no word on when the change took place. 1 out of 5 noticed that the HD was slower, ) outta 5 noticed the difference between the SSD and SSHD. That last test was duplicated on two identical laptops...one with SSD and one with SSHD, no one was able to tell the two apart over a 2 year period, other than the fact that the one with the 120 GB SSD had to be "cleaned" whenever it popped up a C:\ Drive is getting full message.
Again, it's not that the SSDs aren't much faster... it's just that the speed of humans doesn't change. The speed of the technology is orders of magnitude above our ability to react to, or even notice it. Using an SSD for rendering a large CAD file, editing a movie and yes, you will be amazed at the difference. Opening your 120 page Year End report that you are editing at work, office productivity is not going to change if it takes 0.2 or 1.0 second cause after clicking file open to open the file, your eyes are now on the handwritten edits that you are about to retype. When starting a game, if you stare at the screen counting "one mississippi, two mississippi ... " you might notice a difference, but "acting normally", looking Ventrillo app, putting on headphones, adjusting monitor, chair or whatever else .... whatever your "start gaming" ritual is, the ritual will usually make the load time irrelevant.
If ya got the moolah, by all means ... get a SSD, but I wouldn't bother with less than 240 / 256 GB these days. If budget restricted on a new build, the SSHD makes infinitely more sense. And, you won't have to worry about how to manage what goes where and how to keep the 111 GD (5 GB w/ 15% free) SSD from filling up.
€75.99 WD Blue -
http://de.pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd20ezrz
€102.66 Seagate SSHD -
http://de.pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dx001
€54.83 WD Blue 1 TB -
http://de.pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ezex
€77.67Seagate 1 TB -
http://de.pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000dx001
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5748/seagate-desktop-2tb-sshd-st2000dx001-review/index9.html
A situation like this left most power users using an SSD for their operating system, while still running a secondary mechanical drive for storage and games. A typical setup such as this would allow the OS to load very quickly, while leaving you stunned at how long it took to load a game. With the introduction of the Desktop SSHD, Seagate has again switched up the game, offering a substantial performance boost to those of you in this situation.
Now, if you are one that chooses to use a single drive for your operating system, and have held onto your standard desktop HDD for the benefit of capacity, the Desktop SSHD is calling your name. The 8GB of NAND cache in conjunction with Seagate's application optimized algorithms should offer a tremendous performance boost, and again the more you use, it the faster the drive will get, as it learns how you use your system.
In every case seen here today, the Seagate Desktop SSHD excels, whether it be a synthetic point and click benchmark like HD Tune or ATTO, or even application traces via PCMark 8, the drive just performs.
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