1tb caviar black or 1tb seagate barracuda and 30gb ssd

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thanossapiens

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hello guys
i was thinking about buying a caviar black for the "amazing" performance and 5yr warranty but with the same money i can buy a barracuda and a used 30gb vertex 2(only for win7 and firefox) for 10 euros more... or i will go a bit out of budget and buy a 60gb ssd
i will use the hdd for games and movies
what do you think?
p.s. this might be a stupid question but will i be able to go directly into the game when the pc boots or will i have to wait for the windows to search the hdd and have less benefit from the ssd then?
thanks:)
 
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USAFRet

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A 30 GB drive (be it SSD or spinning) is too small for a current Windows install. It will 'fit', but in use it will struggle.

For your second question....yes, you could put that in the startup. But that's kind of silly unless you never, ever do anything else with that machine.
Check email? Come here to Tom's? Google? Everything else would be subservient to the game.
 
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whoa thats a LOT of money lol
id rather buy a couple of games than a 128gb ssd
so the 30gb ssd is out of the question
i could buy a seagate barracuda and a 60gb ssd but thats 35eur more than the black and 10 more than a 2tb drive:(
 
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i kinda dont understand this
yes sometimes immediately after the startup i go to google but many times i go to a game
you mean that the hdd will slow me down..?
hmm
 
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I'm not saying it will slow things down. But having a particular game as the default startup application is, IMHO, kinda silly.

"but will i be able to go directly into the game when the pc boots or will i have to wait for the windows to search the hdd and have less benefit from the ssd then?"

Put a shortcut on the desktop.
Start the PC
Click on the shortcut
Game starts

As said...you *could* put it in the startup menu, but then if you want to do *anything* else, you'd have to get out of the game first.

Get an SSD.
But not a used, 30gb, Vertex 2. That is pretty a useless drive.
 
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thanossapiens

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no no,i meant if i will have to wait for the hdd to "load" first before
it is usable while i have got into windows from the ssd
well,anyways, i usually open my pc once a day so IMO the ssd is not worth it
so, is the seagate MUCH slower than the wd black?
but the black also has 5yr warranty so i beter take the black then
 
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With a sufficient size SSD (128gb) everything loads faster.

I have Office 2013 installed on the secondary SSD. Opening a moderately complex Excel file is like lightning. The file is open almost before my finger stops moving from the click.

May not be worth it for you, but definitely worth it for me.
 
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you mean the things that are stored in the ssd,eh?
what do u think about using it as cache?
will 64gb be good enough?
 
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