Is it worth it to run windows on a SSD or even SSD/HDD?

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Running your OS on a SSD makes a older computer feel new. It's really the one upgrade everyone should have done. Using a mechanical drive for bigger programs/ personal data is the way to do it.
 
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A SSD is not just for boot time. A ssd makes everything you do feel quicker.
Even simple web browsing has many small reads and writes, a task that a ssd excels at.
Many things want to go on the "C" drive. 64gb is a minimum, and I do not recommend that. 120gb at least.
Once you have a SSD, you will never build without one again.
 
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I agree. Get a 120-256GB SSD for Windows and your programs. Then 1 or 2 mechanical hard drives for storage. Adding an SSD is the single biggest thing you can do to improve all around speed and responsiveness. Even my relatively old and obsolete 120GB Vertex 2 lets me boot in about 15 seconds. I plan on upgrading to a ~500GB SSD in the next few months just so I can have more room.
 
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Here's my test results....all on same rig:

SSD Boot Time - 15.6 seconds (Mushkin Chronos Deluxe -1st Tier THG rated)
SSHD Boot Time 16.4 Seconds (Seagate Momentus XT 7200rpm)
HD - 21.2 seconds (Barracuda XT 7200 rpm)

Please no on the 64 GB..... I have too many rigs coming bck from peeps who were confident that their 60/64 GB SSDs would be enuff ....and now they want me to clean their C:\ drive for them.

Also if you are a casual windows user.....accustomed to storing everything in "My ...." folders and programs in C:\Program files .... get the SSHD

I had one user complain .... "yeah I get to load windows 6 seconds faster but every time I install something or save a file I gotta spend 20 seconds figuring out where and how to do it". I have been using a separate OS partition for over 20 years so it's old habit and prolly don't bother most here.... but casual windows users sometimes find it too much effort.
 
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I use my hard drives for music, videos, pictures, backups and just general storage. Everything else goes on the SSD. Even my games. I do have to uninstall old games I have finished before installing new ones though as some games can be over 20gb. That is my main reason for upgrading to a larger drive.
 
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Don't forget 20% of an SSD needs to be left as free space. A 120GB drive will format to 111GB. So out of the 111GB you will need to keep 22GB free.
 
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Don't worry I have computer OCD. I organize everything into to little sub folders, I'll have no issues putting things in D:/ Instead of C:/ but what is the smallest SSHD?
 
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What do you want to run faster ? Thatz what should be on it.

The 128 MB Samsung 840 pro is $140....If ya boot ya PC once a day .....

5.6 seconds faster boot time over HD x 365 days x 3 years / (60 secs per min x 60 min per hr) = 1.7 hours it saved ya over 3 years....so just to put in perspective....if ya bought one, ya must consider ya time worth $82 an hour.

Yes, I have put one in all my rigs last few years .... but thatz cause Im a geek, I'm not foolish enuff to try and make a productivity justification for it. Here's another benchmark pairing:

Time between hitting "on" button and Jack logging into windows w/ HD - 45 seconds
Time between hitting "on" button and Jack logging into windows w/ SSD - 45 seconds

The SSD is not faster ? you ask..... I'm sure it is, but I push button, grab coffee and by the time I get back to my desk I'm at log screen :)

Just making the point that yes it's faster but if ya life isn't going to be changed by the experience. Have two lappies here....one with SSD + HD and one with Momentus XT SSHD..... you can't tell which is which w/o a stopwatch.
 
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A user's "My Documents", "My Music", "My Pictures" and "My Videos" and other user specific folders' default locations can be redirected to a different drive and folder location so even the complaint about where to store a file can be eliminated.
 
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I have only used the 750 GB 7200 rpm Momentus XT .... not really considered anything else.

 
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