Big capacity drive not sutible to be system drive ?

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chung1998122

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I recently bought my rig with the Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB Hard drive
Coz im running out of money so i didnt bought the SSD
Then my friend told me that im silly to use the 2TB to be the sytem drive and he said that the bigger the storage capacity the worse to be the system drive , is that true ? and Why ?
 
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the other problem is that if you're smart enough to do a system image, it's horrible to use a giant drive cuz you need a giant drive to restore it onto. if you use 3rd-party tools to move your system from one drive to another, you might be OK to move from a 2T to a 128G SSD, but the native Win7/Win8 system image will expect you to restore to a 2T, even if most of it is blank space. and - by definition - I always prefer the native way of doing things, cuz it's the most likely to do it right. because it's native.
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No, you would like the system drive to be as fast as possible so that when you boot up it becomes ready/usable as quick as possible. Newer large drives are pretty fast because of the perpendicular recording.

The SSD will make your system feel much faster though. No HDD out there will be as fast as a good SSD.
 
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the other problem is that if you're smart enough to do a system image, it's horrible to use a giant drive cuz you need a giant drive to restore it onto. if you use 3rd-party tools to move your system from one drive to another, you might be OK to move from a 2T to a 128G SSD, but the native Win7/Win8 system image will expect you to restore to a 2T, even if most of it is blank space. and - by definition - I always prefer the native way of doing things, cuz it's the most likely to do it right. because it's native.
 
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