SSD vs HDD Confusion

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steveb531

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I understand how they both work and the benefits of SSD over HDD, but what i cant understand is how people have their rigs set up. What i would have expected is a hard disk drive to be replaced with a Solid State Drive with equal or greater capacity than their old HDD. But this is not the case in my experience. People seem to buy a lower capacity SSD stand alone or do the same and retain their HDD. To replace one drive with a (although superior) alternative with less capacity seems counter productive, or am i missing something? Other than the price of an SSD is there a reason people do this? Along with another of other componants im thinking of upgrading my 1tb HDD to a 1tb SSD. Is there a downside to this other than price?
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Exactly. And if you play games where you do not frequently load levels, like most FPS, you can get by on just a HDD. The only time a SSD would be better for gaming is if you have a lot of complicated loading screens, maybe a game like fallout or skyrim would be more enjoyable because there would be less load time between going in and out of buildings, caves, and areas. But if you play a game like BF4 its just 1 map loaded at the beginning of the game so there is not really anything loading after the launch of the level.

Operating system will boot faster on SSD and so will certain programs. Uninstalling things is also faster on SSD. As others have mentioned it can be difficult to recover data on an SSD if it goes bad, I also believe...
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Exactly. And if you play games where you do not frequently load levels, like most FPS, you can get by on just a HDD. The only time a SSD would be better for gaming is if you have a lot of complicated loading screens, maybe a game like fallout or skyrim would be more enjoyable because there would be less load time between going in and out of buildings, caves, and areas. But if you play a game like BF4 its just 1 map loaded at the beginning of the game so there is not really anything loading after the launch of the level.

Operating system will boot faster on SSD and so will certain programs. Uninstalling things is also faster on SSD. As others have mentioned it can be difficult to recover data on an SSD if it goes bad, I also believe that once you erase something on an SSD it is for the most part unrecoverable because unlike a HDD it immediately writes over that area of the drive. On an HDD you can recover data off of it so long as the part the data was written on has not been written over by new data.
 
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