- Feb 7, 2013
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Hello Everyone, I am trying to figure out whether I should upgrade my SSD or my Motherboard. Right now, I only have the money to upgrade one of these options. My current SSD is almost out of space. I run CCleaner to help, but since I am running heavy recording studio mixing and mastering programs on my computer. I have tried to delete files and trim down junk as much as possible, but I have less than 15GB of C Drive space available on my SSD.
The second problem is that I am out of SATA spots on my motherboard to add anything. I have another SSD sitting around at home that I could add, but I am not sure if that would help.
My ideas are that I can buy a Samsung Evo 850 drive that is 256GB for $99 at Microcenter. The only problem would be that I can't use the old SSD and that I would have to transfer over everything from the old one since I have no SATA spots on my motherboard. The new drive would basically have to replace the old one in this scenario. Honestly, I really don't want to have to move or copy all of my stuff onto a second hard drive if I don't have to.
The second option that I have is to buy an AsRock Extreme4 motherboard for $130. This would give me more SATA slots. I could used the second SSD I own with it and I could even have additional slots for more hardware such as a second GPU if I later desire to. The problem with this scenario is that it might not fix my problem in that a second SSD might not work the same as having one bigger SSD since only one of them can be the C drive and only one can be the boot drive that stores the programs. I could be wrong here, but having a second SSD might not really take some of the pressure off of my first SSD.
A basic run down of my computer system is as follows:
Fractal R4 Define Case
Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H Motherboard
i7 3770K Motherboard
MSI Twin Frozr 680 GTX
PPC 1,000W Power Supply
32GB of RAM
2 3TB Hard Drives
1 128GB Toshiba Q-Series SSD
So, The question is, Which of these ideas would yield me the most benefit? Are there any other cost effective ideas that could help me resolve this issue as well? Thanks.
The second problem is that I am out of SATA spots on my motherboard to add anything. I have another SSD sitting around at home that I could add, but I am not sure if that would help.
My ideas are that I can buy a Samsung Evo 850 drive that is 256GB for $99 at Microcenter. The only problem would be that I can't use the old SSD and that I would have to transfer over everything from the old one since I have no SATA spots on my motherboard. The new drive would basically have to replace the old one in this scenario. Honestly, I really don't want to have to move or copy all of my stuff onto a second hard drive if I don't have to.
The second option that I have is to buy an AsRock Extreme4 motherboard for $130. This would give me more SATA slots. I could used the second SSD I own with it and I could even have additional slots for more hardware such as a second GPU if I later desire to. The problem with this scenario is that it might not fix my problem in that a second SSD might not work the same as having one bigger SSD since only one of them can be the C drive and only one can be the boot drive that stores the programs. I could be wrong here, but having a second SSD might not really take some of the pressure off of my first SSD.
A basic run down of my computer system is as follows:
Fractal R4 Define Case
Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H Motherboard
i7 3770K Motherboard
MSI Twin Frozr 680 GTX
PPC 1,000W Power Supply
32GB of RAM
2 3TB Hard Drives
1 128GB Toshiba Q-Series SSD
So, The question is, Which of these ideas would yield me the most benefit? Are there any other cost effective ideas that could help me resolve this issue as well? Thanks.
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