Faster Windows Boot to Desktop

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Hi All,

I'm building a new rig and planning to buy a 1TB WD Caviar Black.

I want to know whether I skills buy an SSD too.. ???

I want to be able to boot into desktop pretty quick without doing any tweaks on the OS...

Would WD Caviar Blank be enough for it or should I get the SSD

Please share suggestions with recommendations

Oh and I would install 2x4GB 1600 MHz G.Skill Sniper DDR3 RAM with Core i5 4590 Processor.





 
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120 GB is enough for Windows, quite a few programs and 2 to 3 games, maybe more, depending on how big they are.
Take the Samsung 850 Evo. Cant go wrong with it.
Hi there MoNeY2TH,

Even though WD Black is a performance oriented drive, you will get significantly shorter OS boot times in case you get a SSD.
Many users get a small SSD just for OS and the heaviest programs/games and a hard drive for all the other stuff.

Let me know in case you have some other questions,
D_Know_WD

 

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You simply dont build PCs without SSD anymore. They give such a huge performance boost, you will never want to go back.

With Ultrafast Boot and an SSD you can effectively boot, from pushing the power button to Windows finished loading, in around 6 seconds, some mainboards even less.
 
Seagate Hybrid drives are a good compromise, if you can still get them in your area. They essentially use SSD caching to speed up boot and load times for the most frequent apps/files you use.

Look at the older Momentus XT drives. They were usually available in 500GB and 750GB with 8GB SLC NAND cache (for long life but still pretty fast). The reason I recommend these is they are much cheaper than SSD + HDD, were 2.5" to fit in most SSD brackets, and also still spun at 7200RPM. Most current hybrid drives are 5900 or 5400.
 

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Hybrid drives are only a solution if you dont have enough money to EVER buy a SSD (which simply cant be the case anymore) or you dont have enough money for a huge SSD and only have space for one drive in your laptop.
Their performance is still a lot worse than an SSD.
 

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I take it that SSDs are like Super Saiyan God and HDD are like Raditz or Nappa or Krillin....lol...

So.... Which is best and what capacity.... I would need it to boot OS and related programs... Nothing fancy...

Also, Caviar Blue vs Black ??? What's the difference and is it big...
 

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I take it that SSDs are like Super Saiyan God and HDD are like Raditz or Nappa or Krillin....lol...

So.... Which is best and what capacity.... I would need it to boot OS and relatws
 


I used to be of that mindset, but here I am with a 180GB SSD that's near full after 3+ years of use with minimal programs installed on it, now I consider 240GB and up for OS/boot. As an aside, I'm currently moving away from using platter drives altogether, I like SSD's (I may have said that already)
 


I really can't say offhand since I hadn't noticed until I was doing the Windows 10 thing (from Win 7) and it hasn't been a high priority for me to check since my system is running fine. I do have 30GB free currently (that's not too bad IMO, I had a lot less which the upgrade seems to have freed). I have two "essential" games (RC flight sims) but they're about 5GB each and Steam, almost everything else on there is either related to hardware or benchmarking/diagnostics. Outside of pdf files, no media is stored there. I will admit that my SSD could use a sweeping but I also consider myself to be more conscience of what I download and where (and how) it gets installed than most.
 

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Got it.....

So, Do you think a 120GB SSD is enough for a PC for just OS and related Software (like Office, Adobe reader etc)

Also, I see Kingston in SSD too... how are they compared to Samsung ???
 


Yes, or 180. We've been running a 180 GB Intel SSD in a laptop for 2+ years now, and as long as you keep pictures/music elsewhere, it's plenty of space to serve as a main system drive. Run a disk cleanup every now and then, and set the system restore partition size to ~5%.

The Kingston V300 drives are - comparatively - pretty slow. I think the Crucial BX100 is a great entry-level price point drive.
 

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120 GB is enough for Windows, quite a few programs and 2 to 3 games, maybe more, depending on how big they are.
Take the Samsung 850 Evo. Cant go wrong with it.
 
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