question on hdd speed if a ssd is present

mrfredo18

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I plan to get a 960 pro 1tb ssd from samsung and i want to have hdd that are for storage like downloads does the speed of the hdd matter if it is just storage while the sdd is boot plus my steam liblary and other games ?
 
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It matters when you are copying data to and from the HDD. Obviously, things only run at the speed of the slowest device in the chain. Here, the HDD.

However...your music playlist does not play any slower if it lives on the HDD. (this is a good thing)

7200 vs 5400? Which specific drive matters at least as much as the RPM.
My music library lives in the NAS box, on a RAID 5 of 5900RPM Seagate Ironwolf drives, accessed across the house LAN.
There is zero difference than if the music files were living inside this PC, on a Samsung 850 EVO.

For stuff you download from...

mazboy

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for goodness sakes before you spend $500 make absolutely certain that your motherboard supports PCIe3x4 NVMe m.2 for boot drive!!!!! And then, yes, if you have the bucks use a big SSD (an 850 Evo is good, the Pro is better...) for your data drive.
 

mrfredo18

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i mean like if i have all my games and my os on the ssd and only have like music on the hdd or just files that dont need ssd speeds is there any point for getting an hdd with 5400 or 7200/higher or should i get something with more space
 

mazboy

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DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!! That board only supports" Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe storage": It says nothing about it being bootable. (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z270-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM/Specification). If this is really, really, the motherboard you want, I would contact MSI directly and get an absolute confirmation from them, or a recommendation for a different motherboard.
 

mrfredo18

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um both on pcpartpicker and on the actual website of the product it says that you can use an m.2 ssd to boot also i have bought the mobo what i was asking is if i have a really good ssd does the speed of the hdd matter for things like music pictures etc is there any point in getting 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm
 

mazboy

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let us know if the motherboard boots, I'm interested, because I could not find where it said that in the specifications.

RE: 7200 is definitely better than 5400, speed really matters. If you can afford it, an SSD is even better (an 850 Evo is good, an 850 Pro is better). Any time the OS/program has to go to the HDD, everything slows down.
 

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It matters when you are copying data to and from the HDD. Obviously, things only run at the speed of the slowest device in the chain. Here, the HDD.

However...your music playlist does not play any slower if it lives on the HDD. (this is a good thing)

7200 vs 5400? Which specific drive matters at least as much as the RPM.
My music library lives in the NAS box, on a RAID 5 of 5900RPM Seagate Ironwolf drives, accessed across the house LAN.
There is zero difference than if the music files were living inside this PC, on a Samsung 850 EVO.

For stuff you download from the interwebs? Your drive connectivity, even a 5400RPM, is much, much faster than the wire from your ISP.

Now...if you wanted to actually play games from that HDD, then yes...a good 7200RPM drive would make a difference.
It all depends on what you are going to use it for.
 
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mrfredo18

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTnCFRBuYw in this video he uses and samsung 960 evo