Memory vs Hard Drive

Go for the 1TB HDD and more memory option. Modern HDDs are plenty fast, even the non-Velociraptor ones. The additional memory will also help with system performance for gaming and multi-tasking. If you truly need lightening fast response times for your OS, then you need to go the SSD route.

Good luck!

It won't make much difference if you go for the velocirator instead from a good 7200rpm, bechmark transfer rates don't mean anything as to system snappiness it all depends on the access times.

You'd be much better with a small ssd for OS and apps and 500gb HDD for storage with 4gb ram.

velociraptor 300gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $170

F3 500gb + 64gb vertex 2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... --- $175

That'll give day/ night difference in performance even from a 10000rmp HDD.

To give you an idea, a single fast HDD scores 5.9 on the WEI(win experience index), and when you add a second HDD it doubles the transfer rates on the benchmarks but WEI is still 5.9, but if you put a SSD that gets about the same MB/s it goes up to 7.5+, all because it takes access times as the most important thing.

ok now my head is about to explode...lol


I can have both SSD and a HDD on the same computer?
What is considered a small SSD? a 30GB SSD is about the same price as a 1 TB HDD 7200 rpm. Would that be considered a small SSD?

1) Windows-7 will take about 13gb. A 40gb is workable, but to hold a few games, 64gb would be better.
Add a cheap storage drive if you need more room.

2) 4gb is good for gaming, but if you do lots of multitasking, then get more. Ram is cheap.

thanks for this info...i think i will go with both

if i were building this how would i get the computer to download the os on the ssd and not the hdd? would that be in the bios set up?

then does everything else get downloaded on to the HDD?

Best answer selected by seller417.

By downloaded I guess you mean installed.

In the windows installation program it will ask which drive you want it to be installed in, just choose the SSD from there

Thank you for all your answers...there were a couple 'best answers', but i could only select one.

Frankly, having 10 PCs with SSD's {128GB SSD/OS + Apps + RAID 1/1TB HDD/Data} 60GB is also too small, I would look at Crucial, OCZ or Corsair SSDs with 120~128GB capacities and a 1TB/7200 RPM/32~64MB Cache HDD. The Raptor drives aren't that fast and a big waste of $.

You really want an SSD with enough capacity to support BOTH OS + Apps.

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