So, I built my custom PC towards to beginning of this year. Very happy with it, miles better than my old PC that I had built for me. However, I will be upgrading parts of it that really could have been better to start off with at the beginning of next year. One thing I didn't change and dragged over from my old PC was the ancient hard drive. I ran out of money and just couldn't afford anything more than my current 168GB slow-as-hell hard drive. It still works though and Windows 8 Release Preview has made my PC lightening fast. But I'm aware that isn't a fix.
My biggest issue is Photoshop, being a photography enthusiast I built my PC with photoshop and casual gaming in mind. But, photoshop just isn't quick enough. A fellow photographer created a photoshop action designed to stress the computer and give it a huge work load. His PC did it in 37 seconds. Mine? 1:40. I was embarrassed to say the least. I asked him what he thought the issue was and he said he thought my issue was my lack of SSD.
But I digress.
For storing my photographs, I really need something big. I'm thinking 1TB. But, I feel like I need an SSD to really improve Photoshop. My biggest issue with SSDs is the fact that they wear out over time, are more expensive per GB and hard drives just last longer.
My motherboard supports 3Gb/s read and write.
So, do I get a 1TB fast hard drive and accept it won't be as fast as an SSD but will ultimately last longer and cost less or do I buy an expensive SSD to use as a Photoshop scratch disk to see the benefit, deal with the low capacity and get myself a second 1TB hard drive when I can?
Other PC specs:
AMD FX-4100 @ 3.6GHz
Asus M5A78L-M/USB 3
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333Hz
Asus 560 Ti DIRECTCU II @ 930Hz
My biggest issue is Photoshop, being a photography enthusiast I built my PC with photoshop and casual gaming in mind. But, photoshop just isn't quick enough. A fellow photographer created a photoshop action designed to stress the computer and give it a huge work load. His PC did it in 37 seconds. Mine? 1:40. I was embarrassed to say the least. I asked him what he thought the issue was and he said he thought my issue was my lack of SSD.
But I digress.
For storing my photographs, I really need something big. I'm thinking 1TB. But, I feel like I need an SSD to really improve Photoshop. My biggest issue with SSDs is the fact that they wear out over time, are more expensive per GB and hard drives just last longer.
My motherboard supports 3Gb/s read and write.
So, do I get a 1TB fast hard drive and accept it won't be as fast as an SSD but will ultimately last longer and cost less or do I buy an expensive SSD to use as a Photoshop scratch disk to see the benefit, deal with the low capacity and get myself a second 1TB hard drive when I can?
Other PC specs:
AMD FX-4100 @ 3.6GHz
Asus M5A78L-M/USB 3
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333Hz
Asus 560 Ti DIRECTCU II @ 930Hz