so is it still recommended to use an ssd for an os apps? or could I get away with using a non-ssd for that stuff?
Printable View
Yeah plenty of PC dudes recommend ssd for primary drive because of the increased read/write speeds. Also reliability has been an additional reason for using them, but they can fail just like any other drive...even when quite new.
No reason why you can't use a larger capacity sata drive though, just depends what your priorities are really.
I believe Inferno had a SSD fail on him when it was fairly new.
By that I mean you don't necessarily go for the largest HDD you can afford, you go for the sizes that are good value for capacity. As I said you only really need 2 internal HDDs max, you can use externals for everything else and always upgrade the second internal later on when it's worth doing.
I'm sure somebody obsessed with racial purity will come along and poo-poo what I posted. Because all of my hardware is potato anyway.
:yawn:
I imagine price is a concern from what you're saying Grouch. You could always grab a small sata drive to start or even just yank one out of a laptop until you save up for more impressive hardware.
price is only a concern because I really don't need some uber gaming rig.
a laptop drive is an option since I have this one that's only a year old and 500gb building a desktop means I really have no use for this old laptop other than maybe as a backup but with the screen dying out on it it'd only serve as a desktop(which is what I'm using it for right now)