I've been in the market for upgrading my computer lately, and have been focusing on looking for hard drives. One friend of mine tells me to go for a 128 GB Solid state drive, for boot and load times are faster. Another friend of mine tells me to go for a 1TB standard hard drive, for it will hold more space, and run things slightly slower, but decently enough. As of now, I have a standard DDR 2 500GB hard drive that runs at a speed of 7200RPM. Also, as a side-note, my motherboard is a SATA I, whilst the SSD is SATA III.
Could anyone highlight the pros and cons of each one, and which one I might be better off with? If you need specs, please say so below. Thanks!
It all depends on disc speed, if you're upgrading from a 5x00 RPM HDD to a 7200, then you'll notice a boost. HDDs aren't fast enough to saturate SATA-2 lines yet, AFAIK.
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Erm, your HDD is not over DDR-anything. It's over, as you said, SATA1. At that speed, an SSD will do very little. And, if you're not running out of storage space, there is no point to get a new HDD. Stick with what you have.
Erm, your HDD is not over DDR-anything. It's over, as you said, SATA1. At that speed, an SSD will do very little. And, if you're not running out of storage space, there is no point to get a new HDD. Stick with what you have.
We don't know if he uses SATA I or SATA II, we haven't officially confirmed that, but yes the ssd would be bottle necked on SATA 1.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2
CPU
AMD Phenom X4 9750 31 °C
Agena 65nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 395MHz (6-6-6-18)
Motherboard
MSI Aspen (Socket AM2 ) 101 °C
Graphics
SyncMaster (1280x800@60Hz)
512MB GeForce 9500 GS (MSI) 54 °C
Hard Drives
698GB AMD 1+0 RAID Ready SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
Optical Drives
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7201S6 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
and on the hard drive page:
Hard Drives
AMD 1+0 RAID Ready SCSI Disk Device
Manufacturer Unknown manufacturer
Interface RAID
Capacity 698GB
Real size 749,999,947,776 bytes
RAID Type Software RAID
S.M.A.R.T
S.M.A.R.T not supported
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number ECF826EA
Size 685GB
Used Space 297GB (44%)
Free Space 388GB (56%)
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter D:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 9CA46A86
Size 13.4GB
Used Space 11.6GB (87%)
Free Space 1.84GB (13%)
Funny, doesn't say anything about the SATA speed, although looking at your other specs your systems on the old side, getting an ssd might no be the best choice, save some money up and build a new system, use an ssd as the boot and an hdd for storage/programs...
Funny, doesn't say anything about the SATA speed, although looking at your other specs your systems on the old side, getting an ssd might no be the best choice, save some money up and build a new system, use an ssd as the boot and an hdd for storage/programs...
You mean like, new motherboard and everything? Unfortunately, my budget for computer upgrades isn't so great right now.
You mean like, new motherboard and everything? Unfortunately, my budget for computer upgrades isn't so great right now.
Well the system is kind of showing its age, the gpu and cpu are a bit old now and adding an ssd won't improve performance other than quick boots, save up $800-$1200 and ask the people here to select some parts for a new build, for now keep it the same, getting a new hard drive would be waste of money.
I certainly would get an SSD if you only have a SATA-1 motherboard. If the rest of the hardware ware more up to date, I would suggest the best of both worlds and getting both. Currently I have a 90GB SSD and a 640GB 7200rpm HDD. Wonderful combination.
Wait, does that MOBO run at over 100oC? Not sure about MOBO temps but that seems way too high...
I thought most Motherboard Manufacters enable a setting in the BIOS, that automatically shuts down the computer at 90C to avoid damaging the components.
I thought most Motherboard Manufacters enable a setting in the BIOS, that automatically shuts down the computer at 90C to avoid damaging the components.
Newer mobos do that, not sure about older ones though....
I certainly would get an SSD if you only have a SATA-1 motherboard. If the rest of the hardware ware more up to date, I would suggest the best of both worlds and getting both. Currently I have a 90GB SSD and a 640GB 7200rpm HDD. Wonderful combination.
an ssd would be bottle necked most likely, no point...
Could anyone highlight the pros and cons of each one, and which one I might be better off with? If you need specs, please say so below. Thanks!
It all depends on disc speed, if you're upgrading from a 5x00 RPM HDD to a 7200, then you'll notice a boost. HDDs aren't fast enough to saturate SATA-2 lines yet, AFAIK.
It surprises me how many people on this forum can't read benchmarks.
http://www.piriform.com/speccy download, install and let it scan and detect all the information, post a screenshot of the mainpage...
Also get a screenshot of the hard drive page.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2
CPU
AMD Phenom X4 9750 31 °C
Agena 65nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 395MHz (6-6-6-18)
Motherboard
MSI Aspen (Socket AM2 ) 101 °C
Graphics
SyncMaster (1280x800@60Hz)
512MB GeForce 9500 GS (MSI) 54 °C
Hard Drives
698GB AMD 1+0 RAID Ready SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
Optical Drives
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7201S6 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
and on the hard drive page:
Hard Drives
AMD 1+0 RAID Ready SCSI Disk Device
Manufacturer Unknown manufacturer
Interface RAID
Capacity 698GB
Real size 749,999,947,776 bytes
RAID Type Software RAID
S.M.A.R.T
S.M.A.R.T not supported
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number ECF826EA
Size 685GB
Used Space 297GB (44%)
Free Space 388GB (56%)
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter D:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 9CA46A86
Size 13.4GB
Used Space 11.6GB (87%)
Free Space 1.84GB (13%)
I thought most Motherboard Manufacters enable a setting in the BIOS, that automatically shuts down the computer at 90C to avoid damaging the components.
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