New HDD for PC
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I am going to get custom built PC and was wondering about the HDD. Does it make sense to install 2.5 inch hybrid disk - Seagate Momentus XT i.e?? Is anyone using similar configuration? At the moment I find SSD too expensive so I don't have then under consideration.
- adumbratesly0
I have this drive mounted as my boot drive in a custom box I assembled this past March... quite frankly the $$ I poured into RAM (24 GB's) was a better investment - no distinguishable difference in boot sequence speed... I'd opt for a quick, 7200 (or even the new 10,000) RPM, terrabyte drive for now; I agree SSD pricing is way too expensive for the return on your investment. Then there is the nasty little habit of Premiere always wanting to write temp files to your boot drive... a 120GB SSD, as an example, will fill up, fast!
- out of interest.. have you had any luck setting up a ram drive? if so.. how?detritus
- not aware of anything under Windows 7 - I believe there are 3rd party solutions available...adumbratesly
- GeorgesII0
got a 1tb caviar black for around 80 euros ($5000, 2011 est.)
and I'm totally satisfied
- 3030
I agree with the RAM, 4GB is the absolute minimum.
What about the HDD form factor? Does the 2.5 inch drive consume less power than 3.5? I knot that 2.5 inch drives are mainly for laptops but since the connector is the same, what not use it in desktop?
- deathboy0
i have a samsung f3, wd caviar black 32 & 64mb caches. samsung benchmarks better and is cheaper, however really i cant tell too much difference on the drives. and both wd and samsung has been good to me.
i agree with detritus on the ssd. i went with a small ssd and split my profile and happy i did it. the performance is really noticeable and drive was like a $130 crucial c300.
- 3030
Just found Kingston SSD 128GB for 145EUR; I would also need two extra HDDs (non SSD) - one for other files than system, the second for backups, which gives more than 200EUR just for the storage.