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Games that load lot of levels or other stuff all the time and have long loading times benefit from this. Music and videos are usually just fine on HDD and most games too.
OS, everyday programs and some select games is good choice, unless you have some 1-2 TB SSD and can just put everything there.
This message was posted 8/13/2016 @ 7:54 AM CDT
Basically if you find you need more space pick up another solid state drive, or pick up additional thumb drives. With the ubiquity of usb ports in most modern rigs. You can easily make up any short fall by picking up thumb drives as the need arises. There just isn't any reason to invest in a hard drive anymore. The price differential isn't even that great anymore.
SSD is fast and seek-free so ideal for stuff you need to load in a blink, that applies to parts of OS, games, etc.
For temporary files it's good for performance, but bad for wearing-out. The technology is such that every cell can only get overwritten a limited amount of times before picking up bit errors and later just fail. The controller handles all that for you reallocating the data to new sectors and eliminating the bad ones. But they will accumulate. So if you have a file that gets overwritten several times every second, that will eventually ruin the disk. You have to find your balance.
Err, more reliable than what? Floppy disks?
4TB Samsung Evo 850: $1500
4TB HDD: A little over $200
2TB Samsung Evo 850: At least $600
2TB HDD: Less than $100
The SSD will be obsolete due to its size and, by then, poor speed before that becomes an issue for the home user. It was barely an issue on the first generation due to the rapid drop in price, and rapid improvements of the later generations, making replacing it quickly a natural choice.
Why the ♥♥♥♥ are you manually time stamping a message that already gets time stamped by the forums?
More reliable then hard drives which are far more prone to failure. The reason for this should be fairly obvious. They are mechanical devices, and as such they experience more wear and tear. Further more they are more vulnerable to environmental conditions. Not just the temperatures in their immediate environment, but the vibrations in the local environment. In other words they are very easy to damage. All it really takes is one good jar.
Mind you this is assuming an ideal situation. Which isn't what we typically find right now. As the price of solid state drives has come down. Hard drives have had to do likewise in order to remain competitive within the market place, and frankly that price cutting isn't coming from innovation. It is coming from cutting corners. So the quality is obviously suffering as a consequence. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
What I mean to say is if someone is in the market for slower cheaper memory. Reliability most likely isn't a major concern for them, or more likely a calculated risk they are willing to accept. In this instance however I have to question the necessity. As the better memory isn't all that much more expensive, and frankly nobody needs that much memory for light use. Not with the myriad of better solutions available.
There are so many external solutions these days. Burn it onto discs, use thumb drives, making use of the cloud, and so forth. From my experience a lot of people seem to buy hard drives out of force of habit, or they are impressed by the large numbers. Never adequately questioning the actual necessity. I can certainly appreciate why store models come with hard drives. They look good on paper, and the manufacturers have to get rid of them, but if you are building your own you don't need to buy into something that only looks good on paper.
Anyway I hope you are not arguing that hard drives are more reliable then solid state drives.
@OP: Price vs performance: everything that runs should be on the SSD. Everything that's played back, or stored for long term, should be on a HDD.
I consider reliability to be a moot point. If it's irreplaceable, it should be backed up. You shouldn't be relying on a supposedly safer storage system. Murphy's law.
Still weird giving that hundreds do that every day here, without adding a time stamp.
@Banzaigtv: sorry if WTF came over a little harsh.
Do you actually require that much internal storage, because I would respectfully argue that if you require that much storage. Then you would be much better served by investing in a disc drive in order to burn most of that data to discs. They will last upwards of fifty plus years, and you can make multiple back ups.
You are seriously grasping for a justification. Especially considering the amount of connectivity present in most modern rigs. In other words you don't need a single drive, and the original poster isn't talking about a single drive. What is it exactly you think the original poster is intends to use their rig for. Simulating the birth of galaxies, modeling weather patterns, running a game server.
I mean if we are going this route we might as well bring ram discs into the conversation.
What you consider a moot point may be of paramount importance to another. Having your data backed up is a wonderful precaution, but it does nothing to address the core problem. Replacing a drive is a pain most of us would choose to avoid. Is it the only consideration. Well obviously it is not, but it is a consideration none the less.
Don't rely on a single medium for your valuable data. Don't let any of your storage options age indefinately.
Due to the way my system is set up, the only inconvenience of a failure is minor expense and an ~hour spend babysitting the PC while watching a show if the OS drive fails. Anything else is just backing up from storage overnight or redownloading from online as and when I need it. While the failure rates on SSD's and HDD's are significantly different when directly compared, they're insignificant as a home consumer.