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[Vayra86]

Just got a word from moderator. Apparently me debunking SSD caching myths and telling people how to save money and still have great performing system is now an offensive thing. Got it. Everyone buy awesome SSD for boot drive. And 5400 RPM HDD for storing of data. It's excellent. If everyone use such configuration, they can't possibly be wrong... I apologize for being helpful.

Well to me your story made a lot of sense. FWIW

 

[Tatty_Two]

Just got a word from moderator. Apparently me debunking SSD caching myths and telling people how to save money and still have great performing system is now an offensive thing. Got it. Everyone buy awesome SSD for boot drive. And 5400 RPM HDD for storing of data. It's excellent. If everyone use such configuration, they can't possibly be wrong... I apologize for being helpful.

No you just got word from me that your insults and attitude are not welcome in this thread or anywhere else, feel free to give your opinions and advice at any time.

 

[alucasa]

I have wondered one thing while reading this thread and I don't think I still have the answer for it.

What's wrong with storing data on regular HDD?

 

[Ahhzz]

No you just got word from me that your insults and attitude are not welcome in this thread or anywhere else, feel free to give your opinions and advice at any time.

I assume this attitude also received a notice....

"What the hell... Is he STILL bleating on about how a cached hard drive is "vastly superior" to an SSD?????? Honestly wow."

 

[alucasa]

I get cautioned frequently by mods. It's nothing to worry about.

 

[erixx]

LOL. Maybe it's the fact that with summer nearing and temperatures rising forums tend to get overly "crispy" and unuseful? Adding a punch to every argument?

 

[newtekie1]

I have wondered one thing while reading this thread and I don't think I still have the answer for it.

What's wrong with storing data on regular HDD?

Nothing. For data, like movies, music, documents, pictures, storing them on a normal hard drive is just fine. There is no need to access this data faster.

In fact, IMO, installing games on a non-OS HDD isn't really that bad either. Since the HDD isn't loaded down and thrashing due to OS access, so the slow random read isn't as bad for games. Load times are still longer than with an SSD, but not what I would call terrible. However, having a SSD cache on that HDD does help out, and is worth it, IMO, as long as the SSD is cheap enough(like I said, my limit is about 128GB right now).

I assume this attitude also received a notice....

"What the hell... Is he STILL bleating on about how a cached hard drive is "vastly superior" to an SSD?????? Honestly wow."

That isn't really as bad as RejZor was. Saying using SSDs as boot drives is "retarded" is likely the offensive part that got him warned. Of course, now he's flying off that handle spinning like they are trying to stop him from talking about SSHDs not acknowledging the fact that he's called thing "retarded" and been insulting, and that is why he got warned...

 

[alucasa]

My current config is SSD-OS SSD-App HDD-data (Backup disk where data is duplicated at least once per month).

I used to have SSD-OS HDD-app HDD-data.

Honestly, I cannot tell much of speed advantage on the app disk where Steam games, GIMP, Blender, etc are installed between SSD and HDD.