HD or SSD or both

[Slik dA Relic]

when comparing both drives that are equal in price, its best to go HDD.. and although the failure rate for an HDD is much higher, there are some good brands i think u can rely on.. if ur not too concerned with size, then getting an SSD is ok.. but companies are selling HDD 1-2 terabyte drives for cheap now... SSD's are barely affordable and are only giving up 256meg as of right now... anything higher starts to get expensive.. but they ARE the future.

da relic

[cpwade]

I don't trust them quite yet, but as I am a slut, I did just spring for a hybrid. I'll keep you posted. Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003...

[machoboy]

I don't trust SSD for audio/video editing where you're re-writing something a thousand times. I had some data destroyed on one I used. I just ordered a WD HDD for my latest computer.

I've read a lot about the failure rates and while SSDs fail less often, when they do fail, they fail completely. HDDs will gradually accumulate bad spots and maybe even "die" on you but they're usually recoverable. SSDs just go lights out without warning and this has been documented at length by corporations with massive data storage.

SSD prices fall a few % every month while their capacity and reliability grows. I'm going to hold out until the technology cools down then buy one. SSD prices have fallen approx 50% on a dollar/gb ratio the past year and probably will continue to do so.

Of course the best of both worlds may be a very small high quality SSD for a reasonable price with the essentials of your computer on it for speed, then some behemoth 2 tb HDD to store recordings, images, etc.

[nott]

i exchanged my os hd and bought a 256 gb samsung ssd!!!
it's so fast!!!
for me i only would use ssd drives for my os.
it feels like a facelift for my older 2008 macpro.

buy an internal ssd for os (180-256 gb) and a fast external hd for audio.

[PumasNFatLaces]

Originally Posted by nott

i exchanged my os hd and bought a 256 gb samsung ssd!!!
it's so fast!!!
for me i only would use ssd drives for my os.
it feels like a facelift for my older 2008 macpro.

buy an internal ssd for os (180-256 gb) and a fast external hd for audio.

Same as you wrote keep the OS on SSD and samples and audio recordings on HDD also you can put DAWs on the SSD as well and its a nice setup IMHO.

[Duesenbert]

I'd go with internal SSD for OS and such, external HDD for recording and samples. With the peripherals you have (FW800, USB) you wouldn't notice a difference in external SSD vs external HDD.