SSD vs HDD

[Sepu]

Hello friends...

Just wanted to ask you what do you think about SSD hard disk, if you already tried them. I know they are expensive and I would like to buy one of them to use as system drive (fastest boot for Windows and for the softwares too).

What do you think about using it for work on video editing (with the video files into another normal HDD)?

Let me know..
Chris

[Sepu]

ok seems like nobody here ever tried an SSD hard disk. I just bought one. I will let you know

[Sepu]

ok just to give you an update (if someone is interested ). I spent 6 hours of my weekend trying to understand why I couldn't restore an image of an hard disk into another one...
I think the main problem was the new hard disk has less space than the one of the image I made lol. I didn't know I needed another same HD or a bigger one....

So I finally decided to just install everything from the start on the SSD (Win 7 64bit)
The Windows startup isn't faster than on the normal HDD..dunno why. From when I push the PC button to the time when I can work, it's 50 seconds.

But interesting are the startup of the software

-Sony Vegas took before 18 secs, now JUST 4!
-AutoCAD Civil 3D (an heavy program we use for roads projects in 3D etc) took before 1 min and 13secs, and now just 24secs!

This is INSANE...lol

[sorrowman]

Read and Write speed of an SSD are typically WAY higher then regular HD's, so startup speeds of programms are way faster with an SSD, since a regular HD is mostly the bottleneck when it comes down to these things. As for using it for video editing, I'm not sure if it will affect these so much, as these task are typically CPU-intensive rather then HD-read/write intensive. Besides, the price of a big SSD usable for video-editing would in my opinion be off the charts. A smaller size SSD for say windows and other software you use is becoming more and more affordable, but a large size SSD with enough space to store large (HD) videofiles would be way expensive.

As for the size of your partition, placing an image of a larger partition on a smaller HD is possible. The right modern Imaging software usually has the ability to resize a partion to the appropriate size. So suppose you want to move your software from a 500GB regular HD to a smaller 120GB SSD the Imaging software will detect this difference in size and will give you the option to resize the partition so it will fit the new smaller size SSD.

I do hope you have Windows 7 and an SSD supporting TRIM (a way for the SSD to effeciently handle write actions), other wise the performance of the SSD will degrade.

[Sepu]

thanks for your reply.
Yes, indeed the price of an SSD is "ok" for a OS partition, but not for the storage of huge video files, especially the HD ones.

A guy suggested me to use the program "snapshot" for this image restore work, but I found it a bit "difficult" about these command by DOS. Btw, I couldn't do what you said about the bigger image into a smaller size with this little program.
Probably there are better software for this work.

It is stupid that the program doesn't recognize just the full part of the partition, keeping away the empty space.....

About the storage of video files I bought a 1 TB HDD with 7200rpm

Yes, Windows is 7 Pro 64bit, I think it's the best one around now

I'm not going to install many softwares on this SSD, just to keep it clean and don't affect the performance

[sorrowman]

I've used Acronis True Image for such tasks in the past, and know it to support the resizing of partitions into smaller or bigger ones as needed, and it will detect the need for resizing automatically. In addition, it has a GUI (graphical user interface) rather then obscure DOS commands so it's easy to work with. The latest version also supports all versions of Win 7.

[Sepu]

great. So it's the same I'm already using on my common XP PC at home I will check out the new version too. Now I've the version 7 installed.

[porcelmc]

without reading all of the posts I will assume you are referring to solid state drives. Yeah I am lazy, so fucking what!!! Its a fact what the Sorrowman has stated and you probly already know, SSD are simply faster. Its like having a "High Speed" SD Card for a HDD. There are no more RPM's associated with the drive. My main problem is that they are still WAY to overpriced. I feel the same way about Blu Ray burners and media. Currently I only use Blu Ray burners at work cause it free and so is the media. But when they become reasonable, both Solid State Drives and Blu Ray Burners, I plan to upgrade.

Anyway thats another one of my boring opionions. Ignore them and move on with your life, fortunately I already have hahahahahahha!!!!