HDD or SSD?

[CosmicNoodle]

Whilst tech savvy myself i have been deliberating whether to move from my mechanical HDD to the new SSD's that are gaining popularity.
I have looked over the specs and price of them an wonder what you guys think of them, Some of you must have had experience with both SSD's and HDD's.
Tell me what you think i should do in the comments, thanks for the help!

Just so you know it is for my current gaming PC :)

[Rayquaza]

SSD's are much faster as they have no moving parts, but there's two massive drawbacks;

SSD's are a lot more limited in capacity, and SSD's are a hell of a lot more expensive (apparently 6x more per GB as far as I know). But they really are blazing fast and consume less power. Due to the space my files occupy I'd rather stick with a Magnetic HDD just because it can cater all the space.

[Meganium]

Whilst tech savvy myself i have been deliberating whether to move from my mechanical HDD to the new SSD's that are gaining popularity.
I have looked over the specs and price of them an wonder what you guys think of them, Some of you must have had experience with both SSD's and HDD's.
Tell me what you think i should do in the comments, thanks for the help!

I'm not sure what kind of build your modifying, but if you've already gone with an HDD and you really want the speed, an SSD is fantastic. An excellent upgrade if that's where you're coming from.

[Hypers]

SSDs are extremely fast but also costly. Around a dollar for a GB.

The speed of an SSD is noticeably quicker, so it's more useful for doing resource intensive tasks such as photo and video editing.

[Hyper]

SSD.

Their not ''new'' anymore. Technologies for SSDs get new but yeah...

I see a lot of prebuild systems that would otherwise be awesome being sold with some weak-ass HDDs that make the entire computer seem a lot slower than it actually is.

Your HD makes up a huge portion of user experience. All loading times off your HD and actions on your computer depend on it.

An SSD is much faster, roughly 10 times so on average in terms of latency meaning it will start searching for the information you require 10 times quicker than any HDD would. That alone makes your computer feel many times faster.

Also no moving parts in a SSD, since it's flash memory, so it isn't nearly as partial to mechanical failure.

[TheMatrix]

I like my standard hard drive just fine. I don't think I would notice a very significant speed increase, since my files are usually only several megabytes large, at most.
I don't edit photos or videos, of course, which is the biggest factor.

[Trace]

An SSD is definitely faster, but if you're not using it for anything big than just stick with the HDD. Nbd at the end of the day.

[Collins1]

HDD for capacity and price. SSD for speed.

[CharlieHorse]

Good advice peoples ^^ Also, HDDs are more prone to fail.

[Funny 3 Scene]

If you're gonna get an SSD for your build, is what I'm assuming, I'd install the OS onto the SSD, and buy a 1TB (or more, depending on budget) to store everything else.

[TheAppleProsS]

There's is also SSHD that is SSD AND HDD in one

[Skyhawk]

SSD's are great, but a fast hard drive is more cost-effective. WD's new single platter terabyte drives are exceptionally quick.

[samsunglover]

If you want the speed of a ssd and the storage of a regualr hdd. Get a ssd and put you os on it and use a hdd for storage.. It is really fast

[Human]

Do what samsunglover said, SSDs are too small and expensive as a whole computer device so combine both together, SSD for your OS and a fast HDD for your files.