Right now I have a 500 gig 7200RPM/32MB cahe Seagate drive that is serving as my primary hard drive with one partition for the OS and day to day programs, and a second for games and storage, and a second IDE hard drive just big enough to store my music and back up some files. The 500 gig is getting cramped, and the IDE is getting slow.
I'm looking to get another storage hard drive were I can basically just dump all my music/movies/back ups/iso's onto. Any brand recommendations, and also since this won't be my OS or gaming drive does the cache size matter as much, I'll still be playing music/movies off it though. Thanks for the help!
From what I understand the read time is quite quick but the write time is actually slower or on part with normal drives. As far as I can tell most gamers with high end machines are still running 10k RPM raptors. I messed with the idea as well but what stopped me was the amount of issues that happened with SSD drives in my price range. I'd probably just spend time pouring over reviews on newegg.
From what I have heard SSD drives are not worth the investment when compared to a good 10,000 RPM drive as TbOne said.
The major problem with SSD drives is that they wear out quite quickly and on a per GB basis are a lot more expensive than traditional platter based HDD's.
If I were you I'd get a normal platter-based HDD and wait for SSD's to become two things ; (1. Cheap (2. Reliable, that should all change with the new, faster and more reliable memory technology which should be coming out in the next few years called "memristor"
