SSD V HDD question

[neil_g]

Also bear in mind that its not the load speed that might be all thats affected in your simulation, the application itself will have to set the file up in memory etc and present it to you having processed it onto video ram etc. I suspect thats more where your time is being used in the simulation and thats why the numbers are about the same.

The bottle neck would still be the drive in that instance though across the mb bridges from the drive to the ram and across pci to gpu should all be faster than any drive can serve.

 

[Major Eazy]

Limited lifespan isn't the reason why one should store data files on a different drive. Yes, flash memory does have a limit to the number of write/erase cycles it can handle. But, even the worst case, that limit is at least 10,000 cycles. So, with a 250GB drive you would need to write and erase 2,500,000GB of data to reach that limit. If you keep your drive for 10 years you'd have to write 250,000GB a year, or 685GB every single day. That's erasing and refilling the drive two-and-a-bit times every day.

Wow! This was not explained clearly in most computing magazines. That's great, but still I would prefer HDD for data, specially for downloading movies and television shows from iTunes.

 

[arad85]

You should assume that SSDs and HDDs are equally fragile and plan for them to fail. They will do at some point....