Second Drive option. Hybrid or Non Hybrid with mSATA Card?

[hargil]

I indend to get a SSD for my first drive (120 GB intel 520).

As far as a second disc goes would i be better getting a hybride drive (750 Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid)
or a normal drive (750 GB Scorpio, say) with a mSATA card?


I assume a hybrid and mSATA card is not a good idea!!

thanks

[vanthus]

I would go for a normal hard drive for your second one,probably a caviar black would be the best choice.

[hargil]

would you go for the mSATA option?

[vanthus]

would you go for the mSATA option?

Personally I wouldn't,no.

[hargil]

whould you go for the caviar black based on speed, longevity or for some other reason?

wouldn;t the mSATA amke it faster? or would there be no practical improvment?

[Smurfette]

As far as I know mSATA only works on the primary boot drive. I may stand corrected though.

[hargil]

oh!!!

that's for the advice

[andste659]

Hello, I'm looking to move from a desktop to a laptop and PCSpecialist seemed a good place to check - this thread is almost on the point I'm after - does anyone know how the Hybrid drives stack up against an SSD / normal HDD pair?

If I was mainly going to have operating system on the SSD and everything else on the normal HDD, I was wondering if it was a waste of the SSD (compared to a hybrid), with a 120GB SSD I suppose there should be room for a few games but I've yet to find an option on Steam to allow some to be saved on one drive and some on another (not that all games are on Steam). The difference in cost isn't crazy, but would cover moving to a matt screen or a blu-ray drive (or just having a lower cost).

[hargil]

I don't do games but...

When you install a program (game) do you not get an option as to where to save it to?

if so could you not have a directory on the second drive (d called d:\programs and load most of the normal programs there and only load the ones you want to run fast on the c:\programs directory

[andste659]

Yes for most programs - but Steam is a content delivery system, and might (I can't remember - it was meant to be a side comment not the main point) just whack everything into the same place.