07.11.2014, 09:08
Theres a noticeable difference when having the OS on the SSD. Games on a SSD also load up a bit faster, but I just got one game on it. A SSD's lifetime strongly depends on how much you write to it. Recording videos to it is like smoking, with every recorded video the ssd's deaths comes a bit closer, especially when its uncompressed and long.
I know its greedy to get a SSD just to barely use it, but actually I dont even think recording on the SSD will be much faster, it would be rather sane to put the OS and stuff on the SSD, and so reduce the load of the HDD to get more bandwidth for video recording.
You should also check the SATA version. Theres SATA 2, which still is the most common, but SSDs wont have a much higher bandwidth, because it just transfers up to 300MB/s. SATA 3 gets up to 600MB/s fast, so this is what you want to have for a SSD. Even on SATA 2 a SSD would still have fast access times, so it would be good for the OS and swap file, but pretty much useless for video recording, so you should check what kind of SATA ports you got.
I know its greedy to get a SSD just to barely use it, but actually I dont even think recording on the SSD will be much faster, it would be rather sane to put the OS and stuff on the SSD, and so reduce the load of the HDD to get more bandwidth for video recording.
You should also check the SATA version. Theres SATA 2, which still is the most common, but SSDs wont have a much higher bandwidth, because it just transfers up to 300MB/s. SATA 3 gets up to 600MB/s fast, so this is what you want to have for a SSD. Even on SATA 2 a SSD would still have fast access times, so it would be good for the OS and swap file, but pretty much useless for video recording, so you should check what kind of SATA ports you got.