05-21-2016, 12:19 PM
I would not throw money at this problem. If you decide to buy a new system and obtain a large pcie ssd then it will make a huge difference.
The other option is to go with a stripe raid and two hard drives. There are a lot of problems with hybrid drives and I would avoid them. For general task I guess they might have their place (esp with slow laptop hard disks) but personally I find their negatives worse.
sata2->sata3 isn't going to help much with a single hard drive. There are some advantages beyond speed but again your not going to see them with your work load.
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I could recommend replacing your hard drive with an ssd but if you require the full 2tb it will cost $700 today.
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Btw how long does it actually take for you to save your image ? A quality hard drive should be able to write > 20-50MB a second if the data is contiguous.
The other option is to go with a stripe raid and two hard drives. There are a lot of problems with hybrid drives and I would avoid them. For general task I guess they might have their place (esp with slow laptop hard disks) but personally I find their negatives worse.
sata2->sata3 isn't going to help much with a single hard drive. There are some advantages beyond speed but again your not going to see them with your work load.
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I could recommend replacing your hard drive with an ssd but if you require the full 2tb it will cost $700 today.
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Btw how long does it actually take for you to save your image ? A quality hard drive should be able to write > 20-50MB a second if the data is contiguous.