What type of disk drive do you use for KSP?

[cantab]

SMART data though can be useful with hard drives, provided you monitor it and interpret the data correctly. A few years back Google released the results of a study using their data centres. My understanding is the SMART data is pretty much useless with SSDs.

[eddiew]

SSD allows me to restart (aka avoid a memory-limit crash), make a fresh cup of tea, and return to the menu screen

HDD... might as well go have a bath while all my mods load in

[vixr]

SSD! no moving parts!

[bigyihsuan]

SSD because that's all I have on my laptop.

[Joshwoo70]

bump?

[richfiles]

I had been running Steam and KSP on an External USB 3 HDD for the passed year. Steam won't run on a Case Sensitive file system on Macs, and I have ALWAYS formatted my startup drive as case sensitive. Had to setup a symbolic link to make Steam even work.

Now, i have a 1 TB SSD for OS and Steam. I caved and formatted it as case-insensitive... You know, cause it's easier to use a different format than convince lazy coders to add support to their software

-Glares at Steam-

Since I run a Hackintosh, upgrades are a little more complicated than a natural Mac OS X install, so I'm still working on it. Is till use HDDs though... LOTS of them. Just not for Steam and OS anymore.

Right now, it's:

1x 1TB SSD (OS, Steam, and KSP)

1x 6TB HDD

1x 4TB HDD

8x 2TB HDD

2x 3TB USB3 HDD

Yes, that's 33 TB of storage...

I do plan to retire all the 2 TB drives over the next year or two by replacing them with 6 TB drives, so I can run fewer drives for the same amount of space. And it's mostly for video.

[wossname]

1TB spinny metal for me. I'm surprised that SSDs are in the majority. Perhaps I'm living in the past!

Might treat myself this xmas.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

BTW Guys, there are currently some rather cheap SSD's on the german Amazon-market

https://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=256gb+ssd

256GB for ~ 90Euro's

[cantab]

To be honest it will be a bit of a shame if mechanical drives go away. Because a five-inch disc of metal spinning 120 times every second is frankly BadS.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

To be honest it will be a bit of a shame if mechanical drives go away. Because a five-inch disc of metal spinning 120 times every second is frankly BadS.

... in a 100% Helium Environment

Edit:

(Or was that just an experimental HDD? I am not sure.)

Found the Article: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/storage/helium-hard-drives-to-become-mainstream-says-hgst-1289578

Edited September 19, 2015 by MalfunctionM1Ke

[Joshwoo70]

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are you a manager IRL? where do you get all dem moneys for the hdds??

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1TB spinny metal for me. I'm surprised that SSDs are in the majority. Perhaps I'm living in the past!

Might treat myself this xmas.

TBH it has been a close fight.

[GDJ]

So far the stock internal 256 gig 7200 RPM HDD, but the game plays just as well on a Firewire 800 external HDD.

[Pixel of Life]

Both.

/stuffandthings

[Robotengineer]

Drum roll please...

Apple's Fusion Drive!

Although because it partitions funny, I think my Linux partition is on the HDD side, while my OS X partition gets the Fusion Power!

[xtoro]

BTW Guys, there are currently some rather cheap SSD's on the german Amazon-market

https://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=256gb+ssd

256GB for ~ 90Euro's

I would be careful and look up performance on these things. I lived in Germany for several years and found their cheap computer parts to be lower end stuff. Even things that look good have a different letter or number in the part number resulting in a lower performing part. Do your research first, and then tack on the customs fees you have to pay for when getting it shipped to your country before deciding if it's actually a good deal or not.

Drum roll please...

Apple's Fusion Drive!

Although because it partitions funny, I think my Linux partition is on the HDD side, while my OS X partition gets the Fusion Power!

Don't even get me started on this "breakthrough innovation" (sarcastic). They come out with a hybrid drive that's been around for a long time(it's not new, they didn't invent it), call it their own thing, and then make sure you HAVE to buy it by modifying the SATA connector in their computers to make it proprietary and ensure that you just don't buy a regular SATA SSD drive, and then call it amazing. /facepalm

[richfiles]

are you a manager IRL? where do you get all dem moneys for the hdds??

I spread it out. save for them. The 2 TB drives were purchased over many years, starting in 2009-2010. The 4 TB was last year, and the SSD was early this year. The 6 TB was this month, and is meant to replace 3 of the 2 TB drives, which are getting to be 5-6 years old. I used to have a GREAT job as a technician back in 2009, but now i work a lesser job at a lab (the place I used to work for closed doors after it was bought out). I got the 2 TB drives in a batch of 3 and then 5 back then, when I still had significant income coming in. The 3 TB drives were Walmart USB 3drives that I got between 2013 and 2014.

I'll probably grab another 6 TB around tax refund time (if you don't know how taxes in the USA works... They take your taxes off of your income, then they say either they took too much and give you a refund, or ask you to pay more if they didn't take enough.)

I ONLY buy Hitachi/HGST drives. They are by far the most reliable 3.5 inch mechanical hard drive I've seen.