The natural middle ground is to get an SSD for your Windows installation and an HDD for all your stuff. This video shows you how to setup both to make them work well together.

Windows 7 and SSDs: Setup secrets and tune-up tweaks Solid-state drives (SSDs) let your PC start and shut down fast, and they work at speeds that blow the doors off conventional hard drives.

SSD vs HDD is a hot contest right now, and hybrid drives offer solid middle ground. As of now, picking between SSDs, HDDs, and SSHDs is quite tricky.

How do I install Windows on a SSD instead of HDD? To set up Windows on an SSD instead of HDD, connect the SSD and a bootable USB drive with the Windows installation files.

Can I use both an SSD and an HDD in the same computer? Yes, you can absolutely use both an SSD and an HDD in the same computer, and it's actually a pretty common setup.

I imagine this question has been asked to death but which is better? Currently I have the page file set on my secondary HDD to conserve space on the SSD. My system has 16GB of DDR3 so I was ...

Unlike HDDs, current generation SSDs use a memory technology called NAND flash to store its data. The data is written by applying electricity to each cell for either reading data or writing data.