Hard Drive Debate: Storage vs. Speed

[UBS28]

I have a lot of files I like to take on the go, so that is why I just bought a 2TB Seagate M9T SATA drive for my macbook pro. At just $99 (price of the seagate backup plus to get the bare drive), it is a fraction of the cost of getting a 512GB SSD for $500.

Is the price for less storage worth it that much? 5 times the price for 1/4 of the storage.

What is your preference, storage or speed? In this example, would you rather get a 2TB internal SATA drive or 512GB SSD in your macbook pro?

If you have SSD, how do you manage with the smaller storage availability?

You can get 1 TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD for $500. The speed is worth the 1TB less space at 5 times the cost for me.

 

[Merode]

I have 256GB SSD in my Macbook, but I also have external 500GB HDD for backup and 1TB HDD for archives and movie projects. Both are USB 3.0.

Almost the same applies to my PC - 128GB SSD accompanied with 1TB internal HDD for archives.

So - why not have both?

 

[Bbafett]

I have a 1.5TB internal HDD for my Macbook pro. Contemplating on taking out the optical drive and moving the hdd to it and putting in a 128GB SSD for my programs and booting.