Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice?

[rizabbasi]

Hi,

Just want to know that if I can use 160 GB HDD/SSD from my hp 6910p laptop (not sure thats HDD or SSD). One thing I want to point out that its 1.5 Gbps. I know space is OK but not sure if 1.5 Gbps would suffice or not.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards,

Rizwan

[Mattthev]

Hi,

Just want to know that if I can use 160 GB HDD/SSD from my hp 6910p laptop (not sure thats HDD or SSD). One thing I want to point out that its 1.5 Gbps. I know space is OK but not sure if 1.5 Gbps would suffice or not.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards,

Rizwan

I assume it uses SATA? It will be only slow. It's definitly not SSD.

[bathrobehero]

What do you want to use it for?

In any case, SSDs are almost uncomparably faster when working with small chunks of data - which is the majority of everyday workload. So if capacity/cost is not your priority, SSDs are the way to go.

[fapar]

Hi,

Just want to know that if I can use 160 GB HDD/SSD from my hp 6910p laptop (not sure thats HDD or SSD). One thing I want to point out that its 1.5 Gbps. I know space is OK but not sure if 1.5 Gbps would suffice or not.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards,

Rizwan

Build a rig on a very simple HDD with a capacity of SATA-1 1.5 Gbit/s Conventional mining does not require high-bandwidth HDD (SATA-3/SCSI/SAS) or SSD use. This will be enough to operate Windows and miner.

[QuintLeo]

It's plenty - lots of miners that run their farms using USB "pen drives" to boot/run from.
 Other than ETH and clones using older software that built the DAG file on the CPU/HD, and the "HD mining" coins like BURST/Storj/SIA, nothing in mining uses the HD very much if at all once it has started actually mining or needs a lot of bandwidth.

 Some of my early mining rigs ran on EIDE interface hard drives - which were a LOT slower than anything SATA.