Anyone not using a SSD boot drive?
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words cant describe how the pc feels once running off an ssd,you simply have to own/use one to understand
I use them at work. Honestly, my system at home is just as responsive (or so it feels to me).
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Since owning an SSD I can't remember NOT being first into a multiplayer server. If anything, owning an SSD is annoying because you have to wait for all the non-SSD-owning riffraff to load the map before you can start killing them
This is true.
Playing bf3 for example you can tell which players run SSD at the start, lawl.
I thought like you before I got an SSD (which I just purchased because I wanted to see what the fuss was about) and now nothing would make me go back to a standard HDD for my boot and game drives.
You'll love it when you get one. Apps launch pretty much instantly and games run smooth as silk with no real loading delay.
Not really a fair comparison - as you are comparing an old /used installation to a completely fresh one, you could probably knock over a minute off the old boot up time (to log-in screen) just by reformatting on the same drive
finally picked up a 128gb kingston v200 @ 39p per GB
from presisng my pc power button to a fully loaded desktop now takes 21 seconds (with boot racer, so my desktop apears and is fully useable in about 15 seconds but bootracer doesnt stop the timer until theres no disk activity at all)
no longer having to worry about stopping programs from starting at windows boot because they slow everything down so much = priceless
from presisng my pc power button to a fully loaded desktop now takes 21 seconds
(with boot racer, so my desktop apears and is fully useable in about 15 seconds but bootracer doesnt stop the timer until theres no disk activity at all)no longer having to worry about stopping programs from starting at windows boot because they slow everything down so much = priceless
I've literally (this week) just bought my first SSD for my main machine. Not that fussed about buying for the other 3 PCs in the house. Only bought this one 'cos I had some vouchers that made it dirt cheap for a 60GB Corsair (£25), otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
Will eventually get more, when they're a more cost effective solution, but don't see that happening for a year or two.
Will eventually get more, when they're a more cost effective solution, but don't see that happening for a year or two.
After all the problems I've had with my old Vertex (to call it an unreliable pos would be putting it rather kindly 
), I've been reluctant to invest in a newer drive.
WD Black is fast enough for my needs just now anyway
That said, I've been hovering over the buy button on a Samsung 830 256GB now that they're hovering around £150...
), I've been reluctant to invest in a newer drive.WD Black is fast enough for my needs just now anyway
That said, I've been hovering over the buy button on a Samsung 830 256GB now that they're hovering around £150...
Yes, I was scared off by all the early problems with SSDs - blue screens etc. I waited and then went for what I think is one of the most reliable - the Crucial M4. Although even that had a recent issue where it stopped working or something after a certain amount of hours, and required a firmware fix.
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I put off buying an SSD for quite a while and saw it more as a luxury upgrade, which it sort of is... Although now I'm up and running on one myself at under £80 for 128GB it's a nice upgrade to have simply because you're not waiting around half as long for things to happen, and there's minimal noise now unless of course I'm accessing my old mechanical drive!
An SSD is definitely not needed, but it's certainly more pleasing to have such a responsive system.
An SSD is definitely not needed, but it's certainly more pleasing to have such a responsive system.
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I'm a ssd junky... got 2x agility 3 120gb in raid 0 for os and games and another agility 3 240gb for apps and docs. Can't remember what app load screens look like ! Never timed my startup time, not an issue for me but it's darn fast... what makes the cost worthwhile is everything, and i mean everything, loads really fast, almost instantly.