Adding an SSD. Worth it at this point?

Tazzfalcon

Tazzfalcon

Tazzfalcon

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Hi all,

I was wondering whether people think it would be worth me adding an SSD to my sig. setup at this point?

Is it worth the expense and hassle given that I don't have Sata-6gbs ports on my motherboard and I wouldn't be able to afford more than a 120gb SSD anyway? Plus the time and annoyance of transfering Windows?

If you were in my position would you bother or would you think about mobo/CPU upgrade first in say 6-12 months?

Merry cheers-mas!:D
 
YES!

An SSD is the single most noticable upgrade I've done in my system in the past few years.

Really fast boot times, really fast virus scans, opening programs that are on the SSD there's no waiting time at all.

I've got an M4 myself which is a sata-6gbs ssd and i've not got a 6gbs sata port. Still lightning fast, you probably wouldnt notice the difference in day to day usage unless your copying large files a lot.
 
I've been reading a guide on another forum that dare not speak its name and it makes it sound like quantum physics to partition and sort out. I guess I just need a bit of reassurance that you don't need an advanced degree in computing to get it settled in right - are there tonnes of motherboard settings that are going to be effected?
 
I've the 128GB M4 and it wasn't much more difficult to install and setup than a normal hard drive. There is just no way I could go back now.

(Loving playing Skyrim with it as it literally takes 2-3 seconds to load new areas)
 
A SSD is fast, easy to install and no problems whatsoever. That other forum you couldn't name is just plain wrong :)
 
Really easy to install, just unplugged the other HDD's and only left the SSD in then installed windows.

I did a few minor tweaks like moving the default downloads docs etc folder to a HDD to save room as well as disabeling hibernate and system restore to save space but thats not hard to do at all.
 
Tazzfalcon said:
I've been reading a guide on another forum that dare not speak its name and it makes it sound like quantum physics to partition and sort out. I guess I just need a bit of reassurance that you don't need an advanced degree in computing to get it settled in right - are there tonnes of motherboard settings that are going to be effected?
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You can manually align a partition using PartEd. Or you can download latest Acronis, clone your SSD off, clone it back on. Alignment issue sorted. No rocket science.
 
When downloading standard programs (like flashplayer, quicktime etc), is it worth putting them all on the SSD, or is it worth putting some on your second drive, so as not to use up the valuable SSD space?
 
I got 2 SSD's. One for game installs and the other with windows drive. All supported with 3x 2tb HDD.

SSD was the best upgrade I had done in a long time. Until the new build i have going on at the minute that it... LOL
 
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