Has an SSD become essential in Windows due to poor performing services?
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This along with media libraries and DVR/CCTV recording etc.
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SSD are essential these days yes.
But Windows 10 it's self is a far more optimized OS compared to previous Windows iterations.
They did a lot of work optimizing it and modernizing the OS.
But Windows 10 it's self is a far more optimized OS compared to previous Windows iterations.
They did a lot of work optimizing it and modernizing the OS.
Nowadays, for sure. I have 2 SSD's in my PC at present, and just bought my daughter one as well for her PC. I couldn't in good conscience ever recommend an HDD as primary drive to anyone ever again.
Is SSD reliability still an issue? I'm currently using a 1TB SSD as my boot drive, but a 2TB WD HDD for all videos/temp files/downloads etc to preserve SSD writes.
I would like to make the move to a full SSD system as I hate the HDD noise, but of course, I'm also worried about lifespan!
I would like to make the move to a full SSD system as I hate the HDD noise, but of course, I'm also worried about lifespan!
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I don’t think SSD reliability has been an issue in years. I’ve had a Crucial M500 in my home/gaming PC years now and it hasn’t missed a beat. Still scores 100% in drive health tests. All the various Mac-based systems I built and operated over a decade had at least one SSD inside and I never had a drive issue. These were the OEM drives Apple uses, so possibly the cheapest SSD that Samsung could build and nothing fancy.
Is that despite heavy SSD usage?
I wouldn't even worry about killing a modern SSD in writes with normal usage, you'd most likely die of old age before you kill one.
I waited until 1TB SSD's became just about affordable roughly 5/6 years before I swapped out from a spinning drive as my OS drive as I needed the capacity. Really is amazing the first time you experience one in person as the performance jump is insane. SSD's now are definitely a requirement. Modern operating systems should only be ran off an SSD these days, price of them is so cheap even for 1TB there's no excuse.
Look at this old article, 850 Pro 256GB hit 9.1 petabytes before giving up, killing a modern drive would be a challenge.
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/e...o-comes-to-an-end-after-9100tb-of-writes.html
I waited until 1TB SSD's became just about affordable roughly 5/6 years before I swapped out from a spinning drive as my OS drive as I needed the capacity. Really is amazing the first time you experience one in person as the performance jump is insane. SSD's now are definitely a requirement. Modern operating systems should only be ran off an SSD these days, price of them is so cheap even for 1TB there's no excuse.
Look at this old article, 850 Pro 256GB hit 9.1 petabytes before giving up, killing a modern drive would be a challenge.
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/e...o-comes-to-an-end-after-9100tb-of-writes.html
Linux is based on Unix where systems are typically on 24/7. That other Unix-based consumer OS, MacOS, has also switched to SSDs.
I'm well aware... I use Unix systems every day for my job.
A lot of the SSD reliability issues stem from older Patriot and OCZ, etc. drives in my experience - though there have been some other problems like the cell voltage decay alignment on certain Samsung models but overall these days write lifespan on an SSD is pretty reasonable though it is probably best still to avoid things like heavy video capture on drives you want to last 
I run Windows 10 Pro on HDD running inside a KVM virtual machine with the host running Linux. The performance is perfectly acceptable for what I need it for (Microsoft Office mainly). If you are gaming though you need an SSD otherwise your game load times are going to be awful.
My i7 laptop still uses HDDs but has 8GB SSD cache - takes nearly twice as long to boot as from an SSD but that is an ocean faster than from just HDD and once booted never really notice the difference except in game load times. I also have one of the HDDs short stroked for stuff that depends more on storage performance though. Unfortunately due to the way the laptop is implemented it isn't easy to upgrade the internal drives to SSDs.
I upgraded my Mum's HP all-in-one PC (i3 6100T and 8GB RAM) with an SSD the other week while I was up visiting, totally transformed it and it boots in seconds now, even with some of the (somewhat useful/necessary) HP bloat in the background.
