Should I get a SSD?

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I currently have an oldish 250GB Sata HDD.

Will getting an SSD give me a decent overall performance?

I was thinking about getting one 2nd hand from the Members market. What sort of things should I look out for and what should I be asking the seller?

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My answer would be yes depending on what you do

I got myself an OCZ Agility 3 60GB. I use it as my windows/current games drive, the drive may be small but after windows and programs I have around 40GB free so I throw my current game on there and it helps a lot it open world games.

Boot times are super fast not that it matters much.

I will never go back to slower bootdrive and I will upgrade when games get bigger then 40GB

Some guys have had problems getting them to work but mine worked straight away, find a setting up ssd/optimise guide before you get one to save a headache.
 
There will be a significantly noticeable loading difference with an SSD, it should be noted however that to gain full benefit of the SSD it is also dependent on your system specification - Too slow a CPU or memory and really you're not getting the full performance out of it.

You should decide if you really need it, for me Windows boots up quickly anyway and so do my applications so you have to weigh out price vs your level of patients.
As for motherboard support for SATA 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s it's nothing to worry about since SSD's can't even saturate 3Gb/s anyway.
 
yes you will deffinatly notice the difference.

My windows boots to everything loaded in about 10 seconds on my M4 now.

WEI is 7.9 (i know its rubbish but its nice to see).

in battlefield 3 I am always the first person onto every map. Was in a game with a mate on TS and i think i managed to capture a flag before he got into the game.

everything loaded onto it is just super fast and no waiting for things to load.
 
Having the same thoughts as the OP. Hope this question helps him as well as me. Reading elsewhere here the consensus seems to load the following on the SSD to get the performance...

SSD

Windows
Large Regular Used Apps - Office, Avast, Photoshop etc
Games

HDD

All data, Libraries and non "critical" apps

Is that about it ? I am considering a 128GB drive to cover the above
 
Any program that needs to load from a hard-drive will see an impressive difference. For example, with games, such as WoW, loading times are halved, or better. Loading, for example, Photoshop is very fast, almost instant now with an SSD.

It's a great investment, and very good models are only getting cheaper (M4, for example.)

Take the plunge!
 
Thanks...I will.. :)

....and so I hope will the OP....would suggest reading the various threads about how to do it and in particular with the libraries and making sure saved docs, music, pics etc get saved to the HDD.

For me its the Crucial M4 128GB...should be big enough......
 
Thanks...I will.. :)

....and so I hope will the OP....would suggest reading the various threads about how to do it and in particular with the libraries and making sure saved docs, music, pics etc get saved to the HDD.

For me its the Crucial M4 128GB...should be big enough......
 
Should you get an SSD ?

My answer would be "why haven't you already got one ?".

Seriously, SSDs "unleash" your PC. I`ve been using an Intel 80gb SSD for about 2.5 years, and it has just decided to fail on me (seems that everything is failing since my recent upgrade to i5). I already knew how great SSDs were, but now I'm using a "normal" HDD, it has only confirmed that there's no going back once you've used an SSD.
 
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