SSD for OS/gaming?

kohlditz said:
I'd buy:

Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - £209.99
+ Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM - £65.99

Use the Green as an archive/backup/storage drive and go nuts with the SSD as main drive.

You can save £30 by getting a Crucial SSD same size
You can save £20 by getting a 1TB HD
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I see, how do backup a constantly changing drive though? surely its too much of a pain.
 
I jumped onto SSDs back in 2009, I paid £240 for a 120g drive! :eek: I soon ran out of space and decided to RAID another one, amazing speed until one died, I went back to a Raptor whilst waiting for an RMA, I honestly thought the PC was broken it was so slow!

Now running out of space with the 500gb Samsung, thinking of selling it and going for the 1tb evo.
 
honestly if you can just wait for 1-2 weeks and watch the daily deals on all the main tech sales sites, you'll be able to pick up a real bargain. Like that Seagate 600 series 480gb for £160, but there's others as well. May not be the absolute best but it's still a very good drive for pretty silly money.
 
OLDPHART said:
If you can wait save some more money for a crucial or a Samsung SSD, just a thought that's what l would do.:)
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well, I can wait, I suppose living with a dinosaur Mechanical HDD that writes slower than a blind man with a dry biro. I have lived with it since my last SSD died, was considering a hybrid though.
 
Just to buck the trend slightly, for me SSD is one of the most disappointing upgrades I've made to my PC. Everyone bigs it up as some sort of night-and-day difference but I was left somewhat underwhelmed. At the time I only had SATA2 but even after upgrading to SATA3, Win8 and a newer SSD it still hasn't blown me away. Part of my problem may be I still have a few mechanical drives selected which get accessed for no apparent reason from time to time causing a bottleneck. I can't tell that much difference from a fast, sparsely populated/fragmented mechanical drive... sometimes I wonder if people are comparing with 5 year old clogged up drives or whatever.

Bear in mind if you have a lot of games and need/want them installed at once that it is very expensive to have them all on SSD (I only have 5mbit internet so can't just download stuff on a whim).
 
1st got 60GB SSD for Windows
Then got 120GB SSD for Windows and used the 60GB SSD for BF3
Now use the 60GB SSD for BF4 and DayZ

Furture:
Plan on using the 120GB for Windows still
Buy a 500GB or 1TB SSD just for games
60GB SSD is getting onto 3 or 4 years old now so its future is uncertain.

SSD = Best upgrade ever!
 
My SSD improved performance in quite a few games for me, not a higher FPS but significantly less stuttering, The Secret World had the biggest improvement.
 
I acquired my first ssd a few weeks ago, 120gb Crucial M500, and its also the best most noticable upgrade I've done since upgrading the gpu a while back and my next upgrade will be more ssd's for games etc.

Everything is just so much more mm mm mmm.
 
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