SSD

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I am interested in getting one I was thinking of having the OS on it and 1 or 2 games then everything else on my SATA

Is there a particular one that is better than others? looking at the prices I was thinking of going for about 60ish gb do you think this is enough for the OS and a couple of games?

Any nightmare storys about SSD's?

I dont want to spend loads then in 6 months the price drops by a stupid amount.

 

[eager]

excuse the non googled question but what is trim?

 

[eager]

SSDs have a habit of losing performance over time. This is because a lot of the time when something is "deleted" it isn't actually scrubbed from the drive, you just tell Windows to pretend it's not there anymore. With a normal HDD if it has to use the physical space that data was in later on it can just write over it, whereas with an SSD it has to clear it first, and then write the new data to it. This is what leads to the performance drop: the longer you've used the drive the more full it is of "deleted" files, so the more time your drive has to spend clearing out old junk before it has the space for new data.

The TRIM feature is something that does this on the fly more or less, so you shouldn't get to the point where you've got loads of SSD space full of old stuff that needs to be cleared before that area of the drive can be used again, which should restore performance to the level it was when the drive was new and keep it there.

I *think* that's the gist of it, I'm sure someone will point out if I'm wrong. Check the OcUK SSDs Explained sticky for more info.

Wow great reply. thank you... so I will be making sure I get one with TRIM then