Unsure about getting an SSD

elfoxy

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I have a 1TB 7200RPM HDD that I've been using for a while now, I found an old 320gb hard drive and I was thinking about doing RAID 1 & having an SSD with my operating system.

What SSD do you guys recommend? I was thinking a 32 or a 64gb would be fine, but I'm not sure which would be the most suitable for just W7 64bit and a few small files. I don't want to spend more than about £50-£75 either.

I only plan on doing RAID with the 320gb drive until I can afford to upgrade which will probably be a few months from now.
 
id only go ssd if you can afford a llarger drive,32gb-60gb isn't worth it tbh

unless your board supports caching

id be looking at the crucial m100 512gb drives and the Samsung evo's
 
You can get a 240GB SSD for around £80 now, that's the best way to go.

RAID on some standard 320GB drives is a waste of time IMO.
 
andy_mk3 said:
You can get a 240GB SSD for around £80 now, that's the best way to go.

RAID on some standard 320GB drives is a waste of time IMO.
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The prices on SSDs are amazing and they are only going to keep coming down.

My Crucial M4 128GB cost me £85 I think. Even at the prices then it is still the best upgrade I have ever done.

I would definitely go 256GB+ knowing what I know now. With the speeds you get you will definitely want to have some of your most played games installed on it which is only a few on a small SSD such as mine.
 
Ok would it be worth just waiting until I can get a 256/512gb SSD and then just putting everything on it? Or should I just buy another 1TB HDD for RAID and a 128GB SSD?
 
Don't bother with RAID at all. Get whatever size of SSD you can afford now and put your OS and main apps on there. SSD for media files is pointless.

You will see a tangible speed increase with regards to loading times.

I was sceptical of SSDs for a long time but now I have moved all my data aside from my media files over to it.
 
It is 100% worth it, even if I had to downgrade my GPU to have one I would. All I want is another one to fit some games on, I really want a 500GB Samsung Evo to be £100 lol.
 
Mechanical hard drives are the biggest bottleneck on a computer , prices are so cheap for an SSD it would be crazy imo to not purchase one.
 
I'll echo the sentiment that getting an SSD is very worthwhile, forget about RAIDing old disks. I will disagree with the 'it has to be large' statement though. While if you can afford ~250GB then that'd be nice I still find 120GB is enough to be very useful, and would still take a 60GB over no SSD though I'd not go below that. Given the prices I'd say aim for 120GB+ for sure. Larger ones are faster too (than the same version small one) up to about 250GB normally, although the small ones will still be a revolutionary leap from what you've been using until now.
 
unsure about getting an SSD. Its probably one of the THE most advantageous upgrades at the moment. Its a given.

Your whole system will feel a lot zippier.
 
I was very doubtful about ssds. Now every machine I use has once

I need at least 256gb on my systems. I could squeeze into a 128gb but I wouldn't have much space left and also as capacity goes up performance usually does too.
256 is faster than 128 in most cases

Put it this way
It rather have 256 cheap drive that 128 quick drive

If you don't have many programs you want on ssd you can get away with 128.

Will end up with 1tb of ssd in raid 0 config by end of year
This allows me to have no mechanical hdd in my case

(mechanical for media as previously said!)
 
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