Unsure about getting an SSD

al4x said:
Put it this way
It rather have 256 cheap drive that 128 quick drive
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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I have a Sandisk Extreme 240Gb SSD as my C: drive.
Seagate 480Gb and Crucial 240Gb SSD's as additional drives.
I also have one 80Gb Intel in a caddy.
No mech drives in the case, all in USB3 caddies as storage or backup devices.

Zero noise and better cooling. Bigger SSD's are better as they have more channels (chips) for writing to.

No raid, as it is one more layer to have problems. Raid for SSD is largely overrated and not very noticeable IMO.
 
In my opinion going from a mechanical drive to an SSD is the best thing you can ever do. You will notice the difference straight away. I was amazed when I upgraded to one.

I currently have a Samsung Evo 256Gb and use my old Samsung F1 750Gb to store music, photos and games. :)
 
Troezar said:
Been using SSD's for years now. One of the best upgrades you can do. I wouldn't consider a PC without an SSD boot drive.
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Every PC I`ve built for my customers over the past ~ 4 years has had an SSD as the boot drive.

If J. Public upgrades their 8 year old Dell to a new PC that uses a HDD, they might be suprised how little performance they gain. If they updrade to an SSD based machine, they get what they expect (and probably a bit more).

Here are the rules I use (for general purpose desktop PCs)......

Cheap CPU + SSD = Fast and fairly cheap PC.

Expensive CPU + HDD = Not so fast and fairly cheap PC.

Ton of photos/music ? Just add an internal, or external HDD.
 
I was a sceptic until a year or so ago. I wouldn't use anything other than an SSD for Windows now. Mine wasn't even a top of the range drive, was only 300MB read and 200MB write. Still made everything super fast.

I don't even cold boot my machine, so boot time wasn't a factor. Just loading apps and general responsiveness is off the charts, compared to "spinning rust" (as we now call HDDs) ;)

Typing this I'm just preparing a new Win7 image to put on my new SSD, which is faster again (500MB read 300MB write).

A Crucial MX100 256GB SSD can be found (new) from £66 to £80. The 512 model is slightly faster, but only for writes, and you may not notice any difference in performance. The 512 model is ~£149, but can be had cheaper.
 
a crap ssd is noticeably faster than RAID 7200RPM drives imo.

I've only got an 128gb SSD but 256gb are so cheap now you would be silly to not get one.
 
I have the same as many above - 120GB Samsung EVO, with OS, Office suite and my 'system' apps (benchmarking, GPU-Z, Antivirus/Malwarebytes, etc) on that.
2TB 7200 HDD for media, games, etc.

The only thing I'd change is a large SSD for games, when a 2TB one is affordable to me, as I like having my entire library of 'stuff' installed and ready to go.
 
Ive only got a 120gb ssd and i got it when they were new on the scene - best thing i ever did. You wont regret it at all, just do it and dont look back
 
Efour said:
a crap ssd is noticeably faster than RAID 7200RPM drives imo.

I've only got an 128gb SSD but 256gb are so cheap now you would be silly to not get one.
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Quite a lot of people seem to get hung up choosing the best performing SSD. I had an early SSD, an Intel X-25 80gb. It was "slow" compared to modern SSDs (SATA II and the read speed was about 200mb/s, the write was less than 100mb/s).

Although my current Samsung EVO is faster than how I remember the Intel, the difference is not a noticeable as you'd think. The real world difference between most modern SSDs is going to be small, if noticeable at all.

Forget the question "if and which SSD to get". Just get one ! :D
 
I'd never run an SSD before, but loads of my friends had them and raved about them. When I decided to build my new system I chose one for my boot drive, and I must say my machines absolutely flies through the boot sequence. I still have a standard HDD for all my apps and games etc, and I know it take s little longer to load than if they were also on an SSD, but at very minimum I'd buy an SSD for your Operating System, the difference is quite unbelievable :) I'd never go back to a standard HDD for the OS now.
 
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