What is the point of SSD?

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Hi Guys,

Just curious.

What is the major point of SSD? Looking at getting a small 60gb one.

Is it basically just to put your operating system on ?

So everything works really fast?

Thanks in advance!
 
its so you can say your OS boots up 20seconds faster

once everything is loaded in os 20 seconds later you can go on to do real world stuff without having to worry about changing the default download location of windows etc while the guy with the SSD runs his benchmarks and posts on forums.

seriously i wouldnt bother until atleast a 100-200 gb is affordable
 
They seem overpriced for what they actually do. Your system boots up faster and that's about it.
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It isnt until you use one you realise how much time you spend waiting for a disk to spin up and a head to access. Yes you can do without one but they make quite a difference when you have your os on one.

60gb one is totally justified given what people spend on other parts.

Would agree anything more than that is questionable.

EDIT; also os and programmes with fit on that size. You set the torrent file to your hd, check to see if anything else needs doing and that is it. Some people get pathelogical about writes to their ssd. This just is not necessary. If you game you can have a separate hd to do the games on, or just put them on a short stroked partition of a large storage drive- then they will have a dedicated rather than the hd flicking about doing os tasks aswell.

oh...and after 9 months as an os drive me intel 80gb has worn out a grand...2%!
 
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el Kuarlos said:
It isnt until you use one you realise how much time you spend waiting for a disk to spin up and a head to access. Yes you can do without one but they make quite a difference when you have your os on one.

60gb one is totally justified given what people spend on other parts.
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monster_munch said:
Hi Guys,

Just curious.

What is the major point of SSD? Looking at getting a small 60gb one.

Is it basically just to put your operating system on ?

So everything works really fast?

Thanks in advance!
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lower power
better reliability
faster access times
at the expense of limited write cycles :)
 
arknor said:
its so you can say your OS boots up 20seconds faster

once everything is loaded in os 20 seconds later you can go on to do real world stuff without having to worry about changing the default download location of windows etc while the guy with the SSD runs his benchmarks and posts on forums.

seriously i wouldnt bother until atleast a 100-200 gb is affordable
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Is this based on experience? Because until you used an SSD you would not realise how much lag and wait there is with a traditional hard disk. Every thing is faster opening and the system feels much more snappier.
 
once everything is loaded in the os there is no snappier opening...

mayube if you reboot your pc all the time you might notice the difference but i leave mine running for days on end and once everything is loaded into windows cache anyway....

its not like theres huge swapfile usage anymore like back in the day because everyone has more than enough memory
 
As I use S3 sleep rather than powering off my PC I see no difference in the boot time. But if I ever do switch it off then I suppose it is faster but I don't notice as I am often making a brew at that point.
Photoshop Elements does load faster and I imagine that other things do as well, but my brain does not function in fractions of a second anyway. But for me the biggest reason that I bought the SSD was for the silence. In that way it is head and shoulders over my previous clunky mechanical drive.
I imagine that if I went back to a mechanical HD, I sometimes boot up from my other mechanical drive and see this, then I would be a little surprised at the lack of response compared to the SSD but you get used to whatever you are using. It is not a night and day difference but it is certainly noticeable.
 
not noticeable by enough though for just an os drive in my opinion.

once they are affordable in a size that can manage a few games install then sure they will be more than worth it game loads times will notice a huge difference but for os use its fairly pointless
 
I cant justify the cost at the moment. I use a fast Mechanical drive and it does the job for me.
 
If i'm working on Photoshop or Corel Draw for the day my SSD can save me lots of time, It paid for itself within a month.

I have a small SSD (60gb) on my gaming rig at home and it speeds it up quite a bit but I would never buy one for loading games or storing files.
 
nippynoo said:
wouldnt a RAID system be just as quick as SSD?
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No not in my experiance, I have a 60gb vertex 2 & RAID 10 on my PC at home and the SSD is quicker.

The RAID 10 is good for bigger files and transfers but is falls apart with the 4k stuff.

As said above I would not use an SSD for games or storage.
 
jimmy321 said:
If i'm working on Photoshop or Corel Draw for the day my SSD can save me lots of time, It paid for itself within a month.

I have a small SSD (60gb) on my gaming rig at home and it speeds it up quite a bit but I would never buy one for loading games or storing files.
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even when they start to get cheap?
it wasnt that long ago that HDD's cost as much per gigabyte
 
el Kuarlos said:
Yes you can do without one but they make quite a difference when you have your os on one.
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Absolutely agree. Spend a day using one, then go back to a system that doesn't. While others will disagree, to me the difference is night and day. If/when my current SSD dies, it will be replaced with another one.
 
my rig is as quiet as i could make it because it sits next to me, the last thing i wanna hear is a HDD spinning up so i went with SSD's :)
 
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