Why the large SSDs now? Not just for OS & programs?

Plus the other thing is, if you have more then your OS and programs on 1 drive, backing up the drive makes it harder.. thats the main reason I have my games,music and rubbish on a separate drive.
 
Another option for those sitting on smaller ssd's would be to try primocache, its designed for other purposes aswell but i find it brilliant to just set it as my lvl2 cache for two 2gb mech's.
I have a 120 samsung as main os and a second as cache drive to my 2 mechs for gaming and editing. It will cache the most used programs shifting out the stuff not used as often if your cache fills. I use it set to read optimise im not worried about writing as i send my encode to my main ssd, as its mainly empty.

A word of warning as i guess most enthusuasts are speed demons, you can use write delay to give impressive bench results but this will increase the chances if not using a UPS of data corruption on a power failure, i dont use this at all.

It works very well for me, in battlefield even on map change im usually waiting on a 7 second timer before the game starts. I find BF4 on a mech drive only totally frustrating the load times are intolerable for me anyway there is without any doubt a longer load time in that game if not using an ssd.

I find it useful as i can change / upgrade my mech drives and the software will rebuild the cache and away i go, it does take time to rebuild with your usage ill admit.

One of the downsides i found was that if your rig isnt 100% stable and you blue screen it will have to rebuild the cache again. I have a secondary machine my daughter uses when she pops round and that would occasionsally error. Other than that the cache is permanent i dont think it was on earlier versions infact im pretty sure it wasnt as i stopped using it as for my use it wasted time rebuilding the cache on every shutdown

Website is here have a read on first before trying http://http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/
 
When I had 60GB SSDs, it was only just enough for Windows/Prog Files and a couple of games. Then went to 120GB which allowed more games to be installed and now have a 240GB which means I can keep all games installed I want to play :)
 
I have just 5gb free space on a 60gb corsair gt,it doesn't slow down

ssd's also have a few gb reserved hidden for drive maintainance so filling it up shouldn't be an issue

it comes down to how well the controller is at managing the drive
 
all my games are 1.6TB.......I think I need to stop playing so many free MMOs.......Secret World is 45gb, Tera 34gb, Rift 22gb, wow 40gb, Aion 27gb, and most new steam games are 15-40gb now. My now lower download speeds mean I try to keep everything installed plus adding and removing large amounts of GB on SSDs wears the life down. I'd ideally like a couple of 960gb M500s in Raid 0 so I'm waiting until they are in final clearance for £250 before buying.
 
I run two 840 Evos 250gb for OS and games, and a Crucial m500 240gb as a scheduled backup drive for documents, pics, vids etc.

250GB is really the minimum I would ever tolerate, I also use my machine for movies and TV shows so it evaporated almost instantly once you chuck OS and games into the picture.

A world gone mad worrying about wearing out the SSD - use it, enjoy it, when it breaks replace it - its got years of writing life in it. If any files are that valuable, you would have a backup.

Always seemed crazy to me to buy a super rapid drive, and then run all your games and files on a mechanical drive - great you can boot in 5 seconds but you're still 15 seconds behind everyone each map change.

I get the impression some people think more about there hardware breaking and wearing out than actually using and enjoying it. We're overclockers - hardware sympathy are for the normals. :D

-Andy
 
Juggern said:
I run two 840 Evos 250gb for OS and games, and a Crucial m500 240gb as a scheduled backup drive for documents, pics, vids etc.

250GB is really the minimum I would ever tolerate, I also use my machine for movies and TV shows so it evaporated almost instantly once you chuck OS and games into the picture.

A world gone mad worrying about wearing out the SSD - use it, enjoy it, when it breaks replace it - its got years of writing life in it. If any files are that valuable, you would have a backup.

Always seemed crazy to me to buy a super rapid drive, and then run all your games and files on a mechanical drive - great you can boot in 5 seconds but you're still 15 seconds behind everyone each map change.

I get the impression some people think more about there hardware breaking and wearing out than actually using and enjoying it. We're overclockers - hardware sympathy are for the normals. :D

-Andy
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+1. Enjoy it, its replaceable, and so is most of the stuff that would be on it.

Im running a 265GB 840 Pro which is filling up with games and programs and im now looking at the 480GB Crucial M500 to become my steam drive + programs.

Booting into the OS quick is fine, but once that time is gone, you dont want to go back to the slow loading speeds for everything else. You're going to want speed throughout the whole of your system.
 
120Gb Samsung EVO = Win8.1 + Apps
3Tb WD SATA3 = Music + Apps Backup/Images
4Tb WD SATA3 = Movies

I dont see the point in SSD Drives bigger than 120Gb if your not a gamer. With loads of apps and Win8.1 i still have 80Gb remaining....
 
Well when im not gaming, and doing some editing work on C4D or AE. The load times on the programs and content (plugins etc.) are blazingly fast, increasing productivity as well.
 
I might get a 60Gb SSD to use purely as a download dump so the extracting files is speeded up because at the moment my download dump is on a mechanical drive
 
billysielu said:
if you install a few games you'll easily fill a 120GB

250GB makes things a lot easier

I guess you'd really be installing a lot to need more.
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Esp now that some Steam games are 40gb each, 120 is just too small.

I'm looking at the 250GB EVO, but not sure whether to get that or one of the M550s, etc.
 
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