• Week in Tech: SSD Update. Just Buy One
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I have one in my laptop but I'll only get one for my main PC when I can buy 1 TB at a reasonable price.
[QUOTE=Zero Vector;42869940]Why so many disagrees on this post? (I thought) the 840 is great(?)[/QUOTE] It's amazing. It's best on market (IMHO). IF you're talking about the Pro or EVO series. The standard 840's are meh.
[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;42877293]It's amazing. It's best on market (IMHO). IF you're talking about the Pro or EVO series. The standard 840's are meh.[/QUOTE] there's no subjectivity here. it's hardware, not art. it's either the best or it isn't, and it isn't.
[QUOTE=Spectre1406;42869752]Aren't SSDs basically HDD with better performance or am I missing a thing or two here?[/QUOTE] Imagine if your entire hard drive is literally all just non-volatile RAM it's really good it's like switching from a Walkman to an iPod
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42869951]Better performing, no noise or vibrations, and you can't break them from shock damage.[/QUOTE] What about heat? Is it the same or less?
[QUOTE=Spectre1406;42879841]What about heat? Is it the same or less?[/QUOTE] Much less heat since there are no moving parts, saves you a bit on energy bills
My laptop I bought about a year and a bit ago (HP Folio 13) uses a SSD and it's wonderful. Only downside is that it's only 100gb or something ridiculously small probably cause of the price. I mostly use it for Uni and all my music is on Spotify and videos are on my external HDD so it's been alright for me so far. Next laptop I buy though I am definitely getting a SSD again, hopefully with a bigger memory. I might actually go for a Samsung laptop next time, I'm falling in love with Samsung products after buying one of their printers and my god it was the greatest thing to interact with in the world of printers. Not a single fault with it and it actually connects to everything.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/5jNNN.png[/IMG] I bought a SSD and moved everything including system cache into my rambox. Best decision of my life everything runs super fast now and my windows starts up in 10secs
I bought a 128GB Intel SSD for my desktop about a year ago and I don't regret it one bit. I heavily recommend it to absolutely anyone.
my windows starts after 2-3 seconds with all startup programs running after the bootstrap loader starts loading windows
I guess I know what to buy for my build, thanks for making it clear.
[QUOTE=Rethill34;42865642]SSDs are ridiculously expensive. I don't think I'll get one for another 3 or 4 years because of how much they cost, I'd rather have a decently sized hdd first.[/QUOTE] get both?? I have an SSD only for the OS and some programs, and then I have like 4 regular hdd's with loadsafiles
I highly recommend getting a SSD with low storage for cheap just to put the OS and any high-use applications and games on
I like SSD's, but they're nearly $1/Gb and I can get a 1TB HDD for $80. In a few years I'll probably grab a 256gb SSD, but until then I'll probably just grab a 60Gb one to throw the OS on or something
[QUOTE=voltlight;42864735]The main reason I haven't looked into SSDs is due to the life span. Anyone know if they've improved on all that yet? If it had say, a 6 year life span, I'd buy one for sure, but they're reportedly not that great.[/QUOTE] I've been using my SSD for 2 years (for the Windows partition + Page file, which does a lot of writes) and according to the SMART stats I haven't even started to use up the "limited writes" of my SSD: [img]http://puu.sh/5k3Ky.png[/img]
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