Are SSDs worth it?

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Archer said:
No improvement whatsoever.
SSD = (blazing) fast load times for whatever is actually on the SSD. Thats it. Decide how important that is to you, and you'll know if you want a SSD or not
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Unless you count getting into BF3 maps before everyone else and having the pick of the equipment.
 
snail said:
Why don't you get a SSD cache drive? Store all your files on a normal hdd, but the SSD is used as a cache drive so you will have both speed and performance. I have ordered my 60GB SSD OCZ cache drive from esquire. Still waiting for it to arrive, however esquire from this forum said he has ordered 20 units.
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This is what I will be doing next will never buy another SSD again to store my Windows on, too much of a hassle.
 
Warrior said:
Makes it a bit faster..
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It makes it in no way faster that you'll ever notice, except perhaps in benchmarks that test maximum sequential read/write.

Running SSD's in RAID 0 will only increase your maximum sequential read & write performance, which is rather pointless since you're already at 500MB/s with a single one. 500MB/s is way more than a 1Gbps LAN port can handle.
The whole reason why SSD's increase your PC's performance so much is due to the incredibly low random seek times, because it has no mechanical components. Running SSD's in RAID will not decrease the seek time. At best you'll get the same seek time than with a single SSD.

There are certain server side applications that could make good use of running SSD's in RAID 0, such as massive databasis where you perform unindexed queries.

All you're going to notice is that you lost 2 SSD's worth of data once 1 SSD dies on you!
 
Perhaps I'll notice a speed difference while backing up my data over my 1gb network and to my usb3 external drive and playing games at the same time.
 
Warrior said:
Perhaps I'll notice a speed difference while backing up my data over my 1gb network and to my usb3 external drive and playing games at the same time.
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Wouldn't the external drive slow everything down?
 
Warrior said:
Perhaps I'll notice a speed difference while backing up my data over my 1gb network and to my usb3 external drive and playing games at the same time.
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Again, you won't really notice the difference.

1x SSD will already max out 1Gbps LAN or USB 3 portable HDD. HDD's are limited to 100MB/s in any case.

If you're running a server with like 10Gbps LAN connections, then I'd say it could be worth it :D
 
To be totally honest with you I do notice a huge difference in speed in my Windows to perform things since moving from a HDD to SSD.
 
NomNom said:
To be totally honest with you I do notice a huge difference in speed in my Windows to perform things since moving from a HDD to SSD.
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Yes.

Applications load faster, especially when you start multiple applications at the same time.
Searching (both for files and in the start menu) is also much much faster.

So if you're opening and closing applications the whole time, you'll definitely benefit from a SSD. If you keep applications open the whole time - like I do - then you'll benefit more from more RAM.
 
Pada said:
Again, you won't really notice the difference.

1x SSD will already max out 1Gbps LAN or USB 3 portable HDD. HDD's are limited to 100MB/s in any case.

If you're running a server with like 10Gbps LAN connections, then I'd say it could be worth it :D
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All I'm saying is I have noticed a difference. Once you try it you will see.
 
I have been convinced for a while but the one thing that I read that worried me was that you shouldn't put your swap space on your SSD. Some thing to do with the fact that there are a limited amounts of writes that you can do and having the swap space on the drive will reduce the life of the drive dramatically.
 
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