SSD worth it?

bromster said:
Asus Sabertooth Z77
i5 3570k
16gb Gskill DDR3-1866
Asus GTX670

I have no problem with my current windows loading time. My question is, are there any other benefits that might make a SSD worthwhile?
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The best benefit overall by far is that it's solid state. Which means nothing for a desktop, but for laptops and potentially portable drives it makes a huge difference. Your laptop is now safe from mechanical faults. No HDD head crashes when you bump or take your notebook around with you while it's switched on.

I guess you could also bump your desktop by mistake.
 
An ssddrive wouldnt make a significant time in boot loading expect to cut 10s off
 
imranpanji said:
Dunno where you getting yr information from, but its wrong
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sad part is when my buddy tells me on teamspeak wait I am just gonna restart..... before I can say ok he is back :cry:
 
Thanks for all the replies. I think for my situation, a small 60gb-120gb will be fine just to run the OS. Then I think I'll wait for the prices to drop before I buy a higher capacity SSD for programs and games.

Any deals going around at the moment?
 
Mystic Twilight said:
I would not suggest VM's to be installed on SSD's if the VM's have to rewrite entire images instead of recording delta data, you will burn through your read/write memory cell MTBF prematurely extremely fast.
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When exactly does this happen?

1) make vm
2) copy over the vm to ssd
3) use vm

That's it... where is the (repetitive) "rewrite image" part ?
 
+1 Blind Faith.

I also don't know where they got that information from that the VM would write more to the SSD than the host OS. Perhaps it would do that if you assign too little RAM to the guest OS, so that it starts writing to swap.
 
kripstoe said:
Ok, so it's not just me wondering why a VM would shorten a SSD lifespan. :rolleyes:
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To you all wondering the above.

SSDs are perfect for VM software due to faster write speeds. However I advise the strain to be focused on more ram or flash drives if you concerned about the health of the SSD.

Couple notes to point out that when you running VM, through Windows your writes aren't heavy and what Windows is mostly doing is write logging.

So the idea that VM installation and usage on an SSD is detrimental is bull****.
 
If you dont mind having your programs and games on a non OS drive then get one (they fill up quite quick if you want games/ programs on the SSD).

I must have OS/Games/Programs on the same drive...OCD
 
6 seconds to restart and cold boot to desktop too...
Speaks for itself, any SSD owner will recommend it!

General multitasking and opening apps is much faster, I get frustrated with normal hdd speeds now..
 
LinuxMan said:
6 seconds to restart and cold boot to desktop too...
Speaks for itself, any SSD owner will recommend it!

General multitasking and opening apps is much faster, I get frustrated with normal hdd speeds now..
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My notebook - Core i7 Ivy - had a Vertex 2 128GB in it as primary and rocked. One morning it was dead as a door nail (known issues with the V2). I always have image backups run every Sun night so it was not an issue to get the original HDD, restore the image and back to work in about 2 hours. I was shocked at the degradation in overall system performance on the HDD. It was SLOWWWWWWWW. Terrible to use.

The up side of this was the Vertex 2 got collected by Sybaritic, and a week later a Vertex 3 returned back to me :) Both the Vertex 3 and 4 I have are solid as a rock.
 
Quick question. I'm new to SSD's. If I want to put this into my tower, is there an adapter to make it 3.5"?
 
Mike Smit said:
My notebook - Core i7 Ivy - had a Vertex 2 128GB in it as primary and rocked. One morning it was dead as a door nail (known issues with the V2). I always have image backups run every Sun night so it was not an issue to get the original HDD, restore the image and back to work in about 2 hours. I was shocked at the degradation in overall system performance on the HDD. It was SLOWWWWWWWW. Terrible to use.

The up side of this was the Vertex 2 got collected by Sybaritic, and a week later a Vertex 3 returned back to me :) Both the Vertex 3 and 4 I have are solid as a rock.
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If you didn't have a recent backup what's the likelihood of recovering data from a failed SSD compared to an HDD?
 
peeryus said:
Quick question. I'm new to SSD's. If I want to put this into my tower, is there an adapter to make it 3.5"?
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Vantec HDA-252P @ R52

Many walk-in stores should have a similar accessory, but yes, they are out there. Some SSD brands like ADATA and Kingston have a bundle which includes the 3.5" adapter as well.

bwana said:
If you didn't have a recent backup what's the likelihood of recovering data from a failed SSD compared to an HDD?
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Your answer lies here, courtesy of Southbit. There is a chance, but it's going to be expensive.
 
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