Why you should buy an SSD (MyGaming)

[mybb.bot]

SSD prices are dropping, it’s about time you got one

Why you should buy an SSD

 

[HerZeLeiD]

SSD prices are dropping, it’s about time you got one

Why you should buy an SSD

It's useless to most people unless there is a very specific reason you need it. As a gamer even, I don't see the advantage in my games loading a bit faster. Once in the game, meh. For people having extra cash lying around. Uber nerds love to make a fuss of these things. I would care less if my app opens 5 seconds faster on SSD. Again, unless you need it for a specific reason.

 

[Freaksta]

It's useless to most people unless there is a very specific reason you need it. As a gamer even, I don't see the advantage in my games loading a bit faster. Once in the game, meh. For people having extra cash lying around. Uber nerds love to make a fuss of these things. I would care less if my app opens 5 seconds faster on SSD. Again, unless you need it for a specific reason.

While others say it is the most noticeable improvement one can do to a computer if you have relativity good other hardware... Ive been wanting to get one for quite some time but i still think the prices are still a little high... Plus i need some 3TB drives for my server which would take preference over SSD since windows works on a normal drive

 

[PhireSide]

I bought an SSD the other day to replace my dying (possibly dead by now) 80GB SATA HDD. It was the older generation Seagates that run at 1.5Gbps so it was quite a big change to go the non-mechanical route.

Less noise, I got rid of a very annoying vibration rattle in my case and the near-instant boot times and application launches are really awesome. I would say that even with an entry level one as the one I bought (OCZ Agility 3) it was money well spent

Horses for courses though - it won't be everyone's cup of tea but if you can afford to make the move and don't worry too much about the capacity by all means go for it

 

[4cer]

if i use a computer without an SSD, i think it has something wrong with it that it is going so slow.

One warning is.. if you go SSD, you can never go back to not having one.

 

[Creag]

if i use a computer without an SSD, i think it has something wrong with it that it is going so slow.

One warning is.. if you go SSD, you can never go back to not having one.

This is what I was thinking. Once you've lived in the best, you can never go back. And that is the dilemma.

What about for non gaming purposes, e.g. for working spreadsheets and larger documents?

 

[|tera|]

Wow, prices really came down.

This is actually flipping affordable now: http://www.rebeltech.co.za/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4976

 

[Timber_MG]

If you do productivity work on an SSD based system the difference is huge. The other alternative is a large capacity high speed system drive that is almost completely empty (effectively short-stroked). Boot times, working in complex spreadsheets and anything to do with database development is an absolute revelation and once you go there, it's tough to go back.

I had a system vendor do a deployment on a SSD primary booted system (Intel X25, though slightly older with excellent IOP performance) and a database (MSSQL Server) operation that they thought would run for 10-15 minutes completed in a bout 2 seconds flat...they checked the logs to verify that the operation completed successfully.

 

[HerZeLeiD]

if i use a computer without an SSD, i think it has something wrong with it that it is going so slow.

One warning is.. if you go SSD, you can never go back to not having one.

For most people, it's actually hard to take someone seriously that uses a 37" for their desktop PC. Best change that. Makes a world of difference.

Also, you sound 16.

 

[CoolBug]

I'll be putting one of those 120's in my laptop pretty soon, helps when you have 2 hard drives slots though.

I cant wait actually.

 

[Timber_MG]

For most people, it's actually hard to take someone seriously that uses a 37" for their desktop PC. Best change that. Makes a world of difference.

Also, you sound 16.

Is this kind of discourse accepted on these forums?


I can heartily concur that an SSD makes a PC very responsive. I upgraded a laptop last week that went from power on to Windows ready for action in about half the time (with none of that Windows slowness just after log-in) and financial packages responsiveness went from slightly laggy to instant. User did not notice AVG anti-virus run in the background whereas before it made her (CFO) PC unresponsive to the point of her cancelling the operation regularly.

That process makes me itch for a small capacity OCZ Agility drive for myself with which to replace a short-stroked 7200rpm system drive (1TB WD Black drive with a 50GB boot partition).

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

It's useless to most people unless there is a very specific reason you need it. As a gamer even, I don't see the advantage in my games loading a bit faster. Once in the game, meh. For people having extra cash lying around. Uber nerds love to make a fuss of these things. I would care less if my app opens 5 seconds faster on SSD. Again, unless you need it for a specific reason.

The answer is at the end of that article ....

You need to experience one first

At this point in time, everyone who has an SSD is attending a performance party – one that you’re not invited to. Rather than joining in the fun, you have to sit by and listen to, “you had to have been there” as they describe just how great this party is.

No amount of convincing can fully prepare you for the speed increases an SSD OS drive will bring, and that’s not where it ends. If you’re disappointed at the performance increases, go back to using a standard hard drive for your operating system after a few weeks of SSD goodness, you’ll start saving for your next upgrade then and there.

 

[Nerfherder]

Hard drives have always been the slowest thing on any machine.

I have never experiences a performance jump like I did when I got an SSD. Usually I have to play a game to really see where my money has gone....

You really will see a marked improvement on every task you do.

 

[Reaper84]

I have been rocking an SSD for a while now and have recently gone from an Agility 3 to a Vertex 4 and even that has a decent speed boost.

All the guys saying you dont need one just don't get it

 

[CoolBug]

I'm also considering buying another seagate 500gb hybrid with the 4gb ssd, then raiding them.

Apparently this way I can almost get ssd speeds while still having 1tb of space.

I will have to then start doing backups.

 

[Rickster]

To be honest I think the ratio of Storage to Price is just not worth it, and if you have big games such as Max Payne 3 which is 23GB~ and BF3 16GB~ the SSD will get full very quickly.

But I would like to add that since the upgrade from 4GB DDR2 MHz to 16GB DDR3 MHz the load times in MP/SP games (COD,BF3 ect) has decreased dramatically so there is no need for a SSD setup.

 

[Timber_MG]

Horses for courses. The responsiveness in productivity applications, IOP intensive apps and fast start-up times make it worth while for me.

16GB RAM is nice to have.

Mechanical hard drives are still good i.t.o performance/rand for sequential read and large capacity storage. Running a proper Defrag (MyDefrag Optimize Monthly) on your drive and keeping data where performance matters on earlier sectors of a drive speeds up such operations.

Random access and short queue depths is where mechanical hard drives suck, often being around 50-100 IOPS where even faily priced SSDs outperform that by a factor of 1000 these days.