SSD worth it or not

[King29]

I have a hybrid 2TB seagate drive which is meant to be an improvement over a standard spinner as it has a portion of solid state built in (or have I got that wrong?). Anyway the point is I have a CEX voucher and was thinking about getting a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 120GB.

My system could do with a format and reinstall so I might try an SSD. Since I keep the PC on 24/7 is it worth getting the SSD, Windows 10 and a couple of most played games will be installed on it, everything else is going on the spinner. I thought SSD drives just cut boot time from a cold boot?

[RhynoCZ]

SSD is always worth it, the speed and responsiveness is something you just can't get from a mechanical hard drive.

SSDs not only have shorter boot time, they also have waaaay shorter access times and if used for gaming, the loading times are going to be so short, that you won't be able to read the hints and stuff that's usually written on the loading screen to amuse you while you wait for your game to load.

Also, in games that require constant streaming of data, a SSD is a huge boost in the performance. A SSD even made GTA V playable on my Q6600 which is 10 years old. HDD just couldn't feed the system with assets quickly enough.
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[t121anf]

Agree it’s like going black once you do it you can’t go back....


Sorry for being racist.

[Howling Terror]

Other benefit is less heat.
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[doggone]

The 120GB won't have much space with Windows using half of it at least.
Depends what you have on. 250GB would be better.
It's debatable whether it's worth it unless doing demanding stuff like video rendering and photoshoping big files (or gaming?).
Those programs need more space to shunt stuff about.
I wouldn't get one only to speed boot times, but then I only reboot about once a month

[Courier265]

[M.C]

[Ayrton]

Worth it if you only want to speed up boot time and have a few select games that you want to load faster. 120GB should be fine for that purpose.
I've always preferred to get a HDD so I can have a lot more space for the same price though.

[Courier265]

[M.C]

[Shinigami]

tldr. SSDs are worth it /thread
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[M.C]

Might be just the scalpers left with stock inflating prices with that model. The new version of my drive's £80 240GB - £120 480GB.

[RhynoCZ]

[Going]

I have both the Samsung SSD Evo and Kingston V330 in my computer/s

In one computer, it has Linux on one SSD and Windows on another SSD for duel booting via BIOS. Don't notice any real world differences between them or the others PC's with SSD's. Against a 7200rpm HDD it's a big difference in speed. So worth it.

[thx1138]

do they have a limited life span?

[Howling Terror]

^^^Yeah they won't last like a HDD, so if you want long term storage, backup onto a hard drive which leaks data at a slower rate.

Upto 10 years for some SSDs.
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[Courier265]

SSD does have a limited life span, this is why it's not recommended to defrag your drive because after a certain amount of read/write cells will wear out and the drive size decreases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHp_IBbYYY&t=95s

goto 4 minutes and Linus mentions limited life span.

Do play the whole video, it does explain a few things.

[RhynoCZ]

Kingston SSD V300, 4 years in, the PC runs every single day for several hours and it's still going. The status check app says OK. The Kingston app even tells you the percentage of health and it now says SSD life remaining: 97%. Failures: none, Warnings: none.

On the flip side, I used a WD black (performance, 7200 rpm) HDD as my storage drive (not in permanent use) and it died after 7 years. I had a thread here on the BCF about it. I was reading a lot about HDD failures and general consensus is, we don't know what causes it (Google, nor Intel knows; they use a lot of HDDs in their data centers). I still have here one of my early HDDs, it's a 1999 IBM IDE 9.1GB drive and it still works. It's loud and slow, but still works.

When I got a replacement for the WD black, my thinking was maybe it failed because it was a ''performance'' part. So now I'm experimenting with a WD blue 1TB drive, which only spins at 5400 rpm. The usage is the same. When I don't require data from the storage, the drive is turned off. So, will see.
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[MarJay]

I have my OS on SSD's and then I have a spinning disk storage for the main storage.
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[bladerunner]

SSD is also a bonus if you use fast memory cards in cameras etc. My WD black ( pretty good for a HD ) can manage average 100Mbs but the ssd's mean I can download at twice that at least
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