Solid State vs Conventional HDDs

I really like the value proposition on the crucial m4's. Great speed and cost. The Vertex 3 is the best though, if you are willing to pay :)
 
Another important thing when buying an SSD is to make sure that it has Trim support. Trim just helps keeps your SSD fresh and responsive. A lot of earlier drives don't support Trim and they end up being very very slow. If i remember correctly the Kingston SSDs and the Samsung SSDs don't support Trim. Make sure you get one that has it, you don't want to spend all that and have a drive that is slower than the ones that you have now.
 
TBlaar said:
Thanks! I thought it would be faster, but I see very little people actually mentioning this when they speak about SSD drives, hence the question...
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SSD make a big difference in boot and loading times.
If you can keep your games on the ssd you will notice some drastic load time changes.
But as stated somewhere above the cost per gig is ridiculous.
You can try one of the hybrid drives,they are much bigger and a lot cheaper than normal ssd.
I got a 500gb seagate hybrid for just over 1k.
Running all my games and os on it! made a huge diff to boot times and game loading times.
Not as fast as a proper ssd but for the price and size i dont really mind!
 
Satarial said:
SSD make a big difference in boot and loading times.
If you can keep your games on the ssd you will notice some drastic load time changes.
But as stated somewhere above the cost per gig is ridiculous.
You can try one of the hybrid drives,they are much bigger and a lot cheaper than normal ssd.
I got a 500gb seagate hybrid for just over 1k.
Running all my games and os on it! made a huge diff to boot times and game loading times.
Not as fast as a proper ssd but for the price and size i dont really mind!
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To be honest those Hybrid drives are a waste of time. I have tried one and you cant compare the performance with an SSD. The hybrid drives are only slightly faster than the normal HDD. Don't waste your money on the hybrid. There is a new technology from Intel with the Z68 boards that you can take a SSD up to 60GB and link it to your normal HDD as a cache device. It improves the speed of your normal drive up by 60% so that is also a waste. The problem is for the first time you access the program etc. it has to be cached anyway. What is the point. I could be wrong!
 
You are right, it is caching, which means that it is like having 64GB of ram really. (in case you didn't know, you can run OSes off of ram too)

It isn't worth it, and I would much rather raid0 a few normal drives.
 
SSD drives are nice - only if you have the money
but rather spend the money on a better screen card.
 
czc said:
Just a question, those who say its not worth it, have you tried them?
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I have! They are not worth it! Like i said earlier 4 posts up. the performance difference between the normal and the hybrid drives are very little.
 
Just buy an SSD. If you already have a GTX 580 or whatever, while running a normal hard drive, you are bottle necking your pc. So just buy an SSD. Do it.

HYBRID DRIVES ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND ARE SHIT!! Don't even bother, seriously.
 
Kuga said:
Just buy an SSD. If you already have a GTX 580 or whatever, while running a normal hard drive, you are bottle necking your pc. So just buy an SSD. Do it.

HYBRID DRIVES ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND ARE SHIT!! Don't even bother, seriously.
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I have got 2x SSDs in RAID0 already.
 
The hybrid drives are nice for notebooks if you require more storage than ssd or can't afford the bigger drives but you want something faster than the normal drives.

However for a desktop SSD's are the way to go. In my opinion of course and I am wrong sometimes. :p
 
GreenAvitus said:
I'm getting an Intel 510 250 gb SSD soon,. Gonna power my laptop into the future. I hope
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why you want to get a Intel 510? The OCZ SSDs are faster. Also why do you want to put a R6000 piece of hardware in a laptop?(says me that spends a few pennies on my rig) If it was maybe an Alienware or ROG laptop with 2x HDD slots then you could get a 1TB normal drive and a 60GB OS drive. What do you use your laptop for?
 
Personally I would stick to good old HDD as the overall benefit is small in comparison to the price. Rather spend the money to upgrade tour RAM or Graphics card.
 
gillan said:
Personally I would stick to good old HDD as the overall benefit is small in comparison to the price. Rather spend the money to upgrade tour RAM or Graphics card.
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I guess you then have not seen what a SSD drive can do for performance on a PC? Its okay though. You did not know! It is worth the money. It was probably the biggest performance difference i have seen on my old rig. Also another reason i am going to buy 2x OCZ Vertex3 SSDs for Raid0 in October. But like i said you did not know, its not your fault.
 
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gillan said:
Personally I would stick to good old HDD as the overall benefit is small in comparison to the price. Rather spend the money to upgrade tour RAM or Graphics card.
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Thats why I asked the people saying SSD's are not worth it. Have you used one?
 
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