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Anyone else "addicted" to buying SSDs? SSD "Connoisseurs"?

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dave_the_nerd said:
I don't know about "addicted." But I refuse to buy anything else for a workstation. (My server is still all spinners.)

I did replace the ssds in my desktop with larger ones. (And went from TLC to MLC in the bargain.) But my purchases are still strictly value segment, so I don't really consider myself a connoisseur.
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Are we the same???

I just went from 250 GB 840 non-pro-non-evo (TLC) to a 1 TB Mushkin Reactor (MLC) as well. It's a good thing. 😀
 
Same addiction. Here's a picture I took a couple years ago of all the SSD's put into family and friend's boxes.

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i can't even begin to count the SSDs i've had. i've given away dozens alone to friends, family and even forum members. luckily they're freebies or my wife would be quite upset!
 
It should be noted that I no longer have all of the SSDs in the OP. As nanaki mentioned, I too have given / sold quite a few of them off as well. I probably only have half as many as I listed still in stock.
 
Good Lord!

I've only ever bought one SSD, the one in my main PC. Never felt any need to get another one.

I have, though, bought quite a few multi-terabyte external hard-drives, and a lot of sdxc cards. I guess I favour capacity or portability over speed.
 
pmv said:
Good Lord!

I've only ever bought one SSD, the one in my main PC. Never felt any need to get another one.

I have, though, bought quite a few multi-terabyte external hard-drives, and a lot of sdxc cards. I guess I favour capacity or portability over speed.
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Perhaps it has to do with how many desktops you have and maintain. I have six desktops and a laptop. Eventually, to keep my fam-damn-ily's computers running and maintained, I just take it upon my self to subsidize their SSDs. But that works out to less than $100 per machine -- two other machines used by the fam-damn-ily.

Choosing the right size could be a dilemma. I'd obviously held back on buying a 1TB SSD because of the prices and because I need less than half that space for a boot-system disk including software installs. So that leaves me about 200-250GB of free space on the boot-volume for each of my two favorite workstations. If I saw the free space on such a volume shrink to <=30%, I'd consider buying another SSD. But I still might not buy a 1TB SSD, since I can just as easily add another of the same size.

You can spend a lot of money on this stuff if it's sort of a hobby or pastime. You want this or that computer to approach a sort of perfect use and allocation of resources. But you may find it helpful to look at least-cost upgrades, if only incremental ones.
 
My first SSD was a 60GB OCZ Vertex 2, one of the ones that shockingly was not destined to brick itself or otherwise fail on me despite all the controversy over Sandforce controllers. I bought it in January of 2011 and it kept on going without reinstalls or reformats until November last year. Trying to keep enough space free on it practically became a full time job though, no end to windows bloat and programs spamming temp files all over the place. At some point I gave up and ended up with <1GB free space for months at a time, it was a constant war of attrition against temp files....I remember downloading a New Vegas mod onto the system HDD and trying to extract it, try as I might I could not convince the damn thing to extract anywhere other than some obscure folder nested deep in Appdata or somewhere like that. I also sang with joy when Spotify released an update that removed the option to have the cache on anything other than the primary drive. Yes, they didn't not have that option to begin with, they had it for literally years and then removed it with no warning whatsover and took their sweet time putting it back it. Ugh, never again. The worst thing is a clean windows 7 install on a 60GB drive leaves so much free at the start, but then I never thought I'd still be using the system or that drive 5 years later. Remarkably that SSD is still going as I done a clean install as I gave the system away.

Now on a 250GB 850 Evo which seemed stupendously spacious compared to that Evo. I'm eyeing up another 250GB drive for the family laptop as it could really use the upgrade.
 
Come on VL, you have to resist it!

With that huge stockpile of fancy disks, I'm sure you have assigned a separate disk for the internet cache.
 
I have several SSD's. Intel pro being my latest and honestly not for sure if I would even notice a difference if I upgraded. I suppose it's not necessary to even think about it, what I need to do is upgrade my ram, i'm at 8 gig but should probably get 16 gigs.
 
Dunno about "addicted," but I've bought my last spinner. I boot from a ridiculously fast 500GB 850 EVO I got for $135. At today's prices, I can't see the reason for investing any longer in 20th century technology, even for archival purposes. I even have a 256GB MX100 I can't think of what to do with 😉
 
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Love SSDs. Gonna check through my newegg orders. Love the competition less we end up like the HDD manufacturers!

Started with the 80GB Intel X25M-G2 that one that started mainstreaming it all!

I've only ever had 1 SSD RMA and it was a Sandisk Ultra 1

Just upgraded my skylake system from 128GB 830 to m.2 and feel almost no difference. Those 830s really rock!


120GB OCZ Agility 3
90GB OCZ Vertex 2
240GB OCZ Vertex 450
240GB OCZ Arc 100

X18-M G2 80GB

240GB Crucial M4
960GB Crucial M500
480GB Crucial M500
240GB Crucial M550
240GB Crucial MX100

240GB PNY CS1200
240GB PNY CS2211
240GB PNY CS1311
120GB PNY XLR8 PRO
120GB PNY Prevail
240GB PNY Optima

64GB Sandisk X100 m.2
120GB Sandisk SSD PLUS
120GB Sandisk SSD (one of the slowest out there!)
960GB Sandisk Ultra II
128GB Sandisk Ultra
512GB Sandisk A100 M.2 AHCI PCI-E

120GB Kingston V300
120GB Kingston HyperX
240GB Faspeed
120GB Corsair Force LS
256GB ADATA Premier Pro SP900
256GB Plextor m5m msata
128GB Plextor M3

500GB Samsung 850 Evo
256GB Samsung 840 Pro
128GB Samsung 840
128GB Samsung 830
128GB Samsung PM830 msata
256GB Samsung msata
 
I'm not a junkie like you guys, but the fact is I have four SSDs and only three PCs.

So I already have a spare SSD, but I have visited my preferred store just some hours ago, and I was browsing the SSDs. What for? 😱
 
My lone workstation spinner is a WD Black 640 and I'm ready to replace it with an SSD. Hate hearing it spin up. I use it for downloading/ripping and converting large files, etc. Will replace it with a 512 or 1TB SSD and shuffle it off into my home server for a few more GB of storage.
 
Celeron/Pentiums and SSD's, you're on drugs Larry.

I count only 4 SSD's in my household, one of them is a 6 year old 80GB Intel X25-M still kicking. But about to buy a 480/500GB one soon with the massive price drop recently.
 
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TeknoBug said:
Celeron/Pentiums and SSD's, you're on drugs Larry.
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LOL. Too much caffeine, maybe.

I count only 4 SSD's in my household, one of them is a 6 year old 80GB Intel X25-M still kicking. But about to buy a 480/500GB one soon with the massive price drop recently.
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Check out the 480GB PNY CS1211 for $99.99 FS @ Newegg ShellShocker
 
Just ordered two 240GB ADATA SP550, one for my brothers GFs new desktop, another for my mom's new laptop.

Don't really expect too much out of them for $54 each.
 
TeknoBug said:
Celeron/Pentiums and SSD's, you're on drugs Larry.

I count only 4 SSD's in my household, one of them is a 6 year old 80GB Intel X25-M still kicking. But about to buy a 480/500GB one soon with the massive price drop recently.
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bro,

Celeron/Pentium+SSD= Wise decision 😎
 
mnewsham said:
Just ordered two 240GB ADATA SP550, one for my brothers GFs new desktop, another for my mom's new laptop.

Don't really expect too much out of them for $54 each.
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Well I ordered these yesterday around 1:30PM. Shipped out last night, arrived at the local Fedex center around 4AM. Out for Delivery today.

Not bad for eggsaver shipping and no rush processing.
 
I don't really have an addiction to SSD's but I have preference and bias for controllers and NAND memory used. I generally won't consider TLC NAND and prefer Toggle or V-NAND MLC over asynchronous/synchronous NAND. I still think that the SF-2281 with Toggle NAND (Toshiba) was one of the best controllers and NAND MLC of it's time.
 
The truth is (as I see it) today's SSDs, along with the RAM, processors, and vidcards provide us with desktops that truly are fast. It used to be upgrading a component was just moving the bottleneck around, but now they are all silly fast, and Win10 is the first OS I've used that can not only take advantage of today's hardware, but MS is making a real effort to stay abreast of it. I keep expecting my system to slow down, but it hasn't. This is a great time to have a PC.
 
I Love SSD's

2x Samsung 840 evo
3x Samsung 850 ev0
2x Kingston SV300
1x Ada SX 900
1x Sandisk Ultra II

and I don't think i am done yet 🙂
 
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