Chipset's and SSD's

[Brado78]

I am going to buy a new board in the new year, I am looking at a H170 chip set. Do chip sets have any influence on SSD performance?

Thanks Guys 😀

 

[UsandThem]

A board with the H170 chipset will have Intel SATA ports, and then almost always a couple SATA controlled by a 3rd party (Asmedia, ect).

You just want to make sure to plug your SSD into one of the Intel connectors for the best performance. The motherboard manual will show you which are which.

 

[Brado78]

Ok then, 😀 I don't game My PC is mostly an entertainment center a PVR if you will, I kind of want a Samsung 960 evo but I think they are WWAAAYYY overkill..:/

 

[UsandThem]

Ok then, 😀 I don't game My PC is mostly an entertainment center a PVR if you will, I kind of want a Samsung 960 evo but I think they are WWAAAYYY overkill..:/

Yeah, you already asked that question in another thread I responded to. It's a huge waste for the use you mentioned in your last post. There is zero need to put an expensive, high-performance PCIe drive in a "PVR" to record and play back shows/video.

In fact, if you are going to be constantly writing video to the drive, you will be much better off buying a traditional hard drive. That's because regular hard drive's life is measured in MTBF (mean time between failures). They are usually somewhere like 1.5 million hours. A SSD's life is measured by TBW (terabytes written). The most common range for that is roughly 200TB - 400TB. If you are writing a lot large video files to it all the time, you will reach that very quickly. Many SSDs will go well past that amount, but at least you know the potential downfalls now.

Also, when you say "SSD", people generally think you are talking about a standard SATA drive (like a 850 EVO).

 

[Brado78]

I have had a WD black but it was soo loud

 

[UsandThem]

I have had a WD black but it was soo loud

If it's too loud, you can always get a quieter 5400 RPM Blue model, or a cheap SSD. You don't need a 960 EVO to record audio/video.