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I know i'm preaching, but you should upgrade your hard drive.

Kroze

Kroze

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😎 This is about 5x faster than a mechanical hard drive in terms of reading & writing. Access time is ridiculously low 100x

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I bought a 128gb ssd a couple months ago and use it for my os and programs, and have 2 regular hdd's for storage. I wasn't really expecting a whole lot out of it but I was pleasantly surprised. If you don't yet have one I would recommend it. Probably the best bang for your buck upgrade you can make.
 
Kroze said:
😎 This is about 5x faster than a mechanical hard drive in terms of reading & writing. Access time is ridiculously low 100x

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How much storage, compared to cost?


You can't entirely replace HDDs - it's not practical.

If you hardly do anything with a computer, actually, you can. If you actually like to store anything, and install anything - well, those who need storage space know what they need.


I have a 256GB SSD for the OS, some apps, some games.
I also have over 2TB of HDD storage space as well (some in a RAID 0 volume, some in a RAID 1 volume). More games, downloads, documents, photos, etc... go on there.


Also - you still have to be careful with SSDs. You shouldn't keep them full or even close to it, as that limits the ability of TRIM and helps lead to faster degradation of memory cells. Especially if it's your only drive, or if it's your boot drive but you haven't configured anything deeper - you'll have caches and temporary storage on there, and that eats up precious write cycles. Will you kill it in a year? Highly unlikely. Will you kill it in five years? Borderline to likely if you are a heavy user without precaution. Can you make SSDs last over 10 years? Sure... possibly.

They have great use, but it shouldn't be for critical storage. Waste of money to use them for storage, for one thing. Documents and files usually aren't large enough to create slow loading - and in those cases, critically important large files are probably part of a production environment, and such files should be on nothing less than a RAID 5 storage solution. Even better, RAID 5 or higher on 10k SAS drives. 😀
It won't be SSD speed, but with the right SAS controller and HDDs, a good RAID configuration can get you close enough to make working with those files impossible to tell the difference. The main loading issues most of us experience are the applications themselves, which is a great use for SSD.
 
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I'm going to need 1 terabyte drives for ~$250 before I switch. I can't stand the idea of some of my stuff being on the fast drive while some of it sits on the slow drives. I know it'll always end up being the stuff that I want to access all the time that's on the slow drives, and I'm not going to want to spend a lot of time playing digital musical chairs with my data just to let it all have it's turn on the SSD. When I switch, I'm going all or nothing. Too expensive to do that right now.
 
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SlitheryDee said:
I'm going to need 1 terabyte drives for ~$250 before I switch. I can't stand the idea of some of my stuff being on the fast drive while some of it sits on the slow drives. I know it'll always end up being the stuff that I want to access all the time that's on the slow drives, and I'm not going to want to spend a lot of time playing digital musical chairs with my data just to let it all have it's turn on the SSD. When I switch, I'm going all or nothing. Too expensive to do that right now.
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In 10 years the price will probably drop that low...by then you`ll be out of Jr High School...hehehee
 
Don't need 500MB/s and 0.15ms to stream MP3's and movies from a drive. HDD+SSD makes more sense than 2TB of SSD storage..
 
SlitheryDee said:
I'm going to need 1 terabyte drives for ~$250 before I switch. I can't stand the idea of some of my stuff being on the fast drive while some of it sits on the slow drives. I know it'll always end up being the stuff that I want to access all the time that's on the slow drives, and I'm not going to want to spend a lot of time playing digital musical chairs with my data just to let it all have it's turn on the SSD. When I switch, I'm going all or nothing. Too expensive to do that right now.
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you have no idea what SSD is good for. it's good for the OS and applications. using it for data is a waste.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I'm going to need 1 terabyte drives for ~$250 before I switch. I can't stand the idea of some of my stuff being on the fast drive while some of it sits on the slow drives. I know it'll always end up being the stuff that I want to access all the time that's on the slow drives, and I'm not going to want to spend a lot of time playing digital musical chairs with my data just to let it all have it's turn on the SSD. When I switch, I'm going all or nothing. Too expensive to do that right now.
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That wouldn't be that hard. Just park all content (music, movies/videos, pics, etc) on the HDD and put apps/programs and things you need fast access to on the SSD. Hell at this point the smart thing would be to have a network storage for content streaming so you can access it from whatever your device easily.

I'm sure there's even tools that can automatically move things if they haven't been used for a while too.
 
I used to upgrade very often. I would simply wait for hard drives with twice the capacity to cost what my old one did. The dollar amount I picked was $130 and that worked out quite nicely. 40GB to 80GB and so on. Then there was a massive drop in prices and I picked up a bunch of 2TB drives for $79.

The problem now is that a couple years later those same 2TB drives still cost more than what I bought them at. 4TB drives are still not at the $130 range if I wanted to revert to that level. Prices have simply been inflated and stuck there. What is the point of buying a $180 4TB drive when I am fine with the space I have and it cost me less?

Then to make matters even worse the first SSD I bought was the HIGHLY recommended Vertex 2 by OCZ. Everyone on here was recommending it. Problem was that the drive was complete garbage. That has made me very wary of SSD drives. Buying an 840 EVO here shortly and hope it actually impresses me.
 
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Using a computer with a mechanical hard drive is terrible after getting used to an SSD.
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Preach. Had to fix grandma's computer I could make coffee drink it and piss it out in the time her computer rebooted, or anything.However putting in an SSD means she would fill that drive by the time I walked out the door.
 
I barely noticed a difference switching to a SSD. It wasn't until I actually went back to a mechanical drive that I could spot what had changed. I got over it in about 5 minutes.

I really hope they're more impressive now. The only reason I'm getting one is because my Raptor is so old.
 
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