Ssd to ssd upgrade? Worth it?

[Sunburn74]

Hi. I have two 120gb vertex 3 ssds in raid 0 currently. I am not in any particular need for additional storage space.

I am however very tempted by some of the current sales prices on some Samsung ssds. I notice that in the last 4 years random read performance on some of these newer drives has almost tripled.

Will I see any real world improvement in PC responsiveness (I realize load times and etc will not change much) making their transition to a single Samsung 500gb evo drive? Or should I just sit tight with what I have?

Money is not a factor in this decision and neither am I in need of additional ssd space. I'm more just curious if my ssd from 2011 is essentially obsolete in this day and age and worth replacing.

 

[tweakboy]

You wont tell a difference,, except for benchmarks,, gl

 

[Coup27]

I think you will notice an increase in performance, although clearly it won't be like going from a HDD to an SSD. Looking at the AT bench for the two drives the 850 EVO 500GB has about double the 4k read speed of the Vertex 3 120GB.

 

[Blain]

Money is not a actor, nor do you "need" more storage space.
I would ditch that RAID 0 array in favor of a RAID 1 or even RAID 5 array with, say 3 x Kingston Kingston 240GB KC300 SSDs.

 

[Sunburn74]

Yes, 240gb on a boot drive is enough for me actually. I can easily afford even PCIE SSDs.

My major concern is that my drives are outdated and that modern SSDs compared to SSDs from 5 years ago will offer performance benefits, mostly in PC responsiveness.

Unfortunately, there is no benchmark out there for general PC responsiveness.

Why would you recommend going to RAID 1? I use a large conventional HD and run weekly backups which has been effective prophylaxis against data loss/system failure, etc. In fact, I've never actually had a problem with my raid-0 ssd setup honestly.

 

[Coup27]

Unfortunately, there is no benchmark out there for general PC responsiveness.

4k reads is the closest you'll get.

 

[bonehead123]

Well speaking from my experience yesterday.....

I switched/cloned my desktop machine (Xeon E3/R290/W10-Pro etc) from a 4 year old, 120GB Vertex 3 to a new 240gb ADATA Premier 550, and the difference is quite noticeable all around.

Everything from boot up, app launch, photoshopping, database work, file searching, and web browsing is way snappier.

I didn't really need that extra space per se, but the 240/256GB units have better read/write times overall, and I got a good Blk-Fr deal on them ($50).

And I am very happy I did . Now I am going to use the 2nd one for my lappy, which has an even older SSD/cpu etc and has been draggin lately....

but as always....YmMv !

 

[Stuka87]

I would ditch the RAID 0 just for piece of mind. One drive dies, you lose everything.

I am partial to enterprise grade SSD's for their reliability (Love my Intel 730s), but the majority of drives out today will be faster, and more reliable than what you have now.

 

[ronbo613]

I'd ditch the SSD RAID 0. Risk/reward not there. Get an SSD the size you need and call it a day. I went from a Samsung 830 120G to a Crucial MX100 250G to a Samsung 850EVO 250G. They are all good SSD drives and to be honest, I did not really see much, if any, performance difference between them in every day use.

 

[tweakboy]

You wont feel any difference,