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Ssd to ssd upgrade? Worth it?

Sunburn74

Sunburn74

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My major concern is that my drives are outdated and that modern SSDs compared to SSDs from 5 years ago will offer performance benefits, mostly in PC responsiveness.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