Thinking about upgrading my Sammy 830..

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...and after reading the review here on the Sandisk Extreme Pro, I wonder, does anyone have one of these yet, and are they all that? My system is about 2 yrs. old (890FX) running 16GB of DDR3 and a Phenom II X6 1090T, all stock. Am I likely to see significant performance bumps in productivity apps, browsing, image processing and the like? I'd probably get the 240GB version, as a boot drive (Win7 Ultimate 64-bit) that also runs my major apps (Office, Photoshop, etc.). Worth it? The article talks a bit about storage solutions on the horizon, but these may need a complete rebuild to match the technology, so I guess I'm looking for a short term solution that won't break the bank. Thanks.
 
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G73S said:
read what everyone said here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2387669

if you upgrade, only upgrade to a larger SSD, performance wise they're all fast as heck for you to even notice a difference
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Right. I want to believe that a new drive will give me something I'm lacking (whatever the heck that is), but really, it's just technolust. I've given in to it too often, so maybe I'll just wait til the PCI-e drives are mainstream and affordable. 'Course, by then, my mobo will probably not support it, sooo.....
 
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jhansman said:
Right. I want to believe that a new drive will give me something I'm lacking (whatever the heck that is), but really, it's just technolust. I've given in to it too often, so maybe I'll just wait til the PCI-e drives are mainstream and affordable. 'Course, by then, my mobo will probably not support it, sooo.....
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with all due respect, never wait and prevent your self from enjoying the latest technology because something better is always going to be around the next corner. I say, get the best bang for the buck at the moment and stop worrying too much on what's next.

That is, get a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO and forget about upgrading SSDs for at least 3 years
 
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G73S said:
That is, get a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO and forget about upgrading SSDs for at least 3 years .
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Interesting notion, but well beyond my budget today. No, I'm learning (slowly but surely) to live will less, and make what I have work as best it can. I know you can only do this for so long, but it was six years between my last two builds, and besides the re-education I had to sustain, I enjoyed the process thoroughly. Money well spent, and my current build does everything I need and more. Latest and greatest? Meh.
 
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I upgraded from 2x 128GB Samsung 830s to 2x240GB Sandisk Extreme IIs recently in my main rig. Even comparing the E2s to the 830s after I had done a secure wipe on the 830s, the E2s are obviously and noticeably faster. I'm not sure if it'd be noticeable for most people though, but where I most notice it is in bootup times.

I use a software RAM disk for my user temporary files and browser cache which is persistent, so it gets written at shutdown and read into memory and made available after login at bootup. These processes are obviously relatively I/O intensive, so peak out the SSDs (Resource Monitor shows 80-100% usage) when occurring. This is noticeable faster to the tune of shaving 11 seconds off my cold boot to usable desktop process between the two disks. I primarily credit this to the better performance consistency that the E2s have over the 830s.

Either way, I'm loving my E2s. I bought them like the week before the E Pros released.
 
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Tristor said:
I upgraded from 2x 128GB Samsung 830s to 2x240GB Sandisk Extreme IIs recently in my main rig. Even comparing the E2s to the 830s after I had done a secure wipe on the 830s, the E2s are obviously and noticeably faster. I'm not sure if it'd be noticeable for most people though, but where I most notice it is in bootup times.

I use a software RAM disk for my user temporary files and browser cache which is persistent, so it gets written at shutdown and read into memory and made available after login at bootup. These processes are obviously relatively I/O intensive, so peak out the SSDs (Resource Monitor shows 80-100% usage) when occurring. This is noticeable faster to the tune of shaving 11 seconds off my cold boot to usable desktop process between the two disks. I primarily credit this to the better performance consistency that the E2s have over the 830s.

Either way, I'm loving my E2s. I bought them like the week before the E Pros released.
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Yeah, and a faster boot time is always nice. Still, my 20 sec. boot now is fine, but I am beginning to experience lag in application startup. Not sure if this is the disk, or some other obtuse Win7 process to blame, but I might just do a format/restore just to see if the drive is losing steam. Since I'm not a gamer, my PC is pretty much a media ctr./browser/photo editor. Not that these are middling tasks, but I don't ask a lot from it, so it performs reasonably well.
 
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I'm kinda in the same boat. I'm in the middle of a new build and have a 128gb Crucial C300 on my current build that I bought as an upgrade a few years ago. It seems fine to me other than being on the small side, but I've made the decision to simply repurpose it for my new build rather than buying something new.

I'm thinking/hoping we're about a year or so away from NVMe M.2 x4 drives that SCREAM.
 
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I'm thinking/hoping we're about a year or so away from NVMe M.2 x4 drives that SCREAM.
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Amen. And if these can be used in today mobos, then it is worth the wait. I just had another case of "Ooohh, shiny and a new." This time the wallet stays in the pocket. Long ago someone reminded me that in upgrading components, you're just moving the bottleneck around. Something in your system is going to keep it from being as fast as something else. Good time to ask, "Just how fast does my computer have to be?" To ubergeeks, that's a dumb question, but my rig is purely productive, so give me something that speeds up productivity and I'll take a closer look.
 
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