Thinking about getting a SSD

SSD is like going from a dvd to a bluray, everything is much snappier and more responsive, boot times are much much better.  If you have the money (and the prices are very competetive now ) I would strongly urge you to pick one up

SSD is like going from a dvd to a bluray, everything is much snappier and more responsive, boot times are much much better.  If you have the money (and the prices are very competetive now ) I would strongly urge you to pick one up

duderino_23

I have been thinking about getting a SSD for my pc as an upgrade. Never had one before, so I don't really know where to start, other than newegg of course lol. I'm currently using a cheap 500g HDD. I heard SSD can make boot times faster and even better performance throughout. What do you guys think? Can I reformat everything, use the ssd as a boot into windows and still use my HDD to keep data?davi21a

Solid State Drives have no moving parts (they work like flash memory) so boot-up and start-up times are drastically faster, as is browing on the net.  I run a 120GB SSD for the OS and a few programs.  Games are sitting on a 2TB SATA-3 7200rpm HDD.  Everything works flawlessly that way.

I was thinking about getting an SSD. Any recommended brands and sizes?NEWMAHAY

Samsung 840 pro <---- Best you can get ATM.

256 GB <---- Min size you should get for best read and write speeds.

$240, Less then $1 a GB.

Well worth it.

If you don't care about SSD life span and want to spend less ($183). Then grab a SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250GB.

[QUOTE="NEWMAHAY"]I was thinking about getting an SSD. Any recommended brands and sizes?Truth_Hurts_U

Samsung 840 pro <---- Best you can get ATM.

256 GB <---- Min size you should get for best read and write speeds.

$240, Less then $1 a GB.

Well worth it.

If you don't care about SSD life span and want to spend less ($183). Then grab a SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250GB.

I would say "make sure yo net a newer gen ssd, or you will shoot yourself in the foot.

WIth that said, someone mentioned the samsung 840, which IS pretty much one of the best you can get, entirely built inhouse, so no problems with different parts manufactors.

Really good software, that helps with setting the ssd up correctly, and good tools overall.

It seems incredibly sturdy aswell, so a samsung 840 (prefferibly the pro models) are one of the better options out there :) they are not deadly expensive either.

I went with a Samsung 840 PRO from a standard hard drive 7200 RPM and the performance difference is extremely noticeable.  For daily tasks the best performance upgrade you can make is an SSD in most cases.  

I would say make sure you get at least 128 gb but would recommend more.  I got a 256 gb and you do use up the space pretty quickly. 

The only downside is there isn't any great advantage for gaming (in a lot of cases) but overall still a great upgrade.

they're pretty nifty

z77 board or newer + ssd + win8 = I'd imagine the boot times to be light speed.

Yes you can use your SSD for OS and HDD for apps if you direct your apps to your 2nd drive.

I think it's worth it if you want faster boot times. Also no need to defrag it.