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Radio_Shack

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Recently decided to try SSD (finally) and was very impressed with the performance increase over the traditional hard disk.

Bought the ADATA 256GB SU800 for $104, not a bad price.

Found the OS booted up 6X faster and programs loaded about the same performance boost (initially).

If your computer seems to be slow seems like a very easy and affordable upgrade to get the 6X boost.

Anyone have any other experiences with SSD they like to share? Cheers
 

Radio_Shack

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Samsung are the best. Everything else is meh.
Is that based on your experience using Samsung SSD?

Lots of things to consider here like price vs performance I guess..
 

HungSowel

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You would be hardpressed to notice the difference between a Samsung vs your SDD in real life usage. Samsung's do generally hold the performance crown for SSDs and tend to command a price premium over other brands.
 

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some people are on a budget, and the tech has improved so much. For basic needs I think anyone out of the top 5 ssd's would be suitable. Just my 2 cent's worth of opinion btw adding ram helps out too.
 

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Prices have gone down, but I wonder if they go bad, is there a Warning so you can backup your stuff.
 

Radio_Shack

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Prices have gone down, but I wonder if they go bad, is there a Warning so you can backup your stuff.
That's a good point. Couldn't find anything solid on if the SSD's outlive a Hard disk. If you find any tests on that do throw them my way. Thanks
 

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Is that based on your experience using Samsung SSD?

Lots of things to consider here like price vs performance I guess..
Yes, Samsung are SSD kings. But there are rumblings that other manufacturers are upping their R&D to compete with Samsung.
 

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Prices have gone down, but I wonder if they go bad, is there a Warning so you can backup your stuff.
That's because they have 3TB SDD and 4, 5, 6TB SDD are coming out. The old mechanical hard drives will be a thing of the past.
 

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That's a good point. Couldn't find anything solid on if the SSD's outlive a Hard disk. If you find any tests on that do throw them my way. Thanks
Been running 2 SSDs and only use a HDD for storage now.
One is a 128GB Kingston SSD installed 4/4/13. The other a 480GB Sandisk SSD installed 11/26/15. Both run great and are vastly faster than any HDD. SSD prices are falling and definitely worth moving to. Claims are made that SSDs will outlast any HDD but only time will tell. Have no complaints with them but do backup anything of value.
 

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Recently decided to try SSD (finally) and was very impressed with the performance increase over the traditional hard disk.

Bought the ADATA 256GB SU800 for $104, not a bad price.

Found the OS booted up 6X faster and programs loaded about the same performance boost (initially).

If your computer seems to be slow seems like a very easy and affordable upgrade to get the 6X boost.

Anyone have any other experiences with SSD they like to share? Cheers
The difference is amazing! Your SSD is SATA 6Gb/s (assuming you are running 6G and not 3G), PCIe is even faster.

Early SSDs were unreliable and experienced errors within 2 years. Modern SSDs are rated at 5+ years with the Samsung 850 PRO warrantied for 10 years. Many SSDs have extra memory, as the controller detects bad blocks it marks them as unusable and swaps in the spare memory.

SSDs are better at handling shock and temperature extremes than HDD and consume less power (good for laptops).
 

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I use 1 SSD just for Windows OS and to boot it, I use the 2nd SSD for games, 3rd hard drive for programs like iTunes, and 4th 2TB hard drive for storage which I back up on a raid set up a few times a year. Had this set up for a few years now and my boot up times are just as quick as when I bought it and boots in like 14-16 secs from total shut down. It helps that it’s a gaming PC as well. But yeah SSD is the way to go and backing your photos to a cloud like through Amazon prime.
 

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I've had a Samsung SSD for 3 years now and it's been solid (pardon the pun!). Only hesitancy I had was that I was told they die quicker than a regular hard drive but the performance improvement was immediately evident. I'm due for a fresh Windows install but haven't gotten around to it yet. I still use old drives for data but if I was building a new computer SSD for your OS drive is a must.
 

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Intel Optane SSD is the next gen SSD technology with 5-10X MTBF of typical consumer SSDs (although Intel is only offering 5 year warranties) and 30-50% better performance. Pricing is still very high (5X Samsung SSD). March review in MaximumPC - Intel Optane NVMe was on average 40% faster than Samsung PRO NVMe and 350% faster than Samsung 850 Evo 6Gbps SATA.

Of course in the real world, the actual gains are less and your application performance is often limited by the crappily written application itself.

Computers are like cars, you can never have too much horsepower.
 

b4u

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With my Samsung 960 pro NVME my computer boots fully in 12 seconds,programs respond lightning fast, it's much faster than my Samsung 850 EVO SSD used previously as my boot drive.
Pricing is still a little high for NVME drives but the performance gain is noticeable over standard SSD
 

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With my Samsung 960 pro NVME my computer boots fully in 12 seconds,programs respond lightning fast, it's much faster than my Samsung 850 EVO SSD used previously as my boot drive.
Pricing is still a little high for NVME drives but the performance gain is noticeable over standard SSD
I'm jealous NVME / PCIe or M.2 / HCIS is pretty new, I haven't upgraded any of my PCs to it yet. I have a M.2 SSD in a laptop and 2 x SSDs via 6G SATA in my desktop. With Intel's latest CPUs now out I was getting ready to update, but memory and GPU prices are a bit crazy right now.
 

frankcastle

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Recently decided to try SSD (finally) and was very impressed with the performance increase over the traditional hard disk.

Bought the ADATA 256GB SU800 for $104, not a bad price.

Found the OS booted up 6X faster and programs loaded about the same performance boost (initially).

If your computer seems to be slow seems like a very easy and affordable upgrade to get the 6X boost.

Anyone have any other experiences with SSD they like to share? Cheers
Totally agree. SSD is the best upgrade you can do for your PC.
 

b4u

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I'm jealous NVME / PCIe or M.2 / HCIS is pretty new, I haven't upgraded any of my PCs to it yet. I have a M.2 SSD in a laptop and 2 x SSDs via 6G SATA in my desktop. With Intel's latest CPUs now out I was getting ready to update, but memory and GPU prices are a bit crazy right now.
Yes 2018 is a terrible year to build a PC or upgrade graphics or memory. crypto currency caused a 50% increase in the price of high end Nvidea graphics cards in particular. it looks like pricing is slowly coming down but still awhile before it's reasonable.
 

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Yes 2018 is a terrible year to build a PC or upgrade graphics or memory. crypto currency caused a 50% increase in the price of high end Nvidea graphics cards in particular. it looks like pricing is slowly coming down but still awhile before it's reasonable.
Tell me about it! I created a "wish list" of PC components almost two years ago now that priced in at $1500 for motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, and cooler. Checked it a few months ago expecting the same list to be down around $1000. Instead, it was $1600. For 2-year-old parts! The RAM cost had doubled by itself!

I'm now running on a PC that has 5-year-old components, but not running into any issues. It was a beast in 2013, so maybe that's why. I'm hoping it'll keep up until after this craze dies down. If it does....
 
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