LaSabita Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I have almost no load times at all. Like 2 seconds with my SSD. I like it a lot. But an SSD is not a hard drive =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy61157 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I have a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD as my primary drive, and I'll tell you what, it really does bring out those speeds, although I definitely don't blame anyone who is waiting for the price to come down still, I got my SSD as an early Christmas present... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrayy Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 my msi gt70 win7 prof, runs with a samsung 850 evo 1tb ssd (6 month) as primary and 840 evo (1,5 years) 1tb as secondary drive, both second hand. i'm really happy, very fast, no problems since the 840 slow down bug is solved with a bios update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StolenTerminal Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 I shall be upgradeing my ssd's next year not sure if i should get x4 240GB & a 4 port rocket raid card for the ssd's or go get a 1TB PCi-e ssd card ? :ohmy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthompsen Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 I have a 500 GB Sata. It's pretty underused. Next time, I'm just getting a small 128 M2 card. To me, SSD is still mostly useful as a hard drive for the OS... I use a large WD Black for storage and games. Unless you have the wads of cash for a multi terabyte SSD, this is the way to go in my opinion. SSD for loading, regular hard drive for the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMod Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Unless you want a SSD for games. It matters for any online games, some slow-to-load games, etc. Right now, a 1 TB PCI-E NVMe SSD will set you back just $330: https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=INT600P1TB&c=CJ It's not a lot of money, but you get a lot of performance: 1.8 GB/s sequential transfer speed (10 times that of a HDD) and up to 155k IOPS (1000 times that of HDD). Two years ago, you'd have to pay 3x the price of a regular SSD for a NVM-express drive, now it's only a 20% premium. And, all in all, at $0.4/GB, it's time. HDD are still useful for movies and cold storage, but for software the savings aren't there anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthompsen Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Unless you want a SSD for games. It matters for any online games, some slow-to-load games, etc. Right now, a 1 TB PCI-E NVMe SSD will set you back just $330: https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=INT600P1TB&c=CJ It's not a lot of money, but you get a lot of performance: 1.8 GB/s sequential transfer speed (10 times that of a HDD) and up to 155k IOPS (1000 times that of HDD). Two years ago, you'd have to pay 3x the price of a regular SSD for a NVM-express drive, now it's only a 20% premium. And, all in all, at $0.4/GB, it's time. HDD are still useful for movies and cold storage, but for software the savings aren't there anymore. I don't see the difference yet. But I don't play online games. I have tons of RPGs and action titles, and they're all on the WD Black. I used to run them on the SSD (Samsung 850 Evo), but the lack of space drove me mad. I hated installing things a little at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notanon81 Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Got a Samsung 850 EVO 2TB on order, should be able to pick it up tomorrow if all goes well. Going to be using that for my Steam, GOG and Origin game libraries and demote the 2TB HDD I currently have to media and non-critical apps. Plan on getting a 1TB M.2 SSD when I go for the next major setup upgrade, mainly depending on how much a gain Coffee Lake CPUs are over the Kaby Lake ones (got an i5-3570k), but also as mSata ones above 240GB aren't worth hunting for for the current setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tragthemercenary Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Don't forget that hybrid drives are available. My rig uses a 256GB SSD/1 TB SATA drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyMi Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Well.. a hybrid is not rly worth the money, bit quicker, good deal for notebooks that's all. A decent m.2 or sata ssd + a good hdd like a wd gold or cuda will do the job good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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