Storage SSD worth it?

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  1. PauloWhysalli

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    If your not planning on upgrading your PC then I would just buy an Intel 320 series or a Vertex 2E. These two drives are cheaper (in most cases) and due to a bottle neck of SATA 2 on your system would persome just the same, In some cases the drives are even quicker than the ones you have mtnioned.

    It all depends on whether or not you want to upgrade your system at some point soon too.

    Also it may be worth shopping around as a few online stores have a few different prices goign on with these drives at the moment.

    Force 3 for instance is on special at ocuK.. not sure on the saving (likely £1 or something). Same goes for the Agility 3.
     
  3. PauloWhysalli

    PauloWhysalli Confused.com

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    May well upgrade to a Intel I5 2500K within a month so I am looking at the longer term, investment wise. I'm quite happy to shop around for the best price, just wanted to make sure the investment is worth it.

    If I am going I5 is it worth doing that before the upgrade to Windows 7??
     
  4. andrew8200m

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    I would certainly say so yes :)
     
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    The i5 is impressive even going from i7 860 as I have done. Overclocking, energy consumption, performance all impressive.

    Now added a Kingston Hyper X 120gb and that boots windows home premium x64 in about 7 seconds. I have battlefield 3 installed on it amongst other things.
     
  6. PauloWhysalli

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    Ok so I5 is the way I'm probably going to go then. Budget is probably going to be about £250 for processor, motherboard and RAM. What's going to be the best way to go with this budget?
     
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    I had a C300 with my old core 2 duo system... even tho that was a Sata 3 drive on a Sata 2 connection I still got reads higher than my old vertex 2.

    In other words, an M4 or whatever Sata 3 drive you get will still be awesome especially if your upgrading your mobo soon
     
  8. davefelcher

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    An SSD is probably the best £150 I have ever spent on a PC. Just buy one! Recommend the Crucial M4.

    The 2500K is currently £170 on Scan. Add say, £30 for RAM and that only leaves you with £50 for a motherboard. I'd suggest upping the budget to get a good motherboard. I've gone budget in the past and always regretted it.
     
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    Scan have a good price on the 64GB M4. Definitely recommended. OcUK did a test with their SSD range. M4 came out top.
     
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    I thought everyone would have known this by now.
     
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    Best thing I've ever put in my system without a shadow of a doubt. I hate booting my system in work not because of being spoilt by the ssd at home.
     
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    although i get decent benchmark speeds, real world speeds i have noticed my m4 is not as fast as other people's that i have seen on youtube, for stuff like booting and opening programs. weird.

    although for £70, it probably was worth it. i wouldnt have spent more than that though. maybe yours will be different.
     
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    LOL! Didnt even notice that! How retarded!

    Pointless without the K.
     
  16. PocketDemon

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    Unless you're proposing to buy more than 1 for, for example, a R0 setup (so non-trim), the async nand SFs aren't the best buy... ...& even then sync nand SFs would be *much* better.

    if you need to keep the price as low as possible & won't be doing anything in non-trim then go for a 128GB M4 - though if you up the budget then there's better SSDs.


    As to when not to use a consumer SSD (assuming you want to aim for the warranty lifespan), 3 generalisms off the top of my head...

    1. anything that's just going to sit there &/or only ever be accessed at slow speeds - for example, storing media files solely for playback is a complete waste of space - well, a 1:1 BD rip would have a max data rate of 54Mb/s (6.75MB/s) so, unless you were attempting to play several simultaneously for some unknown reason, a HDD will be more than fast enough...

    (installing more software &/or having extra free space &/or increasing OP will all be much better usages - extra free space & OP increase longevity & improve the maintainance of speeds of course)

    2. anything that's going to consume a huge no of r-e-w cycles & the write speed is not critical - for example, legal p2p downloading.

    (there's no point in wasting cycles for low priority stuff & reducing longevity)

    3. (if you have reasonably fast spare HDDs) any non-repeated process on data that's hugely sequential - for example, video editing/transcoding.

    (whilst there 'could' be a gain to doing it on SSD - depending on how CPU/GPU bound running the actual process is - having dedicated (& otherwise empty) source & destination HDDs will both be fast (as HDDs are very good at sequential r/ws) & won't be using up cycles on the SSD)
     
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