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SSD as primary (and only) storage.

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November 22, 2013 7:12:13 PM

I can remember years ago reading in PC magazine about "theoretical" builds utilizing (what was then) massive amounts of RAM operating as your HD.

While I realize there are financial constraints upon doing so, with the ability to get up to a TB of SSD storage, is there much performance advantage to be gained by using only SSD for storage?

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a b G Storage
November 22, 2013 7:38:22 PM

There are definite advantages. It massively improves read/write speeds, decreases boot time, and offers benefits in some programs, though I'd say there is no reason to use it as primary storage at the moment. I'm using a 60GB SSD in my desktop with three HDDs which works perfectly. I have a 256GB SSD in my laptop which has greatly improved battery life as well.
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a b G Storage
November 22, 2013 10:58:32 PM

SSDs are ONLY good for improving load times, the same as the completely impractical RAM drives you are comparing them to. They are COMPLETELY worthless and a waste of money for about anything else. Especially storage. They are good for you're OS, game load times, and other applications where you need high disk I/O. For things like mass storage, video storage, and large rarely accessed sequential files you are MUCH better of with a normal harddrive
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