Buying an ssd worth it ?

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Ratul Chakrabarty

Ratul Chakrabarty

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i dont care much about boot times and game load times, other than that are there any benefits ?
i've heard people say once you buy an ssd you'll never go back to standard HDD's as you os drive
 
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It's supposed to help games a bit but I wouldn't imagine much. You'll open anything stores on it faster. An SSD is a pure luxury. But it's a very nice luxury.
 
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ingtar33

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considering every pc since the core2duo came out has looked identical in windows and loading programs due to the fact cpus have been far too fast for their storage, i'd say the benifit is 100% in user experience

I don't even have a Hard Drive in my system. I'm 100% SSD right now.

Benefits:
boot speed
load speed (don't dismiss this, everything opens instantly)
save speed
install speed (its sorta cool to do a full install of windows or office in under 5 minutes)
1/10 the power consumption of a standard hard drive
zero noise
zero heat (these are no where near as hot as hard drives could be)

Negatives:
if you don't have a good power supply and a UPS, data corruption will be a real worry, as these things are sensitive to bad power.
 
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Solandri

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Aside from the data read/write speeds, the biggest advantage of a SSD is its ability to simultaneously handle multiple access requests. With a HDD, the drive is pretty much limited to processing a single request at a time because it has to wait for the area of the platter with the requested data to spin under the read/write heads. SSDs are fast enough they can read small data files faster than the computer can request them.

As a result, you know how a HDD computer grinds to a halt if it starts swapping, or if there's a virus scan running in the background? A SSD computer doesn't blink in that situation. In fact I frequently run a virus scan and two malware scans at the same time, and I can still use the computer just fine. Those scans are usually CPU-limited if you have a SSD, and the CPU handles concurrent tasks a lot better than a HDD.
 
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