I have a 5 or 6 yr old system board (Gigabyte X58-UD3R) that only supports 6gb/s SATA 2, and would prefer to NOT have to upgrade it and the cpu to something newer right now, but definitely intend to do that asap.....
I'm an old guy (with a young heart) who spends quite a bit of time gaming under Unity 5.
The game I play (Shroud of the Avatar) is really "disk intensive", so I know I'd see a noticeable improvement when rendering scenes with a SSD - right?
Even tho' my system board only supports SATA 2, I know that SATA 3 devices support SATA 2 (but at a slower speed, but still way better than my HDD - right ? )
I'm looking at a SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E500B/AM from Newegg at $150.
I can transfer it to my new system as soon as I can upgrade, and in the meantime have much better performance...
Is my thinking correct ?
Oh, one more thing (sorry):
The 860 says that it's a "Vertical Internal Solid State Drive", and I'm embarrassed to ask - but does that mean that it must be installed vertically ?
God, I hope nobody I know reads this.........
I'm an old guy (with a young heart) who spends quite a bit of time gaming under Unity 5.
The game I play (Shroud of the Avatar) is really "disk intensive", so I know I'd see a noticeable improvement when rendering scenes with a SSD - right?
Even tho' my system board only supports SATA 2, I know that SATA 3 devices support SATA 2 (but at a slower speed, but still way better than my HDD - right ? )
I'm looking at a SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E500B/AM from Newegg at $150.
I can transfer it to my new system as soon as I can upgrade, and in the meantime have much better performance...
Is my thinking correct ?
Oh, one more thing (sorry):
The 860 says that it's a "Vertical Internal Solid State Drive", and I'm embarrassed to ask - but does that mean that it must be installed vertically ?
God, I hope nobody I know reads this.........
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