Hello yall, I've been running my current rig (I5-2500k, MSI p67a-g43 sata 3 capable, 12 gb 1600 vengeance, crossfire hd6950 2gb) with an older first gen 80gb Intel X-25m G1 SSD as my boot drive and was wondering if upgrading to a newer current gen ssd as a boot drive would be worth it. Everything boots up quickly and the drive was recently wiped clean before installing Windows 7 Professional. However, it does not have TRIM support and hence a real chance of performance degradation. I have followed the article on this website for setting up SSD and do not use it to store documents or write anything other than run the OS and programs.
In light of the above information, would upgrading to a newer gen SSD such as a newer intel or corsair, or even ocz be worth it? My sequential read on the X-25 G1 is 250MB/s and sequential write is 70MB/s. Random 4k read is 35k IOPS and 4k write is 3.3k IOPS. I know newer SSDs have numbers that double the read and quadruple the write. Would it make any difference as a boot drive? Will Windows boot and run faster given all my other specs? Should i be worried that my x-25m g1 will slow down and increase boot/load times? Games and media get stored exclusively on my traditional HDD.
In light of the above information, would upgrading to a newer gen SSD such as a newer intel or corsair, or even ocz be worth it? My sequential read on the X-25 G1 is 250MB/s and sequential write is 70MB/s. Random 4k read is 35k IOPS and 4k write is 3.3k IOPS. I know newer SSDs have numbers that double the read and quadruple the write. Would it make any difference as a boot drive? Will Windows boot and run faster given all my other specs? Should i be worried that my x-25m g1 will slow down and increase boot/load times? Games and media get stored exclusively on my traditional HDD.