Best SSDs For The Money: August 2012
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Anonymous
July 19, 2014 12:13:18 AM
Are you still holding off on an SSD upgrade? You may not need to. Vendors are cutting their prices yet again. If you're on a budget, drives under $200 sure are tempting. This may be a temporary phenomenon, though; retailers are in "back to school" mode.
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kalmquist
July 19, 2014 2:01:31 AM
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dusty13
July 19, 2014 5:14:50 AM
AsTheDeath
July 19, 2014 6:41:29 AM
With regards to the "Other solid state options", do you reckon another USB 3.0 drives roundup/review would be doable? The last one has been some time ago, but I did find that really helpful and I'm in fact typing this from Windows 8.1 installed on my SanDisk Extreme 32GB USB
Going by the fact that you're still recommending that stick, I'll assume I'm not doing too badly, but an overview of the current state of USB 3.0 would be nice.
Going by the fact that you're still recommending that stick, I'll assume I'm not doing too badly, but an overview of the current state of USB 3.0 would be nice.
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kamhagh
July 19, 2014 8:30:17 AM
kamhagh
July 19, 2014 8:31:17 AM
CodeMatias
July 19, 2014 9:24:59 PM
When will we get a real cost/performance chart rather than the ridiculous thing that's been used for ages? Just take the performance, divide by price, and divide by the number of GB, and let people sort by 4k composite, sequential composite, and a test bench score. And best to group them by capacity, since cost per gb drastically decreases between 64gb and 1tb
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msroadkill612
July 20, 2014 3:55:38 PM
a/ hard to believe u need more than 64gb for a boot drive
b/ the killer factor is access speed vs a HDD - who gives a rats about transfer speed? - huge is huge
given the above, despite the scoffers, i still think raid 1 w/ a ssd primary & a hdd secondary could work well in some apps. none seem to have tried it & benched it meaningfully i can see
most realtime work is done by primary (ssd) drive
fast & cheap always up redundancy
d/ i hear rumors than the sandisk cache thingo has weird firmware - flushes the cache a lot - defeats the purpose? Many say its great.
loved the idea when first heard it, now not so sure
b/ the killer factor is access speed vs a HDD - who gives a rats about transfer speed? - huge is huge
given the above, despite the scoffers, i still think raid 1 w/ a ssd primary & a hdd secondary could work well in some apps. none seem to have tried it & benched it meaningfully i can see
most realtime work is done by primary (ssd) drive
fast & cheap always up redundancy
d/ i hear rumors than the sandisk cache thingo has weird firmware - flushes the cache a lot - defeats the purpose? Many say its great.
loved the idea when first heard it, now not so sure
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youcanDUit
July 20, 2014 7:48:04 PM
youcanDUit
July 20, 2014 7:48:10 PM
Brogan
July 22, 2014 12:28:23 AM
arcus1200
July 24, 2014 11:49:35 AM
kamhagh
July 26, 2014 3:22:00 AM
cypeq
July 30, 2014 3:10:28 AM
msroadkill612
August 3, 2014 5:27:22 AM
being silly. as many are, say u r broke or trying to stretch an old pcS life ...
As they say, lottsa ram wins, even if slow.
So what say a big swap file on an ssd?
My 2gb, soon to be replaced, 98xp PC has a 4gb HDD swap file (suggested by windows) & it crawls - u can hear it
swapping
at least the ssd can be re-used - ram upgrades cannot
As they say, lottsa ram wins, even if slow.
So what say a big swap file on an ssd?
My 2gb, soon to be replaced, 98xp PC has a 4gb HDD swap file (suggested by windows) & it crawls - u can hear it
swapping
at least the ssd can be re-used - ram upgrades cannot
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msroadkill612
August 3, 2014 8:18:14 AM
Mabe the conventional logic of ssdS is all wrong?
An entire copy of your system disk on cheap/fast, but niggardly on space, storage - really?
that means being anal with what goes where for ever more - time & hassle & maybe risk?
why not make it their problem?
seagate etc. hybrid 1tb drive - 8 gb cache onboard - $~100
something like sandisk intellicache~? 32gb ~$45 - not a drive - just a cache
maybe a small ssd for known scratch files like win swap etc - $45 64gb - $85 128gb - kingston?
would make a great raid 1 rig
I am told win 8 installs on 128gb can be a struggle - absurd
In theory, only cache what needs caching, not clutter.
Dont quote me if i am wrong (tho i cant see where, if they work ok)
Very fast almost all the time
Time is money - this is KISS
An entire copy of your system disk on cheap/fast, but niggardly on space, storage - really?
that means being anal with what goes where for ever more - time & hassle & maybe risk?
why not make it their problem?
seagate etc. hybrid 1tb drive - 8 gb cache onboard - $~100
something like sandisk intellicache~? 32gb ~$45 - not a drive - just a cache
maybe a small ssd for known scratch files like win swap etc - $45 64gb - $85 128gb - kingston?
would make a great raid 1 rig
I am told win 8 installs on 128gb can be a struggle - absurd
In theory, only cache what needs caching, not clutter.
Dont quote me if i am wrong (tho i cant see where, if they work ok)
Very fast almost all the time
Time is money - this is KISS
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kitekrazee
August 3, 2014 6:38:12 PM
fwupow
August 20, 2014 8:26:35 PM
degreesofuncertainty
August 28, 2014 11:56:29 PM
pyro226
September 10, 2014 8:06:01 PM
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being silly. as many are, say u r broke or trying to stretch an old pcS life ...As they say, lottsa ram wins, even if slow.
So what say a big swap file on an ssd?
My 2gb, soon to be replaced, 98xp PC has a 4gb HDD swap file (suggested by windows) & it crawls - u can hear it
swapping
at least the ssd can be re-used - ram upgrades cannot
You can put the page file on an SSD if you want. SSD's have limited lifespans, and are quite slower than RAM. In the short run (probably 2 years or less under moderate use), an SSD may do the trick until you can afford an upgrade.
More RAM is preferred if the price is reasonable and you plan on keeping the computer for a long time. My dad's desktop is a pentium 4 that is probably 10 years old. He has already repaired and re-soldered capacitors on the motherboard, replaced the power supply, maxed out the processor for a Pentium 4 that's ~3Ghz and has RAM at maybe 1GB (may be 1.5 GB at most, with a Mobo max of 2GB i think?). He plans on running it until it experiences complete failure or until someone gives him a new one due to upgrading. It's the living room computer. I've used it for web-browsing, photo-editing (adjusting levels, cropping, clone brush), youtube videos. It handles the tasks just fine.
This is an extreme case. Most users just upgrade when it breaks. However, in this case, more ram and an HDD pagefile is the better option. An SSD pagefile would likely be pushed to failure before the rest of the computer fails beyond hope of repair. RAM would be the better investment. He doesn't even care about 1-2 minute boot times. It's what he's used to. He just powers on the computer and grabs snacks while it's loading
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thats so cheap and good at same time ! only 100$
MX100 is only 110$? i tought its like 180$ !!! thats amazing !(250gb)
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