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Just installed an SSD wow!
marlman
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I've had my computer a few years now and its been great, it's an Intel Core i3 with 8gb of ram and a 1tb drive so its no slouch.
But lately its been giving me problems booting up coming up with read disc errors not all the time but every now and then.
So decided to get a new hard drive and keep the 1tb drive for data.
Was going to go down the normal drive route but while in the shop decided to try an SSD.
I bought a Samsung 120gb for £99
Well I just installed it and reinstalled Windows 8 on it and its got the real wow factor now.
Everything is running so mush faster programs load virtually instant its pretty impressive!
So if anyone is thinking of getting one go for it you will not be disappointed.
But lately its been giving me problems booting up coming up with read disc errors not all the time but every now and then.
So decided to get a new hard drive and keep the 1tb drive for data.
Was going to go down the normal drive route but while in the shop decided to try an SSD.
I bought a Samsung 120gb for £99
Well I just installed it and reinstalled Windows 8 on it and its got the real wow factor now.
Everything is running so mush faster programs load virtually instant its pretty impressive!
So if anyone is thinking of getting one go for it you will not be disappointed.
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There are many on these boards that still dont believe though.
Can't see how I'd get rid of the 27 second BIOS boot, though, so I'd still have that baggage to wait for I guess. Faster program load times would be nice but my slowest (Paint Shop Pro X5) only takes 15 seconds at most, even Powerdirector 11 takes less than that, and that's while watching fooball in Firefox on ITV and browsing DS on my other screen.
Are the potential improvements going to be worth it when I could gain an extra 2TB+ of HDD storage for my £100? Consolidating my three hard drives into one 3TB drive would probably benefit me more for my money, so I remain one of the unconvinced.
Why on Earth does your BIOS take so long? I don't think I've seen anything but a server take that long to get through the BIOS (and that's because it has so many peripherals to load up before the OS).
Switch on once a day, open the curtains, go put the kettle on, lay out my mug, coffee etc, return and it's done. It would help a bit when I switch operating systems though.
SSD do make a difference, certainly on boot up and the plug ins for photoshop and Vegas zooms in, where with the old spinny drive it took ages,
so SSd do make a difference if you got software that is bulky.
I'd be very wary of using a disk for my data that you know comes up with read disk errors now and then.
like most things IT related, there are things they are good at and others were they make little difference.
If you need TB's storage and aren't made of money then you can't beat a mechanical drive.
Also once my PC is booted and I've loaded my apps I can hear my hard drive power down so I am guessing at that point its no going to make any difference what type of drive I am using.
And do I care about boot times ? Probably not, like most people I am fine to switch it on and walk away for a minute or so. Then the time from entering userid/password to desktop appearing is maybe 10 seconds or so. Can I live with that for the sake of 50 quid extra that it would cost to put my system partition on SSD, at the moment again I can.
I am not putting SSD down, I have one in my server which is running mysql application for which SSD is ideal. But in terms of bangs for bucks its not one size fits all
So would I, I'd buy a new one.
Got no problem with using drive I formatted before using it. Plus I'm obsessed with backup.
It's automatically backed up daily to my NAS and I also do a manual backup once a week to another external drive.