Which one would you recommend?
Samsung, 240GB minimum - even if you think you're not storing much on it.
You cant compare the speeds between SSD and HDD, the SSD is so much more efficient.
You'd be surprised how much faster the load times are in high-end games if you actually install and play them directly from an SSD.
I went from the hard drive being the slowest component in my computer to being the fastest component, and it was ridiculous.
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Haha yeah I heard it is super fast, currently my hard drive is also what is keeping me back.
I don't plan on really using the hard drive much for gaming itself as I've heard the life expectancy is quite bad for an SSD?
I will maybe put one or two games on it that load extremely slowly, but will keep your comment in mind.
The 240GB SSD costs the same as the 1TB hardrive ( But as I said space isn't really an issue here)
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That's what they say but I've had mine for maybe 2 years now, only been used for gaming - i.e. no important data - so it will be interesting when it just up and dies on me...
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Speed makes it worth it though. They have a limit to writes, yeah, but things have moved quickly and they live much longer now than even a few years back. So long as you're not massively thrashing them every day the popular ones will last a solid decade now, basically so long as you don't constantly install/uninstall/reinstall massive games or whatever they'll be fine. Turn off your swopfile too if practical :)
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I really don't think that's necessary. I say install everything on the SSD. Uninstall and re-install as much as you want. Definitely use your swap file on the SSD. If that means the drive will live only 10 years instead of 12 - who cares. In 10 years you'll want a bigger one anyway. ;)
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I don't plan on really using the hard drive much for gaming itself as I've heard the life expectancy is quite bad for an SSD?
You don't need to worry about that. SSD have a finite life expectancy, sure. But we are talking about a lot of years there. When your SSD is finally dead, you will have bought a new one anyway.
I bought a 1TB SSD in 2014. I use it for everything. I have Windows including my swap file and hibernate file on it. I have my temp directory on it. I install all my games on it. I download stuff on it. It is on 24/7. And after 5 years of heavy usage (according to SMART info: 36932 power on hours = 4.21 power on years) the SSD is still healthy and works fine. The wear leveling count is at 67%, which means the drive still has a lot of life in it. Going by just the WLC I can expect it to work for another 74983 hours (8.5 years).
But even if it dies way faster than that, let's say in 5 years, that's still good enough. 10 years of heavy usage including games - you can't expect more from a HDD either. SSDs live longer than you maybe think. I can only urge you to go for the SSD (preferably a larger one if you have the budget, maybe 500GB) and use it for whatever you want. You don't have to treat it carefully. Just use it for everything. It will probably outlive your PC and die only after you want a new one anyway (because the old one is way too small then).
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I'd personally recommend the cheapest/biggest SSD you can afford. I personally haven't noticed a huge difference between brands like Samsung and cheaper brands like ADATA. Unless 440MB/s vs 480MB/s is a huge difference for you.
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Some chinese brands are crap for SSD standars, having shitty speed writing and reading numbers, so not always is the "best you can afford" for SSD, sadly.
ADATA is a nice medium - budget choice tho.
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Well, as with anything, you can take it to an extreme by getting the most knock-off version of some already knock-off brand. But I'm talking about certified brands. Should've cleared it up.
Literally everything has a knock-off that won't work properly and will be an issue.
ADATA is 100% a budget option and undoubtedly a very cheap brand. But their SSDs are solid. (pun intended)
Kingston's more expensive on average, but their quality tends to match ADATA's.
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+1. You just have to make sure the SSD you pick doesn't have a really exceptionally crappy lifetime or speed, but most cheap ones are good enough as long as you're looking for a good computer and not for benchmark e-peen.
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Why not a samsung? I personally wouldnt buy a ssd that doesnt have a 5 year warranty.
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No place close by sells one and my budget allows the three options in the poll XD
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A widely held mantra I've never really understood. If a drive dies your data is gone and you're presumably not gonna risk using the same model again, so what does that warranty get you?
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The only mantra worth keeping is "Anything worth saving is worth saving thrice" - or in other words, backup your shit. If your drive fails and your data is gone that's not gonna be fixed by a warranty, but with good backups it'll be as if it never happened, almost.
As for the warranty itself it's simple - buying a brand with a good warranty means you change the cost of your work + the cost of the drive to just the cost of your work. That's less cost. For many people who might not be able to buy a new drive until they get paid or something that's a big deal - that can be the difference between being out of a computer for a few weeks and being out of a computer for a day or two until the new drive arrives and backups can be restored.
Also if a company offers a good warranty it means they pay for their mistakes, which means you can guarantee their failure rates are way way lower than the ones of companies that don't offer good warranty. If I buy a good quality drive and it fails I got really unlucky, and it's much less likely my second drive will fail if I buy the same brand again than if I buy a lower quality brand one that has a higher failure rate.
So that's what the warranty gets me. Saving money and time, and getting a higher quality product.
And like I said, back up your shit.
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With the options a new drive or nothing, I would still like to get a new drive and either sell/change it for another one, than to be empty handed.
So if you had to choose between two good ssds, all specs the same only the warranty would be different. Youre telling me youd pick the one with the shorter warranty?
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No but that's a bit of a false situation given Samsungs are priced at a premium in part for that extended warranty. If you can find one for the same price as a Crucial then sure but you can't, at least here.
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The way I see it, the main reason to go for a drive with a long warranty period is that it's likely to last longer. Warranty service costs the company, so a longer warranty typically means that the drive is less likely to break down over that period.
If it does, well, personally I have no problem continuing to use the new drive. There's quite a bit of lottery involved, and nothing says the next drive will not last longer. As I said, companies would prefer not to replace drives under warranty, so on average I'd expect a drive to last its warranty period, and if it dies before that it's due to being in the low end of the bell curve, or due to something unrelated in the PC / house electricity which has nothing to do with the drive itself.
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Main hard drive as in boot drive? Because my plan is to install windows and my programs (microsoft and adobe) onto the SSD and then all my games on my secondary hard drive.
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It really depends on your budget, so... what's the maximum you can spend on an SSD?
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How long will SDD drive live as a main gaming drive?
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I bought a Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB 550MB/s Solid State Drive, Free shipping, Brand New on ebay for C $78.77 that's Canadian money US funds would be a lot less ORDER DATE Mar 21, 2018 , got my OS win10 pro x64 on it + steam+games + all my other gaming apps , I have another standard HD connected for my music and movies + data are on it and another hd with the OS backup , everything works fine with the new SSD
games and apps run a lot faster then on a normal HD its worth the upgrade. (And its sata 2 retro compatible if you got an older pc.)
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Go for kingston ones, I bought mine 120GB for 70€ when they were "expensive" , I'd recommend you to get at least 240, if you can go for more, it will be worth.
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I've use visual studio to work and the speed increase after switching to ssd is significant, from 2-3 minutes to second 😱
Sooo, get the ssd one, if you have more slot install hdd too ^^
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More space is always better but if you use it as a windows/gaming drive together and you do regular backups, your backups will be alot bigger ( and you get extra junk, suppose your windows crashes and all your games are on that drive too, easier if it could just be formatted without stressing. If you want games from a ssd drive, get another one just for that (or you could atleast divide the drive by partition, one part for windows, one part for games).
Ssd alone will make a world of difference on just windows booting up.
Personally i'd go for a more populair brand, but if you don't got that choice..
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If it is meant for a system drive, then SSD.
Right now, SSDs more or less fall into two categories:
- Samsung. So far ahead of everyone else, it is downright alarming. They know and ask quite the margin in extra price though, although not in a very seriously hurting level.
- Everyone else. If you cannot afford a 250 GB Samsung, then get whatever is the cheapest and has at least mildly recognisable brand name (since there are like a hundred Chinese manufacturer names with next to zero tested quality).
In general, it is recommended to get a 220-250 GB SSD for system, those usually have an acceptable speed and life expectancy.
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for at least some Mac, afaik, substitute Samsung for Crucial
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I think Crucial and, to a lesser degree, Western Digital are right up there with Samsung now. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend either of those if they happen to be cheaper than a Samsung of the same size. If depends on pricing. If it's only a $5-10 difference, I'd still go with Samsung. But in some places you can get Crucial MX 500 or WD Blue for considerably less than a Samsung Evo.
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SSDs are much faster than magnetic hard drives. It doesn't really matter which SSD brand you buy, they'd be much much better than an old HDD, especially a 120GB one. I bought a Kingston A400, which is relatively slow and it's quite cheap, and it was a massive upgrade. Same will be true for Adata, SanDisk or whatever.
I'd suggest a 240GB one at the very least, because the price difference from a smaller drive is small. If you can afford a larger one, get it.
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if it HAS to be one from your list go for the 240gb ssd.
you don't want a hdd for your system drive in 2019. and you don't want a tiny ssd that fills up quickly because ssd lifetime takes a really big hit if it's like 75 or 80% full all the time.
i'd get a crucial mx 500 with 250gb. crucial stuff never let me down (yet) and the prices are really good at the moment. last month i got a mx 500 1tb for my steam drive for 126€. that's a steal.
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Actually, the lifetime isn't affected by capacity, it's the write performance that decreases when it's above 80% full.
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As others, I'd highly recommend getting an SSD, the biggest you can afford. Samsung is great, but so is Crucial MX 500 or Western Digital Blue.
If you only want to have your OS on the drive, and have all your games and documents elsewhere, you can get away with just getting a 120GB SSD.
But SSD spoils you. SSD is so much faster that once you experience it, you'll want all your stuff on SSD. It's the difference between clicking on File Explorer and having it instantly pop up versus waiting 10 seconds for your files to appear. In games, an SSD can take 30-60 seconds off your loading times - games sometimes load so quickly that you don't even have time to read the tips that they put on loading screens. I now have all my games on SSD. And with AAA games now hitting 60-100GB+, drives fill up fast.
As for reliability, with modern drives and especially from a good brand - I recommend Samsung, Crucial, and Western Digital if you can afford it - you have nothing to worry about. Yes, they have a finite life expectancy, but so do spinning HDDs. An HDD with moving parts is likely to fail long before you'll use up the life expectancy of an SSD. I have a Samsung 840 Evo that I purchased almost 6 years ago that's still going strong.
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Get the 240GB (bigger if you can).
I didn't check ADATA's warranty and RMA process, but get something with decent support should it fail (and they can fail).
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Get a 480 or 512GB SSD if you can, prices go down sporadically.
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By the way, I don't know what prices you have locally, but it may be worth ordering from Amazon.com.
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I have 240 GB SSD for my boot drive + games ( I install I play and than I delete the games I finished) so I don't need HDD to store many GB of something and I will never go back to using a HDD for anything.
SSD is so fast in everything I think HDD are worth nothing now.
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Originally, are you considering upgrading from a PC equipped with 120 GB HD?
Of course, 1 TB hard disk is also good.
SSD is, of course, faster than that.
However···
If the capacity of the SSD can only be mounted on one drive, it is better to have 500 GB or more.
If writing / reading occurs frequently, it will be useless in about 5 years.
And it is concern ....
If the chipset of the motherboard is old, it may not support high-speed transfer.
In that case, even if it is replaced with SSD, we can not hope for a big speed improvement.
In any case, it is better to unpack the computer case and check the "installation location" and "wiring" once.
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I want to upgrade/replace my boot hard drive as it seems to be overheating these days, please see the options in the poll.
The hard drive I currently have as my boot drive is a 120 gig (and probably like 10 years old hence the heating issue now) so getting the 120 gig SSD would be nice as its the same size so I won't feel any hit (all my games are on my secondary 1 terabyte hard drive) now my question here is would it be worth it to get the SSD (what are the speed benefits and such) and would I rather want a 1 TB SATA drive and have more internal space ... hmmmm (I do have 3 externals that are fairly unused so space isn't reeeeally an issue)
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