Hardrives SSD

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are ssd drives noticably faster?

[Evman]

Absolutely, by a significant amount

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ok cheers i might look at investing in one? any good suggestions and brands?

[steve_t]

ok cheers i might look at investing in one? any good suggestions and brands?

Start at post #1 of this thread and read down

[marcu5]

ok cheers i might look at investing in one? any good suggestions and brands?

Intel 520 series are great, Intel tend to be leading the SSD pack also (quality, warranty etc.)
Samsung would be next best, the 840 series.
Now, the Intel's usually come with a 2.5" to 3.5" bay adapter (your HDD in your computer is 3.5", so you will need this).
The Samsung's usually don't (you can get the retail Samsung's SSD's, but most stores will flog you the oem SSD's, the oem's don't have the adapter in the box).
An adapter can be had for $3 off eBay, or the same thing in most local computer stores for $10.

Both the Intel and Samsung come with very easy to use disk cloning software, so you don't have to reinstall windows, you just clone your old hard drive to the new SSD.

Performance wise, they made a huge improvement to my 5 year old PC, certainly a wake up call from the 60-100MB transfer rate in performance to now 280MB transfer rate with huge increase in iop's. (transactions..).
My old PC is only Sata 3 transfer rate too, a lot of the newer ones are likely to be Sata 6, so even better performance to be had. That said, yes the SSD's are backward compatible to Sata 3.

A gotchya to be careful of is right angles power/SATA cables, the SSD drives are smaller and where the power/SATA cables connect into might be in the way of something else (i.e. Dell's have plastic brackets and shit all over the place, nothing a dermal and drill didn't fix..)
You can also get straight plugged cable connectors that might make your life easy.

I know this, because I have both the Intel and Samsung here at home and gone through the process of updating three machines in the last few weeks

[Micks]

I know this thread is getting on but rather than start another..
Upgraded my desktop in June this year it came with a Kingston 240gb ssd & a secondary Seagate 2tb sata Hdd.
So impressed with the ssd's looked at the new Samsung 1tb 850 Evo, ordered it last Monday from MWave in Sydney & received on Wednesday.
All I can say so far is very impressive & very fast. Installed my win 7 x64 OS in 11mins. System boots & loads windows quicker than the Kingston drive too.
They are a bit exxy though if your after speed it's worth the $$.

[Cobalt]

Wait till you remote the sata interface and go pcie direct... Now that's speed.

[team illucid]

Yep, I upgraded all my externals to the Samsung SSD. Not cheap, but worth it for the speed and reliability increase.

[QIKMIK]

I've got a Sandisk 128gb SSD for my desktop earlier this year (cheapo, I know) but the PC boots in about 15 seconds. Love it!

Mick

[Wonky]

As part of my system upgrade a few months ago I got a 1TB Kingston SSD and absolutely love it! I also have a 1TB normal hard drive which was also installed with a fresh version of Win10 and the SSD loads so much faster!

I now realise a 1TB SSD was probably a bit over the top but I got it from the USA for a good price. Definitely SSDs are the go!

[Micks]

As part of my system upgrade a few months ago I got a 1TB Kingston SSD and absolutely love it! I also have a 1TB normal hard drive which was also installed with a fresh version of Win10 and the SSD loads so much faster!

I now realise a 1TB SSD was probably a bit over the top but I got it from the USA for a good price. Definitely SSDs are the go!

Yes Gaz, only thing I noticed with the Kingston SSD it does run a bit hotter than the Samsung jobbie doing the same work. I don't think you went over the top with the 1tb though.

[Wonky]

Yes Gaz, only thing I noticed with the Kingston SSD it does run a bit hotter than the Samsung jobbie doing the same work. I don't think you went over the top with the 1tb though.

Actually I took notice today when I booted up - most of the time for booting is waiting for BIOS access if required and the choice of my 3 different boot options (2 sec). Once it defaults to Win 10 from the SSD the Win10 screen appears almost immediately and everything is loaded (Norton, CoreTemp, Everything - probably my most used program, Internet Download Manager + several other background programs) in only 5 - 10 secs.

Heat isn't a worry to me now I have my Noctua cooler. My 4 CPU cores are all currently running at around 30C at the moment (about 25C outside).

SSD size I guess depends on what you want to run. I want to do a fair bit of analogue/digital conversion and editing of our old tapes, hence I decided to go 1TB so I could keep all programs and data on the SSD and then back up to a hard drive as required. I have the Win10 OS on a 100GB partition (currently only 58GB used even with all my programs) and the rest is a data partition. For many people they could probably easily get away with a 128GB SSD for their OS, programs and even a significant amount of data if their primary aim was faster booting and running of programs, especially if they moved unnecessary data off as it filled.

[Micks]

BTW Merry Chrisso Gaz
How do you find Win10? I have stuck with 7 atm though have previously virtualized 8 & 8.1 not very happy with those but 8.1 shits all over 8. Have virtualized 10 over the last six months but not impressed with MS telementary (phone home) crap.

[C4B]

Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3 is absolutely Brilliant, never crashes, much nicer to use than W8.1.

On desktops things aren't quite so rosy. Crashes aplenty......

[team illucid]

BTW Merry Chrisso Gaz
How do you find Win10? I have stuck with 7 atm though have previously virtualized 8 & 8.1 not very happy with those but 8.1 shits all over 8. Have virtualized 10 over the last six months but not impressed with MS telementary (phone home) crap.

The phone home stuff is easy to turn off, so that is really a non-event. 8 and 8.1 were not that different really, so not sure how your like one and not the other. WinOSX is rock solid, except if you are on the insiders program - had 3 laptops upgrade and BSOD thanks to a faulty patch. Stick to normal and you should be all good (and faster than WinOS7).