Hello everyone!
Just wanted to have some discussion about SSD's or Solid State Drives, and what do you guys think about them.
Have you ever used one, if not would you like to try an SSD?
Do you think are they worth buying, cause they do have a lot smaller capacity for the price compared to HDD's (Hard Disk Drives)?
Could you guess how many times an average SSD is faster than a HDD? Make a few guesses and i will provide you with a benchmark of my SSD vs my HDD later. But i wanna see what you think first.
So my experience with an SSD:
I bought an SSD about a month or so ago, found a decent one on sale and just decided to go with it, cause my system was really slow and it just got me frustrated more than anything. It took me about 5-10 minutes to restart a PC and for everything to start up so that i am able to start using my PC (I use Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit). Cold starts were lot faster like about a minute and everything was running and ready to go, not sure why restarting was taking so much toll on my HDD. So i ordered the SSD, 240Gb SiliconPower S55 or something like that, it arrived the next day, and i installed a fresh version of Win 10 on it, after formatting my HDD and SSD (it needs to be formatted when you buy it). Installation wasn't long, it was about 15 minutes from a USB flash drive, and i got all the drivers and stuff running.
I installed League of Legends just to try out the loading times cause thats the game i play the most, the loading went from 0 to 100% in about 5 seconds xD And i was like woa noice stuff, but that joy ended fast cause i had to wait for everyone else to load their game too...
After that i installed Fallout 4, cause i liked the game a lot, but it was just pain in the ass to play it on the HDD, since loading times were horrible. It's like literally longer than 10 minutes to load the game, and let alone every time you enter a building... But let me tell you, on an SSD, its like a completely other game. Loading times are literally couple of seconds long, frame rate is much smoother cause it doesnt have to search the hard drive to load the map and game quality of life feels so much better and more enjoyable. Only think that SSD cant fix in fallout 4 is the dreadful conversation system they have running there. Its really miserable and ruins the game xD
Thats about the games, i do have GTA V running on SSD too and lots of other programs and smaller games that i use frequently and it really makes a difference. But the most noticeable difference is just in general usage of the PC, everything runs miles better. Like you double click a program and its just there on your screen. You dont have to wait for your Firefox or Chrome to load up, just double click and they are ready to use. Also windows search, now actually finds stuff faster than you would by yourself xD
Anyway thats just my experience with the SSD, and i personally think i wont go back to HDD any time soon, next storage upgrade will be 512Gb SSD or higher, and eventually fully SSD powered PC. I still have 500Gb HDD running ofc for my less used programs, and i use it to install bigger games, store movies and what not. So i guess i could buy a HDD for storage purpose. But system drive, SSD has no replacement in my book.
Tell me what you guys think.
Cheers
W4RL10N
Just wanted to have some discussion about SSD's or Solid State Drives, and what do you guys think about them.
Have you ever used one, if not would you like to try an SSD?
Do you think are they worth buying, cause they do have a lot smaller capacity for the price compared to HDD's (Hard Disk Drives)?
Could you guess how many times an average SSD is faster than a HDD? Make a few guesses and i will provide you with a benchmark of my SSD vs my HDD later. But i wanna see what you think first.
So my experience with an SSD:
I bought an SSD about a month or so ago, found a decent one on sale and just decided to go with it, cause my system was really slow and it just got me frustrated more than anything. It took me about 5-10 minutes to restart a PC and for everything to start up so that i am able to start using my PC (I use Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit). Cold starts were lot faster like about a minute and everything was running and ready to go, not sure why restarting was taking so much toll on my HDD. So i ordered the SSD, 240Gb SiliconPower S55 or something like that, it arrived the next day, and i installed a fresh version of Win 10 on it, after formatting my HDD and SSD (it needs to be formatted when you buy it). Installation wasn't long, it was about 15 minutes from a USB flash drive, and i got all the drivers and stuff running.
I installed League of Legends just to try out the loading times cause thats the game i play the most, the loading went from 0 to 100% in about 5 seconds xD And i was like woa noice stuff, but that joy ended fast cause i had to wait for everyone else to load their game too...
After that i installed Fallout 4, cause i liked the game a lot, but it was just pain in the ass to play it on the HDD, since loading times were horrible. It's like literally longer than 10 minutes to load the game, and let alone every time you enter a building... But let me tell you, on an SSD, its like a completely other game. Loading times are literally couple of seconds long, frame rate is much smoother cause it doesnt have to search the hard drive to load the map and game quality of life feels so much better and more enjoyable. Only think that SSD cant fix in fallout 4 is the dreadful conversation system they have running there. Its really miserable and ruins the game xD
Thats about the games, i do have GTA V running on SSD too and lots of other programs and smaller games that i use frequently and it really makes a difference. But the most noticeable difference is just in general usage of the PC, everything runs miles better. Like you double click a program and its just there on your screen. You dont have to wait for your Firefox or Chrome to load up, just double click and they are ready to use. Also windows search, now actually finds stuff faster than you would by yourself xD
Anyway thats just my experience with the SSD, and i personally think i wont go back to HDD any time soon, next storage upgrade will be 512Gb SSD or higher, and eventually fully SSD powered PC. I still have 500Gb HDD running ofc for my less used programs, and i use it to install bigger games, store movies and what not. So i guess i could buy a HDD for storage purpose. But system drive, SSD has no replacement in my book.
Tell me what you guys think.
Cheers
W4RL10N