SSD Appreciation Thread

Only SSD users only in here. Tell us how much your life has improved by switching to SSDs

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I save 3 seconds of my life when I turn on my computer

I save hours of time each time I install large programs or other big bundles of files, and especially each time I modify/move/copy my partitions, install new linux distros to try them, etc.

Copying partitions at a quarter gigabyte per second is a bit less annoying than copying them at shitty hdd speeds.

Add faster internet too (new provider, 10x the speed for the same price), and installing linux distros is a chore that no longer takes an hour but just a few minutes.

I install Linux distros 30 times per day and Dave a lot of time

Non-SSD user here, but honestly curious
How does the reliability compare to a disk drive's nowadays?

SSD+W10+Fastboot motherboard = 2 sec load from power to login

Also the Sup Forums side of me loves being first to load in maps on Battlefield

Only PCIe/NVMe people please, no poorfags allowed

>fastboot with a SSD
I bet you also have a pagefile

They're pretty good. You want a backup, because they degrade in a more linear fashion.

Basically, SSD's never fail until you start deleting stuff off of them. Deleting and re-using space is what leads to problems, and I don't know if flash memory as we know it will ever be able to fix that problem.

It's worth it though. My computer boots from off to on with all programs running in literally 10-15 seconds. It's incredible coming from regular HDDs just a year ago where my PC would take 30 seconds to get to windows, then another couple of minutes to get everything up and running at 100%.

I can turn my PC off when I go out for a walk, or when I'm going off to cook dinner now without dreading the boot process. It's such an improvement.

I have a small boot SSD, sure. It's nice enough. But what I really want is a 2GB PCIe SSD with massive speed to obliterate loading times in vidya. Fucking hate loading times, everything else has advanced, but loading times are more or less the same.

Deal with my cheao chink sata ssd richfag

>dreading the boot process.
glad to see that you're enjoying loli 15 seconds sooner

> want is a 2GB PCIe SSD
and wtf would that 2gb hold ??

SSDs allow me to switch OS in 25~ seconds so I can boot into Windows to play a game and back to Linux for everything else. I enjoy that.

>actually wants to buy SSD
>still afraid of all the FUD about ssd having a shitty lifespan
>always wonder if you can trust any brand or if they mostly do shit.

I-I guess I'll wait for a new meme storage technology

>and wtf would that 2gb hold

The only reason why I bother with this technology to begin with: Games.

what does a pagefile have to do with skipping uefi checks?

>2gb expected to hold games

Fuck, meant 2TB.

Are there still people in TWENTY FUCKING SIXTEEN who aren't on SSDs yet?

Anybody have a Toshiba OCZ Trion 150?

Looks solid. I want to get a 960 gb one.

There are people here who still don't have a PCIe SSD and call themselves enthusiasts.
it's 2016 !

Samsung pro drives will withstand something like 7000 tb of writes before going bust. That would take a lifetime to do for a regular user.

I would like to remind everyone, this is bullshit from the early oughts.

SSDs now literally last forever.

techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

Lets say you had a 500GB SSD. To wear it out you would need to:

1. Write 500GB per day. So you would need to rewrite the ENTIRE drive every day.
2. For 10 years.

This is far and beyond whats required for almost all consumer use cases. There is literally no reason not to have your main drive be an SSD.

Don't have one but I don't think there are really "bad" SSDs these days. Some are a little faster or perhaps a little more durable than others but I wouldn't hesitate to use an OCZ or any other brand if I came across a good deal.

Ssd have been among us since like forever, their reliability just depends on price and parts quality (controllers, nand, manufacturing, etc..)
Just the same as Hdd
Though is not meant for storage purposes as the price for capacity is not there yet, neither hdd does unless you set a backup/redundant/raid system so your data is totally safe.
I dont see why it is not an adventage to boot your OS and programs from there now that the market is starting to offer lower prices

lol no

you'll still occasionally get bottlenecked by any mechanical drives you have attached (if i click on upload, firefox will pause while my 4TB wakes up for example).
SSD life estimatesa round 8-12 years for most drives. you'll probably never use it that long, i've upgraded mine three times since 2010, from 128 to 256 and now 500GB

That is why you replace everything with SSDs. Use HDDs to hotswap, load your porn, and store it somewhere else forever.

I agree with you that the results of the endurance test.

warranty period != life of the drive

Honestly 4TB (avg of 130 gigs per day) per month for 100 months is plenty, by the time the drive might die from wearing out it will long be obsolete.

takes a little less time to start my computer, my games have no loading times

Thats about it

I mean, why do you have fasboot enabled when it takes almost the same to perform a complete boot with an Ssd other than just adding extra writing cycles for it to shorten its lifetime? Also having a pagefile enabled is even worse unless you really need one due to low memory issues.
I also recommend is you have enough ram you should store your browser's cache on ram instead of the SSd for it not to wear out sooner

cheap ssds are literally worse than hard drives.

>2GB PCIe SSD with massive speed to obliterate loading times in vidya
not how it works.
Even the fastest SSDs show at most a few seconds faster load speed. That's because 'loading' a game isn't just streaming assets from datastore to memory, it's actually doing processing along the way, and isn't necessarily a parallelisable process either.

I really want this to be true. You better not be memeing me

it is true. It's infact the opposite that is the meme.

Like who actually thought that data stored on an IC, with no mechanical components, would be more volatile than data stored on a platter of metal, spinning at 7200rpm with nanometer scale mechanical tolerances? It's a dumb notion and only applies to the very first stages of the product lifecycle.

From my experience, that is blatantly wrong. I still use SSDs, but I have had high quality expensive SSDs die fairly consistently after 2-3 years of read/writing large images daily. I think they died right in line with the ~200tb/500gb limits advertised by intel and samsung for the top end drives.

pic related is not a poorfag setup user

You do realize that SSDs will lose their data if powered off? My Seagate 600 Pros are rated for only 3 months powered off.

You sound like you're memeing.

>top end
>200tb of writes
my ~3 year old 480GB seagates are rated for 1.2PB and as far as enterprise class SSDs go they're fairly low end

>pic related is not a poorfag setup user
forgot my pic

Muh $70 NVMe drive

1TB 840 EVO owner here.

Hot fuck, having an SSD is so nice. I can shutdown, restart, and be back in a Discord chatroom before anyone was notified that I had left.

I sometimes forget how slow HDD's are when it comes to starting up applications, then I'd go to school (university) and remember why I don't like to do shit on their computers.

>Challenge round
My computer is on 24/7. Do I get an SSD?

Short answer: Yes.

Slightly longer answer: Even if you don't have to worry about boot times (since you'd be running 24/7), the difference in application start-up times is night and day.

Would you be constantly writing something to your SSD? Then I'd say "maybe."

It will only massively speed up any operation on your computer that involves reading or writing data while being completely silent and using a fraction of the power.

SSDs are objectively superior to HDDs in every single conceivable way outside of price per GB.

My recommendation to you would be something from Adata. They do a really good job at SSDs.

Specifically speaking, the Premier SP550 series is a good way to go.

>Tell us how much your life has improved by switching to SSDs
This much, from a 10k RPM WD Velociraptor

garbo

not really considering what i paid for it all ;)

>Specifically speaking, the Premier SP550 series is a good way to go.
Their drives are so shitty they dont even specify the number of unrecoverable read errors
adata.com/us/ssd/specification/333

stop recommending shitty equipment just because you own it

>encryption and secure data erasure requires you to trust whatever chink company made your drive
>loses data when powered off
>destroys itself faster the more you use it

no more dropping my laptop and worrying about lost data

it's already happened to me twice with HDDs before

Pulled 120gb 850 EVO today, dropped in 275gb MX300. Now dual booting win7 and Ubuntu with some breathing room, and disposed of my failing auxiliary HDD.

Increased reliability, battery life, srartup time (no 5400rpm dino drive to drag it down anymore), reduced redundance, dropped the EVO in my girlfriend's laptop and she blew me while I cloned her old drive

Eat shit HDD dinosaurs

>she blew me
thingsthatneverhappened.TIF

What did he mean by this?

>implying

I own an 840 EVO. I hadn't seen anything bad about Adata (only good things, actually), so that's why I recommended it.

>I hadn't seen anything bad about Adata
Because i'm sure you're constantly keeping abreast of a a literally who SSD brand. They can't provide a very simple specification for disk reliability yet you're retardedly recommending them.

>implying, again

>constantly keeping abreast of a a literally who SSD brand

stay btfo user

In all seriousness, I'm glad we had this discussion. Clearly I need to brush up on my shit, because there were quite a few reviews saying those drives are indeed bad.

Cheers mate.

GTA V no longer takes 5 minutes to boot up.

I'm want to buy my first SSD. Now, everything in my country is overpriced as hell and I have few options.
My brand options are:
-PCBox
-Adata
-Sandisk
-Kingston
-Markvision

Which one would you people recommend?

Just wondering why Samsung isn't on your list or also Intel. My SSDs have all come from either Intel or Samsung and they've been rock solid

Both brands cost double here than the ones I mentioned

But wouldn't it be worth it to make sure you don't get some awful ssd from some no name company?

Sandisk.

>unironically using the one game that still takes for-fucking-ever to start up even on an SSD as an example

OP, SSDs are kind of costly. In a year they're gonna be half the price per GB and you'll feel dumb for having wasted $200.

>Sandisk
Ok
>Kingston
Also ok

don't know the rest.

Hahahahahahahaha, they used to be like 1k bro

I use Crucial. When it comes to memory, they've never done me wrong.

Samsungs are solid? I've only read bad reviews about them.

Can I use an m.2 ssd with this board?

Probably just butthurt Apple shills

Even if you don't have m.2 slots you can use PCI-E adapters as long as you got some free pci-e slotz

Sandisk SSD Plus 128gb - 60 USD
Markvision SSD 128gb - 50 USD
Samsung 850 EVO 128gb - 115 USD
Intel SSD5 128gb - 83 USD

That's the local prices to USD.

Yeah I'm not seeing an m.2 slot unfortunately, I thought my motherboard would have one since it's somewhat recent. Any chance you can link me the adapter you're talking about? I'm an idiot.

Thanks, will probably go for Sandisk then.

>Any chance you can link me the adapter you're talking about? I'm an idiot.
Not going to link a certain one because I've never used them (my computer has 2 m.2 slots) but I do know they exist and it looks like the reviews on them are positive

wrong pic, sorry. Meant to just post google search for pci-e m.2 adapter

looks fine, I paid $325 for a Samsung ssd a couple months ago (see )

Do you poo on the loo?

I bought a second hand HP computer at 70$ just to watch internet videos on my TV.
I changed the HD for a SSD cuz it made an annoying sound.
Now the computer starts faster than the TV.

would you buy a pny 240gb for 99 dollars knowing it costs 70 in the US?

asking cuz this is one of the perks of living in a third world shithole

No, I pretend to be white (Argentina)

I recently pulled a 120gb M500 and dropped in a 525gb MX300. I'm already planning on dropping the old M500 on the family computer.

I need two. One I would short out from cumming on it.

Who 60TB here?

What was the point of removing the link?

i wanted to buy some cheaper SSD and i ended up with SanDisk Plus, did i fucked up? It has same components as Crucial BX100. I wanted Plextor M6V but its sold out as well.
All the newer SSDs in this price range are TLC and not MLC (or more like double) thats why i went with SanDisk. Should i stay with it or get a refund?

>Buy a Plextor because its the best
>Tell Sup Forums its the best
>Sup Forums MAH SAMSUNG
>2 years later, cant buy Plextor because they are sold out.

I went with that super generic Siliicon Power SSD as my second one. I needed more space but didnt feel like paying money for more. Its a decent drive but its a little, weird.

Sometimes It doesn't boot until I reset my machine. Sometimes wipes my boot record for shits and giggles. Sometimes boots up until windows needs to load then stops and requires a restart.

Its never outright failed. But its almost like a jester making fun of me.

I now wait less.
I don't like waiting very much.
My life has improved a bit.

i have 2 hdds and no ssd get mad

No. Too much dust and hair in it.

Been using this guy for a while now. So far no problem or issues.

Balls.

why is suddenly everyone returning to TLC?
is it better to buy shitter brand MLC or better brand TLC?

Wtf I hate hdds now

here
store where i bought my Sandisk is having a sale now, i could return my Sandisk Plus and get a Sandisk Ultra II, should i do it? former is MLC and latter is TLC.
are Sandisk reputable?
anyone has experience with them?
i just bought it few days ago for my new laptop that hasnt arrive and im afraid its gonna have terrible failure rate or something.

Balls is the proper term.
Intel 750 NVMe PCI-E reporting in.

I couldnt be happier with my pair of 3 year old samsungs at this point. They have worked flawlessly and I write so little to either that they'll hold out for a while yet.

>Intel 750 NVMe PCI-E
How much was your drive?