Best SSD for pc?

[poita]

So I'm in the process of upgrading to an SSD as my main drive.

Who has done it? Any positive/negative experiences so far?

I'm looking at a 500gb Samsung EVO850, can pick em up for around the $225 mark posted.

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[MikeCheck]

SSD is life.

Seriously it's been the most noticeable change I've ever made in all my time building pcs/using laptops.

There's not much negative about them other than the capacity which is almost a non-issue these days. Everything is snappier. Everything. It makes older hardware feel a bit more alive too - I've put some in a few generation old laptops and with a fresh install of windows it's like a brand new laptop (for the basic uses they get used for I mean).

The Evos are a solid unit for a good price, but there's faster out there if your motherboard can support it (m.2 or msata slots), but otherwise the Evos are tip top.

M

[dutchy]

Too expensive and too small if used as backup drive as this moment.

[guy 27]

Just read up about failure rates. When I got mine a year ago Microsoft one seemed to be the best.
Only using as main drive and back up everything to other drives.

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[poita]

MikeCheck Speed isn't a major thing honestly. I will be going from a mechanical 2tb to the SSD. So it's going to be a huge boost in speed.
dutchy I have about 10tb of external hdds for storage.
guy 27 that's the plan.

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[dutchy]

MikeCheck Speed isn't a major thing honestly. I will be going from a mechanical 2tb to the SSD. So it's going to be a huge boost in speed.
dutchy I have about 10tb of external hdds for storage.
guy 27 that's the plan.

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Have a library which is currently nearing 20tb. The normal discs are priced well to get a few tb yearly.

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[poita]

Mine are a mix, have a couple of single drives and a couple of raid setups for the important stuff.

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[MikeCheck]

Yeah in that case I rekon the Evo's fine.

M

[dutchy]

Did i read about 10tb ones recently? Wouldn't mind swapping all of mine for 3 of those 😀

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[poita]

Largest atm is a 16TB from Samsung, around the $7k US mark!!

They showed them off in a server on launch, 48 in total hahahah. 768TB of storage!

[Raisin]

The Samsung EVO drives are great. I've installed them in a ton of machines and they all seem to be running happily. Great bang for the buck too. The SSDs in my home PC are a bit older, I have an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB for Windows and an OCZ Vertex 4 240GB for programs. I'm just holding out until they give up the ghost so I can upgrade to a new single 500GB Samsung drive. The 60GB one is 6 years old now and still going!

Once you go SSD though, you can never go back.

[dutchy]

Well that is just too expensive. For now a few hundred for a 3tb old fashioned backup sounds better than a few hundred more for a 500gb. Gheez Raisin 240gig, you have no porn i assume?

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[Raisin]

Well that is just too expensive. For now a few hundred for a 3tb old fashioned backup sounds better than a few hundred more for a 500gb. Gheez Raisin 240gig, you have no porn i assume?

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Haha, that is just for programs, I have a couple of drives in RAID for my Z20LET pics. ;)

[dutchy]

Haha, that is just for programs, I have a couple of drives in RAID for my Z20LET pics. ;)

Me too :arf:

[MikeCheck]

I'm starting to struggle a bit with space with my GS60 for my main drive (has a 1tb secondary and a m.2 primary) so sometime over this year I'll probably replace it with a 500gb.

Only reason mine fills up so quick is steam library coupled with massive work files :(

M

[poita]

So pulled the trigger on the evo850 500gb drive.

[poita]

Turned up today

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[Purplehazeffc]

Really good SSD drives they are. Right up there with the Intel 730 series.
I can't see you having much trouble with that one :)

[poita]

Came with all the cloning software too, which is nice. Guess I know what I'll be doing over the weekend.

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[chris_r]

I have a Sammy 840 EVO 256GB SSD in my desktop. Wicked little drive that one.

I don't know about you guys, but I did notice on the transition from Windows 7 to 10, the performance of this drive really picked up.

[poita]

Running Windows 10, did a speed test on my 2tb. So will do a comparison for funnies.

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[poita]

So for funnies, here is a comparison speed test

[dutchy]

wow, big difference.

[poita]

Managed to get the random read/write speeds up much higher with some changes to settings.

They are sitting at 97307 and 84416 respectively now.

[dutchy]

does that mean you can now watch 3 porn movies at the same time ?

[poita]

If I hook up a 3rd screen, yes.

Becuase who wants to watch small windowed porn

[MikeCheck]

What'd you switch around just out of interest?

But that's pretty awesome - SSDs are life, seriously.

M

[Purplehazeffc]

If I hook up a 3rd screen, yes.

Becuase who wants to watch small windowed porn

Pfft. 3rd or even 2nd screen porn. 3D porn is the way. Umm yes it is available :popcorn: :steve:

[poita]

What'd you switch around just out of interest?

But that's pretty awesome - SSDs are life, seriously.

M
Installed the Samsung SSD software, has a max performance mode. So swapped it to that.

Pfft. 3rd or even 2nd screen porn. 3D porn is the way. Umm yes it is available :popcorn: :steve:
3D gives me a headache, VR is where it's at now.

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[Purplehazeffc]

Installed the Samsung SSD software, has a max performance mode. So swapped it to that.

3D gives me a headache, VR is where it's at now.

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Yeah true that. I have only used the 3d part of my tv for prob a max of 30mins in 3 years.
So going by that I have only watched 3-4 scenes lol :)

Not sure how VR will go just as yet. From what I have seen I don't think it will be for me

[dutchy]

3d vr porn.... hmmmm.

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[hunk]

Always bought Samsung SSD, never had a problem.

[hunk]

You can check out this site when you're looking up SSD to get. http://pc4u.org/best-ssd/