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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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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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.
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Too expensive and too small if used as backup drive as this moment.
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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Mine are a mix, have a couple of single drives and a couple of raid setups for the important stuff.
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Yeah in that case I rekon the Evo's fine.
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Did i read about 10tb ones recently? Wouldn't mind swapping all of mine for 3 of those 😀
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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!