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Just wondering how much faster is an SSD as compared to a traditional HDD like a WD caviar Black. Should I go SSD or just buy a large capacity HDD all call it well enough ?

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Like night and day..... if its used for the OS.

 

For it to be effective you really need an SSD+large HDD

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Like night and day..... if its used for the OS.

 

For it to be effective you really need an SSD+large HDD

Oh sexy. This is turning on my inner geek LOL.

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The most popular setup for gaming PCs right now is a 120gb SSD and a 1tb or 2tb hdd.

 

Get a low-capacity SSD for your operating system, drivers and your most used applications. then store games and documents on the 1tb HDD

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If used for the OS the speed of your system drastically increases. It just feels so much more responsive.

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The most popular setup for gaming PCs right now is a 120gb SSD and a 1tb or 2tb hdd.

 

Get a low-capacity SSD for your operating system, drivers and your most used applications. then store games and documents on the 1tb HDD

I am thinking of installing modded Skyrim on the SSD cause I have a sneaking suspicion that it will make that game perform a hell of allot better.

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I am thinking of installing modded Skyrim on the SSD cause I have a sneaking suspicion that it will make that game perform a hell of allot better.

it's mostly going to improve loading times, but not performance per se

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If used for the OS the speed of your system drastically increases. It just feels so much more responsive.

I want no lag from mouse to when you click on the icon and try to load up any application. Steam kinda takes a bit to load up on my WD Black drive.

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I am thinking of installing modded Skyrim on the SSD cause I have a sneaking suspicion that it will make that game perform a hell of allot better.

 

load times only. you wont see an FPS boost 

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it's mostly going to improve loading times, but not performance per se

Back in the day's of Oblivion I had 5 HDD in RAID0 and load times were near enough instantaneous.

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load times only. you wont see an FPS boost 

Load times are kind of a bane in that game right now for me on a WD Black drive with tons of mods installed.

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SSD for OS, I could never go back now. 

 

I'm running 240gb SSD for OS and some applications and my 1tb SSHD for everything else. (I think this is the best combo)

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Just get one. You will not regret it. Even in a netbook where the performance is literally the same as a normal HDD, the performance increase is noticeable. Everything loads quicker and the OS feels more responsive.

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SSD for OS, I could never go back now. 

 

I'm running 240gb SSD for OS and some applications and my 1tb SSHD for everything else. (I think this is the best combo)

I keep hearing great things about SSDs to the tune of users saying that it's the best all around upgrade they have ever done.

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I want no lag from mouse to when you click on the icon and try to load up any application. Steam kinda takes a bit to load up on my WD Black drive.

There's always going to be a little bit of time when you click on an application, but the time that it takes is DRAMATICALLY reduced

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I keep hearing great things about SSDs to the tune of users saying that it's the best all around upgrade they have ever done.

It's a great upgrade, but not the best i've done.

 

550ti -> 290 is the best upgrade I've done

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It's a great upgrade, but not the best i've done.

 

550ti -> 290 is the best upgrade I've done

I would interject and state that I said best all around upgrade to your PC but ya the 290 would be the best upgrade for gaming that's for sure but an SSD would make measurable difference in almost everything you do not just gaming.

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How much faster? A lot.

 

SSD's only really represent a modest improvement in transfer rate compared to rotating disk drives, in the order of between 2-6x or so of an increase, this isn't really where the advantage of SSD's comes from (though it's surely nice to have), the advantage comes in the IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) SSD's can do.

 

Most typical 7200rpm hard drives hit around 100 IOPS, with the fastest 15k RPM drives reaching 200 IOPS.

Even the cheapest SSD's these days can achieve two orders of magnitude more, starting at 10,000 IOPS, with many drives boasting 100,000 read IOPS.

 

This is why boot times and program load times are so much faster with SSD's, they're able to access those files up to 1000 times faster than a hard drive could hope to.

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Seems like the MX100 256 is the one to logically go for when all things are considered

"Legit Bottom Line: Crucial has done an excellent job with the MX100 series, offering up a very budget friendly drive with performance and features that we would expect from drives that cost much more.
Read more at http://www.legitreviews.com/crucial-mx100-256gb-512gb-ssd-review_143984/8#gXQrcShpXMgdu1v5.99"
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