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Just get a cheapo 120gb ssd. It will be fine. Unless you download a lot of stuff. There's no way it is gonna perform worse than that old HDD.

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Okay so yesterday my old 500 GB Seagate drive died on me and I want to buy a cheap SSD to replace it. But the motherboard does not have AHCI support and hence, no TRIM support either.

 

So would the SSD performance decrease after a year or two because I can't enable TRIM or would the firmware or the software that comes with the SSD, for example, the Samsung Magician one, be enough to sustain the SSD performance overtime without TRIM? 

 

I don't really need much storage on that system as it mainly gets used by my mother for web browsing and some office work. So getting a 64 or 120 GB SSD is ideal instead of a 500 GB hard drive. So, should I buy one or just get a good old hard drive?

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Just get a cheapo 120gb ssd. It will be fine. Unless you download a lot of stuff. There's no way it is gonna perform worse than that old HDD.

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Buy a ssd, get the mx100. It is insanely good for it's price point.

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Yes, always SSD.

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Just get a cheapo 120gb ssd. It will be fine. Unless you download a lot of stuff. There's no way it is gonna perform worse than that old HDD.

 

 

Buy a ssd, get the mx100. It is insanely good for it's price point.

 

 

Yes, always SSD.

 

Great! Thank you all. I'll be buying the 840 Evo. The Crucial one isn't available here.  :(​ 

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Great! Thank you all. I'll be buying the 840 Evo. The Crucial one isn't available here.  :(​ 

The 840 is awesome too!

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