Affordable SSDs vs HDDs

[HazardTheDutchAD]

So as you can currently probably see I am very new to the forums. But recently my PC bumped into an issue because I stupidly decided to run a virtual machine on the same HDD as the current Windows C drive (Yes, I know... rookie mistake).Therefore as you probably could have guessed when it got to the installing stage of the virtual machine, it decided to break my hard drive completely to the point where it's just jumping and my computer wouldn't even start up.

 

So because this issue actually occurred, I'm thinking of getting some possible upgrade to my PC... and I was wondering would it be worth upgrading from a HDD to an SSD drive, to be used as my C drive? I'm not bothered about having to transfer files over from the broken HDD ,because I have been told that I can use a HDD reader which are relatively cheap on Amazon.

 

If I do go ahead and purchase an SSD does anyone have any recommendations for affordable SSDs, and what would be the minimum space I'd need? I'm probably going to be purchasing another hard drive after this issue as well, so the SSD will not be my main storage drive.

 

Thank you for the help and I appreciate any responses.

[Electronics Wizardy]

A ssd will be so much faster,  Id go ssd if at all possible.

 

What type of ssd? m.2 or 2.5? sata or nvme?

 

Id probably go 500gb if you can.

[HazardTheDutchAD]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

A ssd will be so much faster,  Id go ssd if at all possible.

 

What type of ssd? m.2 or 2.5? sata or nvme?

 

Id probably go 500gb if you can.

I'm not a massive tech nerd with PC's, but I do a slight bit to do with computers. I'm trying to keep with affordable so I'm not sure which type of SSD would be the best and the size would roughly be about 250 GB.

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, HazardTheDutchAD said:

because I have been told that I can use a HDD reader which are relatively cheap on Amazon

are we talking a laptop or desktop? For a desktop you don't need to buy any reader.

[HazardTheDutchAD]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

are we talking a laptop or desktop? For a desktop you don't need to buy any reader.

This would be for a desktop affordable gaming PC. But I don't want to risk the hard drive possibly causing more damage to my computer.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, HazardTheDutchAD said:

This would be for a desktop affordable gaming PC. But I don't want to risk the hard drive possibly causing more damage to my computer.

a hdd won't damage the rest of the system.

 

Do you have a budget for the drive?
 

What system specs?

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, HazardTheDutchAD said:

This would be for a desktop affordable gaming PC. But I don't want to risk the hard drive possibly causing more damage to my computer.

it won't damage the system.

 

All you need to do is connect the new SSD via a sata cable and clone everything over, although that's not as good as a fresh install if you can help it, since you'll cleanse any junk you've accumulated.

[HazardTheDutchAD]

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

a hdd won't damage the rest of the system.

 

Do you have a budget for the drive?
 

What system specs?

I'm hoping to to get an affordable SSD for roughly £150 or less. My current specifications:

 

Intel Pentium g4560

12GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RAM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 

Kolink Core ATX power supply (kl-c500)

MSI-H110M Pro-VD Plus motherboard 

Intel Pentium G4560 default fan (came with CPU)

[HazardTheDutchAD]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

it won't damage the system.

 

All you need to do is connect the new SSD via a sata cable and clone everything over, although that's not as good as a fresh install if you can help it, since you'll cleanse any junk you've accumulated.

I'm probably not going to clone everything over because obviously I'd probably be back to square one with the HDD containing there are duplicated system files which caused my HDD to get bricked in the first place. All I really need to save off that computer is my documents and any personal files that I have. I don't really care about the applications because I can easily install them again.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, HazardTheDutchAD said:

I'm hoping to to get an affordable SSD for roughly £150 or less. My current specifications:

 

Intel Pentium g4560

12GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RAM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 

Kolink Core ATX power supply (kl-c500)

Intel Pentium G4560 default fan (came with CPU)

what board?

 

How much storage space do you use?
 

ID be tempted to get something like a 1tb 660p here, and just go ssd only. Going ssd only just makes everything so much faster.

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, HazardTheDutchAD said:

containing there are duplicated system files which caused my HDD to get bricked in the first place.

that won't hurt a hdd at all. You can have multiple installs on one system, and it will work fine.

 

And you can do whatever you want file wise on a hdd, and it won't affect its life span. The hdd failure seems liek a random chance.

[HazardTheDutchAD]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

that won't hurt a hdd at all. You can have multiple installs on one system, and it will work fine.

 

And you can do whatever you want file wise on a hdd, and it won't affect its life span. The hdd failure seems liek a random chance.

So you're saying that because I was using a virtual machine and it was installing additional Windows files on my HDD might not have been the problem, but it might have just been the end of it's time?

[HazardTheDutchAD]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what board?

MSI-H110M Pro-VD Plus

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, HazardTheDutchAD said:

So you're saying that because I was using a virtual machine and it was installing additional Windows files on my HDD might not have been the problem, but it might have just been the end of it's time?

Yea it was probably random chance. Installing a vm can't hurt a hdd

 

2 minutes ago, HazardTheDutchAD said:

MSI-H110M Pro-VD Plus

Then id get something like a mx500. Get the biggest you can, more space is always nice.

[TheGlenlivet]

4 minutes ago, HazardTheDutchAD said:

So you're saying that that because I was using a virtual machine and it was installing additional Windows files on my HDD might not have been the problem, but it might have just been the end of it's time?

Yeah.  A VM should have created a virtual disk of some kind and installed to JUST THAT.

The C : portion of the HDD shouldn't have been affected.