should i buy a WD Green 240GB Boot drive SSD or something with DRAM

[BionicSeaSerpent]

should i be getting a DRAMless WD Green to replace my WD Blue 500GB HDD from 10  years ago or should i go for an MX500 for both Boot and Games drives? my old Boot drive croaked. (Pictured below) and now i'm stuck with just a boot drive now

[PDifolco]

What's your budget ? 250GB is pretty small even for a boot only drive...

 

Can't figure how ppl do with less than 1TB

 

[BionicSeaSerpent]

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

What's your budget ? 250GB is pretty small even for a boot only drive...

 

Can't figure how ppl do with less than 1TB

 

i don't have a set budget, its not likely i'll be able to buy anything anyway but i'm looking to get Boot and Games SSDs. what i currently have is the 240GB WD Green for boot and the MX500 1TB. i don't have too big a Steam library anyways so i'm not willing to Spend 200AUD+ on a 2TB SSD even though it would be a great to have. the total with the Green and MX500 comes up to 165 AUD. 

[DigitalGoat]

18 minutes ago, BionicSeaSerpent said:

should i be getting a DRAMless WD Green to replace my WD Blue 500GB HDD from 10  years ago or should i go for an MX500 for both Boot and Games drives? my old Boot drive croaked. (Pictured below) and now i'm stuck with just a boot drive now

Honestly questions like this are totally subjective, buy what you need that is in your budget. If you have unlimited funds (or as good as for this example) then buy what you want. Work out how much room you need for your Windows install, apps, games and docs, images, films etc. Decide on a layout, do you want to keep Windows separate from games? Then a two disk setup, otherwise just one disk and partition it.

The answer to the question of how much space you need is only answerable by you.

Do you need the performance of an SSD + DRAM or is a DRAM less drive perfectly adequate for your needs? Look at some reviews of drives that are not extreme gamer centric type reviews (Techtesters for example have some excellent reviews for a range of uses) once you have decided on a drive to double check it is suitable and worth your money.

As far as needing massive drives, well, I have been using a 500Gb boot drive for over 5 years now and it has less than 40Gb in use, as I said, subjective.

[PDifolco]

13 minutes ago, BionicSeaSerpent said:

i don't have a set budget, its not likely i'll be able to buy anything anyway but i'm looking to get Boot and Games SSDs. what i currently have is the 240GB WD Green for boot and the MX500 1TB. i don't have too big a Steam library anyways so i'm not willing to Spend 200AUD+ on a 2TB SSD even though it would be a great to have. the total with the Green and MX500 comes up to 165 AUD. 

Errm but then what are you asking if you already have the drives ??

[TukangUsapEmenq]

Get the 500 GB to 1 TB one, with the one of you feel it's enough, agree with @DigitalGoat as it's subjective. I'm using a 480 GB as both boot and game drive and, well, sometimes it's not enough, but it's good to have one for the games you want to load fast. Anything else's on my 1 TB HDD though.

 

Could take the MX500 instead of the WD Green though, I used the M.2 128 GB WD Green (gave it to my bro now) and they actually sucks and slow for a SSD.

[BionicSeaSerpent]

1 minute ago, DigitalGoat said:

Honestly questions like this are totally subjective, buy what you need that is in your budget. If you have unlimited funds (or as good as for this example) then buy what you want. Work out how much room you need for your Windows install, apps, games and docs, images, films etc. Decide on a layout, do you want to keep Windows separate from games? Then a two disk setup, otherwise just one disk and partition it.

The answer to the question of how much space you need is only answerable by you.

Do you need the performance of an SSD + DRAM or is a DRAM less drive perfectly adequate for your needs? Look at some reviews of drives that are not extreme gamer centric type reviews (Techtesters for example have some excellent reviews for a range of uses) once you have decided on a drive to double check it is suitable and worth your money.

As far as needing massive drives, well, I have been using a 500Gb boot drive for over 5 years now and it has less than 40Gb in use, as I said, subjective.

well i have both Windows and Manjaro installed to my 500GB Boot drive and Windows uses 90GB normally. partitioning 50/50 should work fine on a 240GB ssd. i do game, most Taxing thing i'm playing is GTA V and my Poor GT540M can barely handle 720P Low 1/2 scaling at more than 15 FPS. these drives are SATA II, i was just curious if a DRAMless SSD is going to be any faster than that, thats what will influence my Purchase.

[BionicSeaSerpent]

2 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

Get the 500 GB to 1 TB one, with the one of you feel it's enough, agree with @DigitalGoat as it's subjective. I'm using a 480 GB as both boot and game drive and, well, sometimes it's not enough, but it's good to have one for the games you want to load fast. Anything else's on my 1 TB HDD though.

 

Could take the MX500 instead of the WD Green though, I used the M.2 128 GB WD Green (gave it to my bro now) and they actually sucks and slow for a SSD.

but both my Drives are SATA II and i have never had an SSD in a System of my own. it'll surely be reasonably faster right? that's what i'm looking For. 

[Stahlmann]

As long as your drive is an SSD, you won't notice a difference between one with or without a DRAM in real-world useage. There are situations where it will become apparent, but in the end any SSD will be worlds faster and especially more responsive than any HDD. At least for a normal OS boot drive.

[BionicSeaSerpent]

11 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

As long as your drive is an SSD, you won't notice a difference between one with or without a DRAM in real-world useage. There are situations where it will become apparent, but in the end any SSD will be worlds faster and especially more responsive than any HDD. At least for a normal OS boot drive.

especially on an i5-GT laptop like mine that's 10 years old and runs drives off of SATA II (Drives being the SATA II Bottleneck)

PS: your PFP is cute BTW. love it.