SSD help

[BigChimp97]

Hii guys, recently my hard drive decided to die on me and ive been needing to buy an SSD for a while so I think this is the time. Ive come down to two SSD's either the 120gb Samsung 840 evo and the 250gb Samsung 840 evo (if you guys have any othee recommendations then please list them). The 250gb is £93 and the 120gb is £56, getting the 250gb would be spending most of my money and would then leave me with less money for my 1tb hard drive..... so basically is the speed difference of the 250gb and the 120gb that much to notice? I will only put battlefield 4 on my ssd, most games I dont care how quickly they load, theyre fine for me

Thanks guys!!

[Saladin]

@BigChimp97 Your SSD should hold your OS, and your major programs, and possibly 1-2 games. A 120 will fill up pretty fast but if you aren't storing media on it you should be ok. The 240 gig SSDs are at a really good price point right now which is a good plus in their favor, but if you are worried about the cost you should be fine with a 120. Hope this helps.

[Tech_Dreamer]

have you tried connecting the hdd as a slave and clear out the partition?

 

On the subject of ssd: i'd go for higher spaced one :blink:, since they perfome somewhat similar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shady ninja

[BigChimp97]

Why the hell is this post in the water cooling section -.- using my phone for this is so annoying

[MrBucket101]

Water cooled SSD FTW!

[BigChimp97]

have you tried connecting the hdd as a slave and clear out the partition?

 

On the subject of ssd: i'd go for higher spaced one :blink:, since they perfome somewhat similar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shady ninja

Is there much of a speed difference? And ill only be using it as a booy drive and for battlefield 4 as the mp load timea were pretty darn slow on my dead hdd,apart from that my other games were fine and about the turning the drive into a slave and clearing out partitions? I havent got a clue how i'd do that,it also makes ticking noises when I boot up, which is apparrently the hdd trying to read but it cant because a controller's gone in it.... I think thats right haha

[BigChimp97]

Water cooled SSD FTW!

Being forced to use the full version of the forum on my phone -.- and im mis typing/ misclicking alot

[MrBucket101]

Being forced to use the full version of the forum on my phone -.- and im mis typing/ misclicking alot

lol i do that as well, but if it's all the same i'd still love to see a waterblock for an SSD

[Tech_Dreamer]

Is there much of a speed difference? And ill only be using it as a booy drive and for battlefield 4 as the mp load timea were pretty darn slow on my dead hdd,apart from that my other games were fine and about the turning the drive into a slave and clearing out partitions? I havent got a clue how i'd do that,it also makes ticking noises when I boot up, which is apparrently the hdd trying to read but it cant because a controller's gone in it.... I think thats right haha

 

they're the same model ssd's so, i don't think there's a perfomance difference. as in all the cases it's max speed is upto 320-540mBps i believe unless you have two of em and is configured in "raid 0"

 

on the spinning hdd, that clicking noise that you hear is the Hdd spindle resetting from/to the begining possibly due to corrupted sector while booting up. single clicking noise means there's a chance of recovery by attaching it as a seconadry drive and by passing the boot region data corruption/sector error, i guess you haven't been defragging you hdd as often many others do.or due to its age or the voltage fluctuations in your area.

 

if you're hearing continuous clicky noise like the second hand needle of a clock,then, its probably irrecoverable.

 

Best thing you can do is attach the clicky hdd to another pc with its operating system as primary boot drive and yours as a secondary drive (you can set that in the bios on that pc or plug in directly and on system manager scan for hardware changes & the drive will pop-up if it's detectable), and see if the drive is visible in one of the partitions the partitions and start backing up.

 and back up your contents to a fresh drive/external on another hdd make sure it has enough space tho.

 

if the drive doesnt show up anyways (after many botched attempts) , you can try the good old disc in the freezer method for a day, but its risky,i think linus did an old video on it,

 

 

 

post back if you need step by step instructions, me or someone else on this forum will help you out through that.

 

 

 

 

 

a ninja dices his enemies

[BigChimp97]

they're the same model ssd's so, i don't think there's a perfomance difference. as in all the cases it's max speed is upto 320-540mBps i believe unless you have two of em and is configured in "raid 0"

 

on the spinning hdd, that clicking noise that you hear is the Hdd spindle resetting from/to the begining possibly due to corrupted sector while booting up. single clicking noise means there's a chance of recovery by attaching it as a seconadry drive and by passing the boot region data corruption/sector error, i guess you haven't been defragging you hdd as often many others do.or due to its age or the voltage fluctuations in your area.

 

if you're hearing continuous clicky noise like the second hand needle of a clock,then, its probably irrecoverable.

 

Best thing you can do is attach the clicky hdd to another pc with its operating system as primary boot drive and yours as a secondary drive (you can set that in the bios on that pc or plug in directly and on system manager scan for hardware changes & the drive will pop-up if it's detectable), and see if the drive is visible in one of the partitions the partitions and start backing up.

 and back up your contents to a fresh drive/external on another hdd make sure it has enough space tho.

 

if the drive doesnt show up anyways (after many botched attempts) , you can try the good old disc in the freezer method for a day, but its risky,i think linus did an old video on it,

 

 

 

post back if you need step by step instructions, me or someone else on this forum will help you out through that.

 

 

 

 

 

a ninja dices his enemies

Woah man,thanks for spending the time to write all that out its very much apprecated, but I dont have any hard drives around the house. But I known someone who has so ill have to take it round there and give it a go but thanks ahanks again for that! Coming back to the SSD ill probably just get the 120gb one,save some money for a new 1tb hdd if this one has actually packed in. (What I may do is upload a video to youtube so you can actually hear and see exactly whats going wrong,if thats ok with you obviously)

[Tech_Dreamer]

Woah man,thanks for spending the time to write all that out its very much apprecated, but I dont have any hard drives around the house. But I known someone who has so ill have to take it round there and give it a go but thanks ahanks again for that! Coming back to the SSD ill probably just get the 120gb one,save some money for a new 1tb hdd if this one has actually packed in. (What I may do is upload a video to youtube so you can actually hear and see exactly whats going wrong,if thats ok with you obviously)

 

 

cool,

 

but , if you don't have that much important data to recover from the hard drive, i'd suggest you're better off not pursuing to recover and restore the hard drive,it's frustrating and takes up too much of your time,  but try anyways to evoke that geek spirit in you to fix thngs. :blink:

 

 

if  you're going for a new spinning hdd , make sure that you defragment all partitions atleast once a month (or 2 weeks) , and keep the physical drive oriented horizontally at all times (for best results)

in case of ssd , disc defragmentation is bad for the SSD module, so keep that in mind with the new buy. :mellow: ssd doesn't require that much of a maintenance.

 

 

 

a ninja always has a backup

[BigChimp97]

cool,

 

but , if you don't have that much important data to recover from the hard drive, i'd suggest you're better off not pursuing to recover and restore the hard drive,it's frustrating and takes up too much of your time,  but try anyways to evoke that geek spirit in you to fix thngs. :blink:

 

 

if  you're going for a new spinning hdd , make sure that you defragment all partitions atleast once a month (or 2 weeks) , and keep the physical drive oriented horizontally at all times (for best results)

in case of ssd , disc defragmentation is bad for the SSD module, so keep that in mind with the new buy. :mellow: ssd doesn't require that much of a maintenance.

 

 

 

a ninja always has a backup

Luckily a bought a portable hard drive and its got all my school work on it, and to be honest I didnt know that you had to defrag you hdd that often at all I cant remember the last time I did it.... but thanks ill probably get the 120gb SSD for a booy and bf4. Luckily my mates got a qtb hard drive spare that he only used for 2 weeks, he said I could have it for £20

[Leonard]

Hii guys, recently my hard drive decided to die on me and ive been needing to buy an SSD for a while so I think this is the time. Ive come down to two SSD's either the 120gb Samsung 840 evo and the 250gb Samsung 840 evo (if you guys have any othee recommendations then please list them). The 250gb is £93 and the 120gb is £56, getting the 250gb would be spending most of my money and would then leave me with less money for my 1tb hard drive..... so basically is the speed difference of the 250gb and the 120gb that much to notice? I will only put battlefield 4 on my ssd, most games I dont care how quickly they load, theyre fine for me

Thanks guys!!

This doesn't necessarily mean the ssd is dead. This happens sometimes when OCing with BSOD that contain page fault errors. Try properly clearing your CMOS and doing a reboot and see how it goes. Hope all goes well.

[BigChimp97]

This doesn't necessarily mean the ssd is dead. This happens sometimes when OCing with BSOD that contain page fault errors. Try properly clearing your CMOS and doing a reboot and see how it goes. Hope all goes well.

Oh ok thanks man!

[terrytek]

As it turns out, I saw a 250 GB EVO for 110 bucks. On TigerDirect.