SSD's are so overrated.

[CowsGoRoar]

My PC boots from shut down in 5 seconds with a hard drive thanks to Winows 8 and FastBoot. SSD's are so overrated, literally everyone is telling each other to get it. Until it gets to around $0.2 per GB, I won't be getting one.

 

And there's this one guy that tells someone to get a GTX 760 and a 120 GB SSD even though he's on a smaller budget. 

[Enderman]

I would like to see proof of these 5 seconds. Did you count them really slowly?

Or maybe you didn't start the timer right as you pressed the power button till all programs are loaded in the desktop...

[Jodomcfrodo]

u wot m8?

[PC-NOOB]

Launching applications is wehre it shines.

Ex: Eclipse takes ~20 seconds to launch on a hard drive

Almost 2 seconds with ssd

[DeViLzzz]

I think you meant Windows 8. I really hate that I liked that comment with the spelling mistake being there. As for SSD drives many a time I see them recommended for builds where really it is not that beneficial to the user based on what they are going for.

[Imabigmac]

Its not just about boot times. I mean it was until windows 8 and fast came out. Now its more about how fast can you load into bf4. 

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[c3p0]

Oh. You better hide from the flamewar for that statement. SSD's went cheap so why not. 1Tb HDD 40€, 64GB SSD 70€

[Kamina]

Pfft... m.2 SSD is where it's at.

[Clyne]

I be getting one when i have enough money. Hopefully I'll get a ssd at the same time when i get my Corsair K70 RGB and M60 RGB.

[LinusTech]

SSD performance has nothing to do with boot time. Who shuts down their computers these days anyway? Modern machines sleep and wake so fast and use maybe a couple of watts when sleeping.

[Snickerzz]

Most people count there boot times from post to when desktop apps have fully loaded, not when your just first hit the desktop

[LancerBG]

I agree that they are over rated. I went from a 2tb black to a 1tb evo and "yawn"  I dont regret buying it but damn people talk about them as if they are a godsend..kind of like they do about mechanical keyboards, yeah good but damn relax. Only legit reason I love ssd's is because they put out a lot less heat then those damn caviar blacks. 

[Jodomcfrodo]

SSD performance has nothing to do with boot time. Who shuts down their computers these days anyway? Modern machines sleep and wake so fast and use maybe a couple of watts when sleeping.

Wait SSD's have nothing to do with boot time? I thought it was the biggest factor in boot times...

[ZacDaMan72]

SSDs make using a computer snappier.

[Aniallation]

SSD performance has nothing to do with boot time. Who shuts down their computers these days anyway? Modern machines sleep and wake so fast and use maybe a couple of watts when sleeping.

Agreed. My school laptop has a 5400RPM mechanical hard drive and it resumes from sleep (this is Windows 7 by the way) in 3 seconds. Compared to my other laptop which has a 120GB mSATA SSD, which takes 2 seconds to resume from sleep in Windows 8. Yes it's a 33% improvement, but when it's this quick does it really matter?

 

The important thing is loading just programs like Microsoft Office programs takes about 10-20 seconds on a mechanical hard drive, whereas on an SSD it's pretty much instant. 

[ForsakenLive]

Boot times are not what most users worry about when they recommend and buy SSDs.

Every single time the system has to read data off a hard drive you get into a bottleneck, it's not just when you open a game, every time you use the OS for something lot of files services and programs get executed, they are a ton and small but until they load it takes seconds.

When you find yourself waiting for those small seconds for the system to do something, the majority of times it's caused thanks to data not being on the memory that has to load from the hard drive.

Even when browsing, cached and temporal files get loaded up much quickly when your storage is faster.

We recommend and push SSDs forwards thanks to this reason, constantly your system faces bottlenecks from the hard drive. This is why people says "my system is feels more snappy" not for a couple of seconds on boot times.

[Aniallation]

Wait SSD's have nothing to do with boot time? I thought it was the biggest factor in boot times...

Depends what you mean by boot. In cold boot, yes. But again, who does that nowadays? Sleep is most often good enough for desktops and laptops alike. And regardless of whether you use an SSD or a HDD, boot from sleep is only a few seconds at most anyways.

[alby800]

SSD performance has nothing to do with boot time. Who shuts down their computers these days anyway? Modern machines sleep and wake so fast and use maybe a couple of watts when sleeping.

[Jodomcfrodo]

Depends what you mean by boot. In cold boot, yes. But again, who does that nowadays? Sleep is most often good enough for desktops and laptops alike. And regardless of whether you use an SSD or a HDD, boot from sleep is only a few seconds at most anyways.

ahhh ok I thought it was form cold boot.

[SkilledRebuilds]

All I gotta say is " HDD Access time" delays.

No thanks.

But yeah, I have a Disk Monitor gadget, it's the last thing that loads, and also shows me incremental usage until its really in idle at desktop.

2s to get past Raid/Bios, 2-3 seconds to paint the Windows logo, another 3s getting in and loading the apps and I'm in actual idle mode.

256GB 840Pro Raid0, although booting is the same speed with one or two. Instantaneous access to the files craps on standard HDD's access times.

I've run Single/Dualcores on 7200rpm drives fine, and your right, they can get people by with ease, as long as their not 5400rpm drives.

Each to his own, but the OP statement... is kinda begging for a bad response from the other users of the forum.

[GhostWindGamer]

There not needed but there nice to have

[aricleather]

It's been said again and again:

The only reason people purchase SSDs is so they can get the vehicles first in BF4. 'Nuff said.

[Fred Castellum]

Once you've used a SSD your not going to want to go back to a traditional hard drive.... 

[Aniallation]

Most people count there boot times from post to when desktop apps have fully loaded, not when your just first hit the desktop

On an SSD, by the time you hit the desktop, it's only a few more seconds before everything's loaded. However unlike a slow hard drive, with an SSD you can pretty much start working as soon as you hit the desktop while everything continues to load, and not take that big of a performance hit, compared to a hard drive where your PC becomes quite slow until you wait for most of the things have loaded.