SSD questions

SgtSparks · June 19, 2015

Does having more space on a ssd effect boot times getting a 50gb ssd and if it doesn't probably gonna go to a 200gb ssd

DarkBlade2117 · June 19, 2015

Um. No? Get a 256gb Samsung 850 EVo or ?Crucial BX100.

Sakkura · June 19, 2015

The smallest capacity of a given SSD model (Crucial MX200, Samsung 850 Evo etc.) will typically be somewhat slower, but not something that will make a really noticeable difference to the boot time.

Swndlr · June 19, 2015

Probably not. I have a 128GB MX100 and its still very very fast.

STRMfrmXMN · June 19, 2015

Does having more space on a ssd effect boot times getting a 50gb ssd and if it doesn't probably gonna go to a 200gb ssd

Sometimes. It's often noticeable in larger drives that you get a faster experience. Some drives, like the one from OCZ, are two smaller drives combined to get a bigger capacity and run faster. Can't remember which of the OCZ drives I'm talking about.

Generally you shouldn't get anything smaller than 120GB anyways even if you are on a budget. You can get cheap A-DATA and OCZ drives.

JakLawrence · June 19, 2015

You can pick up 120GB SSDs for pence (or cents, for you lot across the pond, or across the smaller pond to my west) compared to what they cost say 2 years ago. Size won't matter, what will matter is that you're using SATA II (3GB/s) or SATA III (6GB/s) and your SSD has good read/write speeds (for instance, the previously mentioned Samsung EVOs have something like 500mbps (ish, I think?!) read/write.