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In the mind of UvularCaep, Everything = Boot times and Load times.

Of course! Everything goes much faster and smoother, and for extra storage I have other hdd's.

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Let's say I wanted to have a 2 hour gaming session. Boot on PC, open game, annnnnd SSD is useless now. I don't know about you, but I am not opening and closing programs every 5 seconds. And SSD gives you about 2 min max more productivity/gaming time.

You have a game with loading screens? Skyrim? DA:I? Halo. Everything...

 

I've spent HOURS with hard drives on Elder scroll game loading screens alone. SSD's make all of that massively insanely faster.

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Other than boot times and load times.... That is literally the majority of the shit you wait for... 

 

Open office? SSD makes it so so so much faster. Loading screen in a game? So so so much faster. 

 

SSD's let you actually do what you got on the computer to do instead of sitting around waiting for it to let you.

 

 

Say its a 10-20 (and that's being really really generous to hard drives) second difference when opening word, and you open word about once every other day. Over the course of two years you save a hour of time, and massive frustration.

 

And the access times... upwards of 2-6 seconds versus a max load time of only a few milliseconds.

OK you are being stupid now. £50 MINIMUM for 30min saved over a year.. YAY LETS DO IT OMG IT IS A AMAZING GUYS HYPE HYPE HYPE. Also you are severely underestimating HDDs. I have a WD Blue, and can open word in under 10 seconds, easily.

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OK you are being stupid now. £50 MINIMUM for 30min saved over a year.. YAY LETS DO IT OMG IT IS A AMAZING GUYS HYPE HYPE HYPE. Also you are severely underestimating HDDs. I have a WD Blue, and can open word in under 10 seconds, easily.

It's every single action. Everything.... Hell I've noticed significantly better resource utilization when torrenting in the background (only completely legal and opensource stuff btw...) And playing games, where on my hdd only build access times clog up and make everything else super slow.

The single biggest thing though is going to be loading screens like I said. Hours on skyrim, hours on Swtor, hours on da:I... The little time transactions add up so fast....

It's the idea of opportunity cost really. I tend to value my time at about 10 dollars an hour, which makes ssds absolute no brainers over the course of their life span.

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It's every single action. Everything.... Hell I've noticed significantly better resource utilization when torrenting in the background (only completely legal and opensource stuff btw...) And playing games, where on my hdd only build access times clog up and make everything else super slow.

The single biggest thing though is going to be loading screens like I said. Hours on skyrim, hours on Swtor, hours on da:I... The little time transactions add up so fast....

It's the idea of opportunity cost really. I tend to value my time at about 10 dollars an hour, which makes ssds absolute no brainers over the course of their life span.

I have never torrented so I wouldn't know. As for games, SSDs are good there, until you realise that to fit a decent no. of games you need a bigger SSD. And IMO anything over 250GB is too expensive ATM.

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I have never torrented so I wouldn't know. As for games, SSDs are good there, until you realise that to fit a decent no. of games you need a bigger SSD. And IMO anything over 250GB is too expensive ATM.

Even if you only put 7 games like skyrin or da:I on there you'd get massive performance savings.

Also a 1tb m500 ssd is available for 170 dollars atm so that's pretty darn good (only about 80 dollars more than a good ....greens are not good....hdd of the same capacity and more than enough storage for a crap load of games.

I mean I guess it depends on your cost benefit ratios, but for me at least it's instantely worth it to go ssd (for everything except mass picture and video storage)

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Even if you only put 7 games like skyrin or da:I on there you'd get massive performance savings.

Also a 1tb m500 ssd is available for 170 dollars atm so that's pretty darn good (only about 80 dollars more than a good ....greens are not good....hdd of the same capacity and more than enough storage for a crap load of games.

I mean I guess it depends on your cost benefit ratios, but for me at least it's instantely worth it to go ssd (for everything except mass picture and video storage)

The cheapest where I live is £220 ($342), sooo.

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still using my wd black as a boot drive, i put my pc to sleep mostly so i dont need an ssd as the speed is good enough for me

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Until prices drop more, realistically speaking common use there is barely any noticeable difference, for laptops I say the best gains is battery life and shock protection.

I'll wait before putting one in a desktop for now, I can wait the 30-45sec boot time vs 10-12. Shoot I remember the back when it took 5-8mins from my Dads 386DX to boot, So ya i'm good.

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One Sandisk Extreme 2 480 SSD in my main PC, a Crucial M400 240GB SSD in my laptop, and one 240GB Sandisk Extreme Pro in my NAS/server.

 

Once you go SSD, you never go back. I plan on getting a few more Sandisk Extremes to use as Cache for the server.

 

I had a old Plextor 240GB M2S that I gave to a friend to replace her dying laptop hard drive.

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I still don't have one. I really want one though. My friend has an ssd in his system and I love the responsiveness of everything. And my particular hard drive that i'm using is SO DAMN LOUD it drives me nuts. However i'm still on an LGA775/680i platform which only has SATA 2, so I wouldn't be getting the full benifit. I'm also just starting a new build so i'll buy one when I make progress on that.

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