Is an SSD worth it

[ajfis3]

I have a laptop with a 5400 rpm 1TB hard drive, the drive is glacially slow but is it worth paying for a terabyte SSD to get everything up to speed?

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

4 sho dawg

[Praesi]

I dont want miss my SSD. For OS and Games its awesome.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

I mean, yeah if you have $350 to spend. What's the specs of the rest of your laptop? Maybe the laptop itself is just shit?

[SteveGrabowski0]

Considering the price of 1TB SSDs, probably not.

[elkenrod]

If the price is an issue you can simply get a 250GB SDD for cheap and then use an external drive/usb stick for whatever you don't access daily.

[ajfis3]

The specs for the laptop:

Intel core i7 4510u

Nvidia gt840m 2GB

8GB ram

Rest of specs are on profile page

[Tesel]

I mean, yeah if you have $350 to spend. What's the specs of the rest of your laptop? Maybe the laptop itself is just shit?

More like if he has 200 to spend and a little bit of time to find a good deal.

[Nicko_barbeque]

i have an SSD in my pc and i have a 12 second boot time :-) i think its worth it but if your laptop is older that maybe not...

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

More like if he has 200 to spend and a little bit of time to find a good deal.

What really good 1TB SSD is 200$?

[Pandora]

i use a combination of a 240gig ssd for os and crap like that and an sshd for games and a slow shiet drive for everything else

[Praesi]

What really good 1TB SSD is 200$?

More like 300+

[warzkaz]

imo it's only worth it to get a 120-250 GB ssd if you have hhd for example if you have a desktop

for laptops it's better to get sshd

[ajfis3]

i have an SSD in my pc and i have a 12 second boot time :-) i think its worth it but if your laptop is older that maybe not...

The laptop is only a few months old cost me heaps and I'm getting disappointed with the boot up times and the game loading screens

[ajfis3]

Also if its possible post a link for these cheap drives!

[SteveGrabowski0]

If the price is an issue you can simply get a 250GB SDD for cheap and then use an external drive/usb stick for whatever you don't access daily.

 

I have to second this. 250 GB is pretty large for a non-gaming system and then you can use a 2TB external for holding movies, tv shows, and other stuff you're not planning on using that day.

[SteveGrabowski0]

The laptop is only a few months old cost me heaps and I'm getting disappointed with the boot up times and the game loading screens

 

What games are you trying to play? The loading times aren't just about trying to read off the disk. It's also about initializing everything in the game world, which is dependent on the speed and number of threads in your cpu.

[IanDrexP]

I have a laptop with a 5400 rpm 1TB hard drive, the drive is glacially slow but is it worth paying for a terabyte SSD to get everything up to speed?

 

I have to second this. 250 GB is pretty large for a non-gaming system and then you can use a 2TB external for holding movies, tv shows, and other stuff you're not planning on using that day.

I third this because buying a 1 TB SSD and not filling it up immediately and most likely not all data from it will be used often will be a waste of money especially since SSDs are dropping in price as time goes by and also new technologies are arising.

[ajfis3]

I don't play many intense games the only one that I can think of which might push the computer is TITANFALL otherwise I play small games like csgo

[ajfis3]

I don't play many intense games the only one that I can think of which might push the computer is TITANFALL otherwise I play small games like csgo

[AMDisTheBEST]

It is worth every penny. You are not likely to be able to afford 1 tb tho. I suggest 240gb to install your windows on and another 1 tb for files,musics,movies,games

[dizmo]

imo it's only worth it to get a 120-250 GB ssd if you have hhd for example if you have a desktop

for laptops it's better to get sshd

^This.

If your laptop doesn't have expansion to get an m.2 drive, just get a WD Black2. 120GB SSD with a 1TB HDD in a 2.5" drive.

 

Worth is a relative term. If it's worth it to you, it's worth it to you. There really isn't anything that everyone will agree on. If it was me, I'd buy the 1TB SSD.

 

I have to second this. 250 GB is pretty large for a non-gaming system and then you can use a 2TB external for holding movies, tv shows, and other stuff you're not planning on using that day.

That's exactly how my rig is set up. Works perfectly.

[ajfis3]

If I have my games on an external drive how will that impact the loading times for it?

[SteveGrabowski0]

If I have my games on an external drive how will that impact the loading times for it?

 

I wouldn't install games to an external drive, USB will probably be slow as hell. I forgot most internet access has data caps in AUS, so I guess just downloading from Steam every time you want to reinstall a game isn't a great option. You might be better off buying a 500 GB drive then if you have lots of games to install, though 250 GB would be great if it was just Titanfall and then a few other small games like CS:GO or LOL.

[SteveGrabowski0]

But 1TB? That's extremely hard to fill up with games while extremely easy to fill up with media, so using a single 1TB SSD for both doesn't sound like a great idea to me.