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Time to upgrade SSD?

whatareyoud0
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Hi guys,

So currently I have an Intel 330 series 120gb SSD as my boot drive, and I was just wondering if it would be beneficial to make an upgrade to a newer SSD such as the Samsung EVO's.. If I'll need to upgrade, though, when should I do it? Kinda eyeing the Samsung 850 EVO SSD.. Currently, a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD costs around $100 from where I'm from (Philippines).

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no, don't upgrade you're perfectly fine unless you need more storage for which you should have a hard drive

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Unless your current drive's weak at the knees, I wouldn't bother.

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It would be a good upgrade, if you want more space - with the added bonus of higher capacity drives being faster. 

If you don't need more space, then it's not worth it...that's $100 that could go into a better graphics card, towards a better monitor, better audio, etc....

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Get a second one and run it in raid if you want to.

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