mantissteam
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Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
its good enough for now I will maybe buy an SSD for games in the future
its good enough for now I will maybe buy an SSD for games in the future
How much SSD space is in your main system?
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Axle Grease
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Wow... Eight years. I got questions. What's your mobo, and wouldn't it have only a SATA II interface?
Axle Grease
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2TB. One 1TB SSD for OS and games. The other is for recording 2560x1440 60fps gameplay using shadowplay.
Asus P6T Deluxe v2
I've modified the bios to give the SSD's TRIM support, yes SATA II aswell.
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Jibberish18
256 GB Samsung 750 EVO. I wish I would've gotten double the capacity but I was on a budget. Besides I purchased a 1TB Mechanical Drive as my backup so I'm not using a ton of space on the SSD.
captaincranky
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Well, at the risk of incurring scorn and committing blasphemy, I don't have any SSD in my primary rig. When this Windows 10 mierda golpeado al ventilador, instead of building a new Skylake rig, I decided to turn my Ivy Bridge i3 machine, into a "real computer". (Or reasonable facsimile thereof, anyway). So, I bought a GTX-750ti and a 250GB Samsung "Evo", and began the project.
The 750 replaced the IGP, and obviously, the SSD was to be used for "C:/".
Well, with the SSD, the system, (predictably), booted and launched programs in a heartbeat. However, when the system hit the 2-2GB storage drives, the machine ran about the same as it ever did. I just said "screw it", and put the 600GB WD "Velociraptor" back in.
Well, the V-Rap is pretty speedy, and I'm an old Luddite retiree. The boot time is quite decent, as I always prune the startup programs back to the bare minimum. Since "C:/" is only half of the V-Rap, I use the extra 300GB partitioned for temporary storage. We're still trying to figure out just what to do with the Samsung..
If you want to count the machine I use to, "Win Friends and Gain Confidences" (here), as my "primary", it has a 120GB Sandisk installed as the system drive. (That drive cost me thirty five bucks, Black Friday last). Although, given we're dealing with a G-41 chipset, which is probably set to run the drives as "IDE", I'm not entirely sure how much of an advantage I'm getting from an SSD.
The 750 replaced the IGP, and obviously, the SSD was to be used for "C:/".
Well, with the SSD, the system, (predictably), booted and launched programs in a heartbeat. However, when the system hit the 2-2GB storage drives, the machine ran about the same as it ever did. I just said "screw it", and put the 600GB WD "Velociraptor" back in.
Well, the V-Rap is pretty speedy, and I'm an old Luddite retiree. The boot time is quite decent, as I always prune the startup programs back to the bare minimum. Since "C:/" is only half of the V-Rap, I use the extra 300GB partitioned for temporary storage. We're still trying to figure out just what to do with the Samsung..
If you want to count the machine I use to, "Win Friends and Gain Confidences" (here), as my "primary", it has a 120GB Sandisk installed as the system drive. (That drive cost me thirty five bucks, Black Friday last). Although, given we're dealing with a G-41 chipset, which is probably set to run the drives as "IDE", I'm not entirely sure how much of an advantage I'm getting from an SSD.
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ypsylon
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2x400GB i750
1x500 GB 950Pro
1x120 GB 850 EVO (caching device)
2x1TB MX200
4x960GB Mushkin Strikers
4x1TB 850 EVOs
2x2TB 850 EVOs
Most of that stuff is connected into drive-pool - as of last month my main rig is HDD-free and it shows during boot. Using RAID card in HBA mode+SAS expander. More SSDs ahead. Waiting for 1TB 960Pros to replace one i750 and one 950 Pro because recording stuff eats a lot, much more than I've expected at first. LOL
1x500 GB 950Pro
1x120 GB 850 EVO (caching device)
2x1TB MX200
4x960GB Mushkin Strikers
4x1TB 850 EVOs
2x2TB 850 EVOs
Most of that stuff is connected into drive-pool - as of last month my main rig is HDD-free and it shows during boot. Using RAID card in HBA mode+SAS expander. More SSDs ahead.
Waiting for 1TB 960Pros to replace one i750 and one 950 Pro because recording stuff eats a lot, much more than I've expected at first. LOLYes, 850 Pro is much faster. I have them both and my OS is now on 850 and the Vertex 3 is for most used programs files and browser caches etc (because it is still way faster than my spinning storage).
128GB Samsung 840 Pro in the desktop (main) PC.
I plan to buy a 1TB SSD for my laptop soon; top candidates are Samsung 850 Evo and Crucial MX300 (just mentioned this in another thread here at TS). Like with some of the PCs listed above, the laptop is only SATA 2, but that really only impairs the sequential sustained reads/writes, and that's a fairly small proportion of what people usually do with their PCs.
I tested the laptop's TRIM ability with the TRIM tester and a Sandisk Ultra II 120GB SSD, and it is passing the trim to the SSD, even though it's as old as it is (Vista era) with unmodded BIOS (at least as far as the storage option ROM goes; I've changed other stuff).
I plan to buy a 1TB SSD for my laptop soon; top candidates are Samsung 850 Evo and Crucial MX300 (just mentioned this in another thread here at TS). Like with some of the PCs listed above, the laptop is only SATA 2, but that really only impairs the sequential sustained reads/writes, and that's a fairly small proportion of what people usually do with their PCs.
I tested the laptop's TRIM ability with the TRIM tester and a Sandisk Ultra II 120GB SSD, and it is passing the trim to the SSD, even though it's as old as it is (Vista era) with unmodded BIOS (at least as far as the storage option ROM goes; I've changed other stuff).
Darth Shiv
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Same. With the 250 tho I used junction points to move steam apps to a hdd. With fast internet that's not a problem tho!
SirChocula
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What program do you use to make full disk images with? I'm thinking about buying a new ssd and don't want to reinstall windows and all my programs all over T_T
captaincranky
Posts: 19,682 +8,822
If you buy one of the new Samsung drives, they come with excellent software. They may even have a newer version on their website. (At least they did have an update when I bought my drive) Their "Evo" models are priced very competitively.
First you move as many plain data files off of "C:/" as you can. (photos , videos, and the like), After that, you should be done with the whole procedure within an hour. Easy to follow instructions are included with the software.
This is the slightly more expensive 250GB "Evo" model with "3D memory", which is supposed to extend the life of the drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...7372&cm_re=Samsung_SSD-_-20-147-372-_-Product
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500gb 850 evo. I have two other 128gb drives sitting idle, don't really know what to do with them, I have an unreasonable amount of HDDs in my pc as it is.
I used macrium reflect when I was moving over. Seemed to do the job fine.
I used macrium reflect when I was moving over. Seemed to do the job fine.
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