It’s Time: Why You Need to Upgrade to an SSD Right Now

[Venustus]

It’s time to upgrade to an SSD if you’re still using a mechanical hard drive in your computer. An SSD is the single biggest upgrade you can give your computer, and prices have come down dramatically.

Solid-state drives are so much faster because they don’t have a spinning magnetic platter and moving head. After upgrading, you’ll be amazed at the performance improvements and wondering why you waited so long.

Why SSDs Blow Mechanical Disks Out of the Water
We used CrystalDiskMark to benchmark a recent, inexpensive solid-state drive and a 7200 RPM hard disk drive. Here are the results, with the SSD on the top and the older mechanical drive on the bottom.

The results speak for themselves. Even with sequential writes reads and writes, the SSD was more than twice as fast. When it came to one particular type of random reads and writes — reads and writes to random locations all over the disk — the SSD was more than 400 times as fast. With a mechanical hard drive, the physical heads need to move around to read data from a spinning magnetic disk. With a solid-state drive, the drive can read or write data from any location on the disk with no performance penalty.
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[Cowpipe]

If however you're concerned about privacy and anti-forensics, an SSD is a very bad idea. Most SSDs are very good at storing information as detailed in the article above, however they aren't very good at erasing it. Some SSDs however such as the latest Kingston models, do include an in-built secure erase function, so look out for that on the feature list before you buy

 

[Holysmoke]

I choose privacy over speed every day of the year

 

[ifacedown]

SSDs have much SHORTER shell life.

 

[Venustus]

All valid points!
However, if you are "gaming" an SSD is a must!
Thanks!

 

[RƎDSPYGENTLEMEN]

If you eat a lot of space , SSD isn't for you.

 

[software182]

or if you are poor, SSD is totally not for you

 

[Dima007]

All valid points!
However, if you are "gaming" an SSD is a must!
Thanks!

Totally agree bro

 

[vindiesel]

Hello friends I have a 120GB SSD for OS and HDD 1000 GB to store and install games.
If you decide to buy a SSD go to the Bios settings and change IDE to AHCI, this greatly accelerates the SSD

Optimize SSD hard drive to last longer.

Sorry buddy but only have it in Spanish, I hope to be useful.

 

[akshay1189]

So what the standard criteria to have SSD ?

 

[Nedim]

I have a Samsung EVO 250 GB. In my opinion an SSD is absolutely the best investment you can make for your PC.
I put OS and programs on the SSD and everything else (docs, pics, movies, files) on a separate HDD.

 

[HankTheCowDog]

But when the SSD goes, goodbye, no click of death, just lights out, game over. At least that's been my experience with two of them; the remaining 3 are still doing ok.

That being said, I still like the clunky old platter drives too, especially the price on smaller drives. Like others, I only run the OS/programs on the drives, so smaller platter drives are still a good option, even if you have to wait another 30 seconds to boot.

 

[Adhit Prakosho]

and prices have come down dramatically.

You are absolutely right about the SSD but for the price in Indonesia is still relatively expensive. for 120 GB Sata 3 = average above ($83,3)

I use the Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3 240GB SATA3

 

[jamescv7]

Yes SSD is a new era of technology of having fast performance not just on read/write but also when use to install for OS. Everything is effortless however the price become a problem.

My laptop came with built in 2GB SSD and it became a place of storage files as external.