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SSD Fresh, anyone heard of this?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 918974" data-attributes="member: 83059"><p>I would really say that of the SSDs you can buy, the Intel, Samsung, and HP Enterprise ones are the ones you should prefer for your system drive. Other ones can still be great for bulk storage or easily replaceable content like games, but I don't recommend taking any chances with your system drive. Software updates and your My Documents / browser cache and so on represent really challenging and specific disk IO workloads -- aligned, unaligned, lots of small overwrites, etc etc etc. And you don't immediately notice subtle incorrectness or corruption until it's so late that it's going to be a pain to recover even if you take regular backups.</p><p></p><p>These tend to be more expensive so I think it's perfectly sensible to get like a 256GB or 512GB system drive and then a much larger separate drive for storing games and other content you can easily replace from the Internet.</p><p></p><p>And reliability aside, there's a lot of strange performance issues that lower end / low cost SSDs have when dealing with some of these workloads that can lead to visible performance loss or even hangs/hiccups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 918974, member: 83059"] I would really say that of the SSDs you can buy, the Intel, Samsung, and HP Enterprise ones are the ones you should prefer for your system drive. Other ones can still be great for bulk storage or easily replaceable content like games, but I don't recommend taking any chances with your system drive. Software updates and your My Documents / browser cache and so on represent really challenging and specific disk IO workloads -- aligned, unaligned, lots of small overwrites, etc etc etc. And you don't immediately notice subtle incorrectness or corruption until it's so late that it's going to be a pain to recover even if you take regular backups. These tend to be more expensive so I think it's perfectly sensible to get like a 256GB or 512GB system drive and then a much larger separate drive for storing games and other content you can easily replace from the Internet. And reliability aside, there's a lot of strange performance issues that lower end / low cost SSDs have when dealing with some of these workloads that can lead to visible performance loss or even hangs/hiccups. [/QUOTE]
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