Storage Solutions SSD - is it worth it??
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Really depends if you are a patient person or not. It ONLY improves load times for games, and boot and load times of windows and programs.
No just ONLY, those are a few among other improvements.
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Really depends if you are a patient person or not. It ONLY improves load times for games, and boot and load times of windows and programs.
Only load time ?
Any FPS improvement in gaming ?
^^Sure, why not?
The storage subsystem is not a static being in a running computer. Once you think about what hits the disk during operation and couple that with the fact that mechanical hard drives are probably the last remaining bottleneck in a PC, it will be clear what is affected and what is not. Every operation you do on a PC finds its way on to your hard disk.
If the disk was required only during loading and booting, you would never see the hard disk light. If you construct two identical systems with a mechanical drive and a SSD, and run a reasonably rounded workload (not CPU benchmarks, form example, but a real-world application suite), the SSD will almost always win.
Of course, SSDs have their own issues and are relatively expensive (given that it is not wise to fill them beyond 70% capacity). Then there is the issue of keeping them in good health. The advantages though are too significant for them to be ignored. An Athlon II with an SSD and 2GB memory feels much quicker than an i7 with 8GB memory and a WD Blue hard drive. I know, I've used both simultaneously.
FPS in gaming though, is a bit of a stretch. Unless you are running a system with a very small framebuffer and need to load intra-level information from the hard drive, a storage upgrade will get you no benefit. Daily use and applications benefit the most, because they write very small packets to the drive during operation and mechanical hard drives have a terrible time dealing with it.
The storage subsystem is not a static being in a running computer. Once you think about what hits the disk during operation and couple that with the fact that mechanical hard drives are probably the last remaining bottleneck in a PC, it will be clear what is affected and what is not. Every operation you do on a PC finds its way on to your hard disk.
If the disk was required only during loading and booting, you would never see the hard disk light. If you construct two identical systems with a mechanical drive and a SSD, and run a reasonably rounded workload (not CPU benchmarks, form example, but a real-world application suite), the SSD will almost always win.
Of course, SSDs have their own issues and are relatively expensive (given that it is not wise to fill them beyond 70% capacity). Then there is the issue of keeping them in good health. The advantages though are too significant for them to be ignored. An Athlon II with an SSD and 2GB memory feels much quicker than an i7 with 8GB memory and a WD Blue hard drive. I know, I've used both simultaneously.
FPS in gaming though, is a bit of a stretch. Unless you are running a system with a very small framebuffer and need to load intra-level information from the hard drive, a storage upgrade will get you no benefit. Daily use and applications benefit the most, because they write very small packets to the drive during operation and mechanical hard drives have a terrible time dealing with it.
Here is a nice comparison -
Hard disk drives vs. solid-state drives: Are SSDs finally worth the money? - Computerworld
Hard disk drives vs. solid-state drives: Are SSDs finally worth the money? - Computerworld