After 4 years of PC gaming I finally bought an SSD

[Congress Tart]

All I can say is that I suffered through 4 years of hell for no good reason.

[nullable]

Disk performance isn't sexy, so when someone tells you it matters it may not seem like that big of a deal. It's something a lot of people have to experience for themselves.

Fortunately since most people buy prebuilts they'll get on board, it was a lot more optional ten years ago. I think a majority of people are quite a bit more aware of the benefits now.

[Zefar]

Escrito originalmente por Congress Tart:

All I can say is that I suffered through 4 years of hell for no good reason.

If you're not using it for your OS you should.
You boot up too Windows so quickly that you'll never want to go back to harddrives for the OS.

[Congress Tart]

Escrito originalmente por Zefar:

Escrito originalmente por Congress Tart:

All I can say is that I suffered through 4 years of hell for no good reason.

If you're not using it for your OS you should.
You boot up too Windows so quickly that you'll never want to go back to harddrives for the OS.

How would I transfer my OS to it without potential disaster?

[Zefar]

Escrito originalmente por Congress Tart:

Escrito originalmente por Zefar:

If you're not using it for your OS you should.
You boot up too Windows so quickly that you'll never want to go back to harddrives for the OS.

How would I transfer my OS to it without potential disaster?

For Win10 and 11 I believe it will keep all of the old files and the old windows folder will just be renamed so that will have to be deleted afterward the installation is done. Google on how to remove the old folder because it'll take up a lot of space otherwise.


Now it was like 4+ years ago since I did a full re install but I believe win10 kept my files and such when doing an upgrade. I think most of the stuff was in place but I did re install drivers for GPU.


If you plan to use a SSD for OS it might be better to just get one that is around 150 GB or 256 GB for it. It'll be easier to upgrade too.

If your current SSD is like 1-2 TB then you could keep it on it if you don't want to spend more money.
Just be sure you don't max it out. I've heard bad stuff when maxing out a ssd.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

optimal drive setup
2 2TB nvme drives in raid 0
2 1TB ssds for select games
6x 8TB NAS drives for all around storage

[Congress Tart]

Escrito originalmente por Snakub Plissken:

Disk performance isn't sexy, so when someone tells you it matters it may not seem like that big of a deal. It's something a lot of people have to experience for themselves.

Fortunately since most people buy prebuilts they'll get on board, it was a lot more optional ten years ago. I think a majority of people are quite a bit more aware of the benefits now.

My prebuilt has a HDD so I was never even aware that SSDs existed until more recently. Idk why anyone would market a PC as a ''gaming PC'' without an SSD. Modern games are a ♥♥♥♥♥ to run and load.

[Congress Tart]

Escrito originalmente por Zefar:

Escrito originalmente por Congress Tart:

How would I transfer my OS to it without potential disaster?

For Win10 and 11 I believe it will keep all of the old files and the old windows folder will just be renamed so that will have to be deleted afterward the installation is done. Google on how to remove the old folder because it'll take up a lot of space otherwise.


Now it was like 4+ years ago since I did a full re install but I believe win10 kept my files and such when doing an upgrade. I think most of the stuff was in place but I did re install drivers for GPU.


If you plan to use a SSD for OS it might be better to just get one that is around 150 GB or 256 GB for it. It'll be easier to upgrade too.

If your current SSD is like 1-2 TB then you could keep it on it if you don't want to spend more money.
Just be sure you don't max it out. I've heard bad stuff when maxing out a ssd.

Thanks. And what ''bad stuff''? I'm intrigued.

[Start_Running]

I've used both and I'll say The all have their merits. SSD's fast and quiet. DOwnside... expensive. HDD. Slower, noiser, but very backwards compatible and very cheap.

When I say cheap I mean in a $/gB sense.
COmpare any ssd of a given size and you'll find the hdd's of the same size are significantly cheaper.

End result. Would you rather a Drive that loads games faster, or a drive that can hold lots more games?

[Congress Tart]

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

I've used both and I'll say The all have their merits. SSD's fast and quiet. DOwnside... expensive. HDD. Slower, noiser, but very backwards compatible and very cheap.

When I say cheap I mean in a $/gB sense.
COmpare any ssd of a given size and you'll find the hdd's of the same size are significantly cheaper.

End result. Would you rather a Drive that loads games faster, or a drive that can hold lots more games?

Just stop being poor
But seriously, it's worth the extra money without a doubt.

[Start_Running]

Escrito originalmente por Congress Tart:

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

I've used both and I'll say The all have their merits. SSD's fast and quiet. DOwnside... expensive. HDD. Slower, noiser, but very backwards compatible and very cheap.

When I say cheap I mean in a $/gB sense.
COmpare any ssd of a given size and you'll find the hdd's of the same size are significantly cheaper.

End result. Would you rather a Drive that loads games faster, or a drive that can hold lots more games?

Just stop being poor
But seriously, it's worth the extra money without a doubt.

We don't all live in wellfare states m8. And some of us have bills to pay. DOesn't help that we get taxed both ways in my country. We pay an income tax when we get paid. AND a consumption Tax when we buy stuff.

[Congress Tart]

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

Escrito originalmente por Congress Tart:

Just stop being poor
But seriously, it's worth the extra money without a doubt.

We don't all live in wellfare states m8. And some of us have bills to pay. DOesn't help that we get taxed both ways in my country. We pay an income tax when we get paid. AND a consumption Tax when we buy stuff.

Too many presuppositions here, not worth a response.

[Mad Scientist]

Beginner ssds can easily be $20-$25, they're fairly affordable today.

Anyway, welcome to the wonderful world that is extremely fast storage.

[Congress Tart]

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Beginner ssds can easily be $20-$25, they're fairly affordable today.

Anyway, welcome to the wonderful world that is extremely fast storage.

Not so fast...
My PC has frozen twice today since I started using the SSD.

[Satoru]

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Beginner ssds can easily be $20-$25, they're fairly affordable today.

Anyway, welcome to the wonderful world that is extremely fast storage.

Microcenter was giving away 256GB drives for free.

[nullable]

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

I've used both and I'll say The all have their merits. SSD's fast and quiet. DOwnside... expensive.

They are more expensive per GB than HDD's. But ten years ago we're talking over a dollar a GB. Nowadays we're talking about ten cents per GB, or maybe less, I haven't been keeping up. Cost is relative though, as is what is considered expensive. For me seeing as I can buy a high end NVMe 2TB drive for less than what a 250GB SATA SSD cost in 2012 I don't see it as expensive.

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

HDD. Slower, noiser, but very backwards compatible and very cheap.

I'm not aware of any particular compatibility issues, unless maybe you're still running disks off PATA (IDE).

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

End result. Would you rather a Drive that loads games faster, or a drive that can hold lots more games?

Don't forget no cables or mess with m2 drives.

HDDs still have a place, but they're not nearly attractive if performance is a concern on any level.