Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

[River]

Is it worth doing?

I feel like I am missing out by not.

Just tried SSD to SSD and even SSD or portable SSD.

The speed is incredible compared to Hard Drive 7200 rpm to SSD.



Only normal hard drives 7200 rpm I have right now are my 2 data drives. One 4 TB SATA 7200 rpm for primary data and the other portable 4 TB Hard Drive for backup of it.

Everything else is a NVMe SSD.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Did it years ago.

Only HDDs I've been using are all in my NAS; 4x 12TB

If you "need" like 8TB or more in a single drive in a PC, you might have a mental problem of some sort.

2TB and 4TB SSDs are cheap enough nowa days when on-sale. Couple of those in each PC and you should be good to go.

If you don't want or like NAS, you can always go buy an external SSD or HDD and use that when need to back up something or overload some stuff off your SSDs.

You shouldn't need 20-30+ TB worth of stuff on a single PC via internal storage.

Black Friday / Cyber Week would have been the best time to scoop up 4 TB SSDs.

2 of my PCs have an 8TB SSD. Only because I was able to get those at a decent discount. Otherwise there just is no way...

[River]

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

Did it years ago.

Only HDDs I've been using are all in my NAS; 4x 12TB

If you "need" like 8TB or more in a single drive in a PC, you might have a mental problem of some sort.

2TB and 4TB SSDs are cheap enough nowa days when on-sale. Couple of those in each PC and you should be good to go.

If you don't want or like NAS, you can always go buy an external SSD or HDD and use that when need to back up something or overload some stuff off your SSDs.

You shouldn't need 20-30+ TB worth of stuff on a single PC via internal storage.

Black Friday / Cyber Week would have been the best time to scoop up 4 TB SSDs.

2 of my PCs have an 8TB SSD. Only because I was able to get those at a decent discount. Otherwise there just is no way...

Thanks.



Right now I have one 1 TB NVMe SSD for my OS and applications. Two 2 TB NVMe SSDs for my games (that is all they had at the time sadly) Plus one more 1 TB NVMe SSD for VMs

Should I upgrade the two 2 TB NVMe SSDs and the one 1 TB NVMe SSD to all 4 TB Samsung 990 Pro SSDs with heatsink ? So 3 new SSDs.

That way I can use one of the 4 TB SSDs for my data instead and be strictly all ssds now instead of any spinning drives or is that a bad idea ?

[r.linder]

Very few reasons to be using mechanical disk drives these days for the average consumer.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Even back around 2017/2018 or so, many of my customers builds I was doing, had this for the storage... obviously optional, but many were asking for it.

1x 500GB SSD for OS + Apps
1x 2TB SSD for Games / Video Recording
1x 8TB WD Gold 7200rpm SATA HDD

[River]

Ok thanks.

Guessing 12 TB of NVMe of storage is way too much.

Even if it is not all for just game installs.

[r.linder]

How much storage is necessary depends on the end user, some are fine with 1TB total while others need a lot more than that.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

r.linder eredeti hozzászólása:

Very few reasons to be using mechanical disk drives these days for the average consumer.

Yea I mean it's quite standard to be using SSD for OS + Apps. Then another for Games. The only reason to have a HDD at all is for loose file storage. It's too slow to bother putting games on it. Even the industries fastest consumer HDD are way too slow to use for a Games Drive. But again you could have that HDD as a secondary Steam Library and if want to, put older games there; such as smaller and/or less demanding indie games; ones that don't benefit from the faster read speed.

Many games today (the more demanding ones; basically anything 3D where you fly, drive or walk around in) simply won't even run correctly and smoothly if you put them on a HDD.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

gamer eredeti hozzászólása:

Ok thanks.

Guessing 12 TB of NVMe of storage is way too much.

Even if it is not all for just game installs.

Hey if you can afford it and you have a need for it; who's to say otherwise.

I was just making a general suggestion as with SSDs I don't really see any need to have multiple very large capacity HDDs in a single system. You can always turn those into externals if need be as well.

Upgrading your older SSDs such as smaller ones you don't really need anymore of around 1TB or smaller, maybe transition these over to another device, such as a Laptop or turn into external storage for a laptop, phone or tablet. Phones and Tablets can use USB external storage if you enable the USB Debugging on the device; like what is available on Android 9 and later.

[r.linder]

You can also allocate your fastest USB ports for external M.2 SSDs inside of an enclosure that connects via those USB ports, wouldn't be as fast as running from PCI-e bandwidth so you wouldn't want to use a really fast drive but for cheap NVMe or SATA drives, it's fine for lighter games and as fast as USB external storage is going to get

[Bad 💀 Motha]

r.linder eredeti hozzászólása:

You can also allocate your fastest USB ports for external M.2 SSDs inside of an enclosure that connects via those USB ports, wouldn't be as fast as running from PCI-e bandwidth so you wouldn't want to use a really fast drive but for cheap NVMe or SATA drives, it's fine for lighter games and as fast as USB external storage is going to get

That's another thing; if you upgrade to a modern Motherboard such as ones that support PCIE 5.0 and 4.0 NVME SSDs. If you have any older and/or smaller NVME SSDs such as PCIE 3.0 ones; you can find other uses for them, or wipe them and sell them. To make room for using newer, faster SSDs; not just larger sized ones.

[r.linder]

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

r.linder eredeti hozzászólása:

You can also allocate your fastest USB ports for external M.2 SSDs inside of an enclosure that connects via those USB ports, wouldn't be as fast as running from PCI-e bandwidth so you wouldn't want to use a really fast drive but for cheap NVMe or SATA drives, it's fine for lighter games and as fast as USB external storage is going to get

That's another thing; if you upgrade to a modern Motherboard such as ones that support PCIE 5.0 and 4.0 NVME SSDs. If you have any older and/or smaller NVME SSDs such as PCIE 3.0 ones; you can find other uses for them, or wipe them and sell them. To make room for using newer, faster SSDs; not just larger sized ones.

Yeah I usually just put my older SSDs into enclosures and use them as external drives, or use them for other systems that could use one

[sebo]

I haven't had a traditional HDD in my system since 2019. that is about the time i transitioned to SSD only and haven't looked back. HDDs are obsolete in my eyes except for long term storage.

Prices have been pretty affordable. Even worth considering going from SSD to NVMe SSDs. I recently posted a thread on this here. over the holidays, i bought a couple 4TB WB Black NVMe for $230. insanely fast and definitely worth it.. prices seem to be pretty good and trending down into the future.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Obsolete for using as an OS or Games drive; but HDDs still have uses.

But I suppose people who don't spend all day creating content, new files, downloading files they need to keep, downloading videos such as shows or movies and keeping them.... yea this is where you may need a HDD and where having like 8-12+ TB will come in handy.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

sebo eredeti hozzászólása:

I haven't had a traditional HDD in my system since 2019. that is about the time i transitioned to SSD only and haven't looked back. HDDs are obsolete in my eyes except for long term storage.

Prices have been pretty affordable. Even worth considering going from SSD to NVMe SSDs. I recently posted a thread on this here. over the holidays, i bought a couple 4TB WB Black NVMe for $230. insanely fast and definitely worth it.. prices seem to be pretty good and trending down into the future.

$230 is NOT affordable when you can get a 7200RPM, 12TB HDD for $80.

At will employment...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Time is money. I can't sit around and wait hours to transfer GB or TB. Which is exactly what will happen when you use HDDs.