IT/Computer brehs: Is a solid state hard drive really as good as they say?

[ThatTruth777]

I remember when I was modding Skyrim, it was recommended because it was supposedly faster and less likely to crash among all kind of other shyt.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

SSD's lifespans are shorter and you're paying more for less space

when it comes down to storage space for ur buck/lifespan V.S a couple seconds of faster loading I'd rather have the former

No daps.

 

[Take It In Blood]

No daps.

is this not accurate?

if not then school a breh

 

[The Guru]

Low end ssd in 2018 550 mb read speed, 500 write. Low end HD 90 mb read 60 write.

 

[Lord_nikon]

No sound at ALL

 

[Remo]

Just now considering SSDs in 2018

 

[cheek100]

Bought one a year ago for my music/dj only. Shyt made a world of difference.
They get u with the storage but that’s an easy fix with ext.

 

[perfectblack999]

Did you have to use a newer SATA connector on your 2011 MBP to connect the SSD?

No, but I did have to replace my old one because it was faulty.

 

[intruder]

 

[Neuromancer]

Yes completely.

 

[Gold]

SSD's lifespans are shorter

False.

Mechanical drives failure rate will have them giving you issues long before you use up all the writes of an SSD.
Its not even comparable.

SSDs main selling point over mechanical (other than read-write speeds) is the elimination of mechanical failure.

Many modern ssds have a TBW (total bytes written) range of 300TB-1000TB, and i'm talking about consumer level, not even enterprise.
The average user would need about a millennia to write 1000TB of data, Even a power user would need at least a century.

If you exceed these ratings and are constantly writing and deleting terabytes of data to your SSD daily, you should get slow storage instead (because its going to fail anyway, might as well fail on a cheaper drive)

 

[NinoBrown]

As an IT pro, yes, it has extended our legacy systems another 3-4 years.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

It lives up to the hype but the price to storage ratio is still :dayum:

This is why you put your OS + programs on the SSD and your downloaded music/movies on the mechanicals

I think the SSD in my laptop is like 120GB.... but the Synology NAS has 12 GB And I'm pretty sure I can log into it remotely

 

[Afrodroid]

Ok so explain this

So if you swap a SSD drive with your mechanical drive and put it into your laptop, would they have a Windows operating system pre-installed on it, or you would have to install it yourself?

You might use some clone software to create a image of your entire system and programs installed on the previous hdd, and then move them on to the new drive. No reinstall needed.

If your laptop has only one hdd bay you may need an external drive/bay to do that.

 

[Arithmetic]

Depending on the size you purchase put the OS, games, IDEs, and Adobe on the SSD and everything else on a 7200 RPM HDD. If copping a large SSD don't worry about the HDD