SSD vs SATA Hard Drive OS install

**WileECyte** · 10-10-12, 10:37 AM

Excellent review of the 830 series:
Samsung 830 Capacity Range Roundup - Samsung Takes a Serious Turn on Performance | PC Perspective

The new 840 Pro series is also very fast:

Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD Full Review - Samsung Ups the Ante | PC Perspective

The 840 series though is cost prohibitive as they are brand new.

**gehn** · 10-10-12, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

It lacks in the random read department, but it's not bad at that price point.

Because random read is what we should be concerned about for its purposes....

I have a 180GB SSD and a 2TB HD plus a 2TB external.

SSD for OS+all Apps+Origin
2TB Internal for Steam+All other games + videos
2TB External for videos and music and long-term storage. Couple SVN repositories

**Gunny** · 10-10-12, 01:16 PM

I decided to go with this one. I got it and the adapter from amazon for 235.00. With delivery tomorrow.
OCZ VTX4-25SAT3-256G Vertex 4 256GB Solid State Drive - 256GB, SATA III 6Gbp/s, Up to 120,000 Maximum IOPS, 2.5 at TigerDirect.com
I also was having some issues with my motherboard so i decided to buy this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131736
I bought it at fry's.

The ssd has a 5 year warranty and was the fastest random read and write.

Some of you know I have 3 systems I play on, home system, laptop and a work system. The home system has been giving me issues for the past 4 months and I was leaning towards a motherboard/hard drive issue. My work system already has the sabertooth motherboard and same cpu, amd black edition 965, so now I will be playing on very similar systems between home and work. I will just need to upgrade the work to an ssd in the near future.

I hope to get my home system rebuilt Friday while at work.

As far as storage at home I already have a server with 3tb of space for my movies, pictures and music so this system is just gaming and every day use like email, surfing the net and the occasional word/excel document.

Thanks for the help.

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**SovietDooM** · 10-10-12, 04:08 PM

Be sure and get an adapter tray, I was fucking pissed when I didn't get one with my Agility but it came with the vertex

**MaFioSo** · 10-10-12, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Be sure and get an adapter tray

+1

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**Gunny** · 10-10-12, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Be sure and get an adapter tray, I was fucking pissed when I didn't get one with my Agility but it came with the vertex

Yeah I ordered one with it, I was at Fry's looking at what they had but the max Gb they had was 1-240GB. They also had the adapters but they were 12 bucks, the one I ordered with my SSD was only 4 bucks plus 3 bucks shipping.

They should be here tomorrow.

I am excited and cant wait to get my system rebuilt.

If all goes well with this SSD I may go ahead and buy another for my work system because I know once I start gaming on the home system, the work system is going to drive me crazy with slow load times.

**SovietDooM** · 10-10-12, 08:27 PM

I do like the 40 second cold start to desktop.

**HeavyG** · 10-13-12, 07:19 AM

I have my OS, some other apps, and BF3 on the SSD. Everything else is on my other drives, including Steam.

**Gunny** · 10-13-12, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by HeavyG

I have my OS, some other apps, and BF3 on the SSD. Everything else is on my other drives, including Steam.

Yeah that is what I am doing. I played last night and love the setup. The boot up is awesome and the game load time is +/- 20 seconds.

Money well spent.

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