SSD Time

**Bunni** · 12-18-13, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by enf

Ended up going with Amazon.com: Samsung Electronics 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch 256 GB SATA 6GB/s Solid State Drive MZ-7PD256BW: Computers & Accessories

Thanks for the info all.

Let me know how it is? I've got a hdd circling the drain, contains my c partition. Should prove the opportunity to switch to see, leme know how that drive works out?

Are you going to do a fresh install or copy over?

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**enf** · 12-18-13, 07:41 AM

Fresh install. I bought a new copy of Win8.1 with it.

**WileECyte** · 12-18-13, 09:23 AM

With Windows, you always want to do a fresh install when going from a traditional HD to SSD because the OS does certain things at install time to enable certain features of the OS specific to SSDs. Windows 8, especially behaves differently on a SSD than a standard HD.

**Kanati** · 12-18-13, 09:32 AM

yeah it acts a little sassier... has a bit of a jersey shore accent now.

**enf** · 12-18-13, 09:39 AM

Not to mention a fresh install just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside...

**deputyfestus** · 12-18-13, 11:28 AM

Just in case...

I don't have win 8 so not sure if this will still be the same.

**Rumble** · 12-18-13, 03:31 PM

When I had a 250gb ssd inwas able to put my OS, office and my steam games on and still not fill it. I didn't have all my steam games installed but I only play 2 or 3 at a time anyways. Now I have the 1tb Evo and it isbawesome

**HeavyG** · 12-18-13, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by ElFuriosoGato

Ever since I got my 840 Pro, my teamkills have dropped 10%!

Uh... I don't think that has anything to do with the SSD. Not sure if you were joking or not, but [H]ard|OCP had a great article where they tested actual frame rate performance between an SSD and an HDD. End result? No difference in frame rate/performance, big difference in load times.

HARDOCP - Introduction - HDD vs. SSD Real World Gaming Performance

The ONLY benefit you get from gaming on an SSD is decreased load times. If anyone says there is a difference, they are blowing smoke.

**salty99** · 12-19-13, 03:10 AM

I've got 3 Intel 120GB 520 series SSDs and a 240GB crucial x500 SSD.

I've run them in a number of configurations since I've bought them. While Intel sits at the top as far as price is concerned, the 5 year warranty they come with is worth the bump in price. I've yet to have any failures on any of my drives - and while Intel was top dog for a while when the SSD market was just starting to pick up, Crucial and Samsung have matched their quality in certain product lines and are just as good if not better, though Intel still makes some awesome drives.

I ran one 120GB Intel 520 in a macbook pro for 6 months at the start of 2013 and it worked great. I had a dual boot snow leopard/win 7 pro on it and save for the lack of space, it worked flawlessly.

I did a striped RAID in my desktop for a while to use both my other 2 120GB 520s as a single drive. It worked and never failed - though RAID SSDs are highly prone to erratic behavior. I would sometimes get stalled on startup and shutdown (occasionally even up to a couple minutes) as well as one desynchronization error I got a few months back.

I recently got my crucial x500 and replaced my RAID with that and I've yet to encounter a single stall or error that I encountered while using the RAID.

On a slightly unrelated note:

One of my professors was a design engineer at Micron for many years and structured many of her courses towards DRAM, VLSI, and semiconductor memories - making us one of the schools Micron recruits from. I actually recently had an interview with them and straight up got my butt handed to me. The recruiter was very nice and a great rep - by that was easily the most technically difficult interview I've ever had. At least I got some free 16 and 64GB micron flash drives out of it though. They usually bring some SSDs and give them out at the career fair but this semester they didn't bring any.

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**salty99** · 12-19-13, 03:12 AM

Also, didn't Sandforce recently have a huge fire on their fabrication floor in their main facility? Might have been a different company, but I know it was one of the big fabrication companies

Edit: oh snap it was SK Hynix - this could seriously put a stall on Samsung's presence in the SD market. While they have the financial backing to get things up and running again, it will take time and I'm sure Crucial will enjoy some room temporarily as Micron pushes forward.

http://www.myce.com/news/massive-fir...-prices-68641/

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