sammynb 2929 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Is anyone using a SSD (solid state drive) as their OS drive? Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikko 20 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My Laptop has one, works a treat. Makes it really quiet as there is less cooling and no moving parts involved. Not really worth it for anything that isn't portable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 9944 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I've got one for my OS drive, Win 7 boots and is up and running in about 15 secs max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4183 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Aye my machine at work has a Ssd it's the business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikko 20 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 How so? the gains for the desktop are the same for the laptop, it's not so much the sound/noise i'd be worried about more the fact in most applications of the drive the ssd will be 10x better performance wise vs a sataII/I equivalent. Basically the only thing a standard drive has over a ssd is price/capacity in which it wins hands down, anything to do with performance the ssd will basically slap it around. I only went for it on the laptop for the power and noise. I don't really notice any difference between my laptop and desktop on boot times or performance but the desktop is a lot more powerful as the laptop is fairly old now so it may just be down to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 they're great for that, there is no arguments against the performance of them, it's the fact people like space and when they see a 128gb ssd costs considerably more than a 2tb+ drive they opt for the later. basically SSD work well, but are small and stupidly expensive so you need to be happy enough just using it for windows/installed apps/games rather than lobbing all your downloads on it That was my thoughts. I've ordered a 360GB SSD, which cost around 200 quid, with a combination of 1 and 2TB sata III drives for storage/media. I can buy 2TB sata III drives for $125AUS atm and they are getting cheaper by the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruler of Planet Houston 1 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I use a 128gb ssd to run OS, apps and shit. I symlinked my documents, downloads, music folders etc... to my hdd. The difference seemed none existent at first until I went back to the moving drive for a couple of weeks after sending the faulty ssd back to be replaced. It was a feeling like going from broadband back to dial up. There isn't really any need to have a 2tb ssd as you just wouldn't notice the speed difference in opening documents. That said...If you are in to gaming or using softsynths for music production it would be nice to have it all on the ssd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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