It's safe, but the best way to use an SSD is just put the OS on a 64GB drive (Crucial M4s are good), and then use a slave drive that is an HDD for everything else.
SSDs have a much longer lifespan than HDDs. However, some brands, namely OCZ, have great products on paper that unfortunately fail unusually quickly. I've heard about 15% of OCZ SSDs fail well before the expected lifespan is up. Though no SSD has actually reached the point where its expected lifespan is up, as they were invented ~2009. That's how long they are supposed to last.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are very expensive and only go up to about 64 GB if I am correct. You can store an OS on that, but you should stick with Disk Drives (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc...) until the technology advances and the price goes down.Solid State Drives (SSD) are very expensive and only go up to about 64 GB if I am correct. You can store an OS on that, but you should stick with Disk Drives (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc...) until the technology advances and the price goes down.
SSDs have a much longer lifespan than HDDs. However, some brands, namely OCZ, have great products on paper that unfortunately fail unusually quickly. I've heard about 15% of OCZ SSDs fail well before the expected lifespan is up. Though no SSD has actually reached the point where its expected lifespan is up, as they were invented ~2009. That's how long they are supposed to last.
It's safe, but the best way to use an SSD is just put the OS on a 64GB drive (Crucial M4s are good), and then use a slave drive that is an HDD for everything else.
That works well, just make sure to save files to the right drive(I failed at that on my old PC)
As long as you buy a reliable SSD, it shouldn't come unstable. Do a Google search of reliable SSDs and pick whichever one best fits your price range and capacity needs.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are very expensive and only go up to about 64 GB if I am correct. You can store an OS on that, but you should stick with Disk Drives (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc...) until the technology advances and the price goes down.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are very expensive and only go up to about 64 GB if I am correct. You can store an OS on that, but you should stick with Disk Drives (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc...) until the technology advances and the price goes down.
They go way past 64GB, they recently released ones that are 1TB if I'm not mistaken.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are very expensive and only go up to about 64 GB if I am correct. You can store an OS on that, but you should stick with Disk Drives (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc...) until the technology advances and the price goes down.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are very expensive and only go up to about 64 GB if I am correct. You can store an OS on that, but you should stick with Disk Drives (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc...) until the technology advances and the price goes down.
SSDs actually come up to 1TB, although they're VERY expensive. Also, almost every hard drive these days is SATA II/III (SATA III HDDs are pointless though), so there's no worry for that.
SSDs have a much longer lifespan than HDDs. However, some brands, namely OCZ, have great products on paper that unfortunately fail unusually quickly. I've heard about 15% of OCZ SSDs fail well before the expected lifespan is up. Though no SSD has actually reached the point where its expected lifespan is up, as they were invented ~2009. That's how long they are supposed to last.
This is true and I can testify. My dad's 120GB Vertex lasted a year and a half then it quit. RMA'd. Replacement one failed in TWO DAYS. Third one now works ok (so far).
My netbook also has a Vertex II which hasn't had any issues yet, but I barely use the netbook.
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SSDs have a much longer lifespan than HDDs. However, some brands, namely OCZ, have great products on paper that unfortunately fail unusually quickly. I've heard about 15% of OCZ SSDs fail well before the expected lifespan is up. Though no SSD has actually reached the point where its expected lifespan is up, as they were invented ~2009. That's how long they are supposed to last.
IIRC SSDs only last 5 years right now due to a hardware limitation that gives them a maximum write limit at which point it becomes read-only. (NAND flash memory)
For this you need to properly configure your OS to save updates to a HDD and other user files on a HDD and use a HDD for most games/high write programs or it will hit this limit in less than 5 years.
IIRC SSDs only last 5 years right now due to a hardware limitation that gives them a maximum write limit at which point it becomes read-only. (NAND flash memory)
For this you need to properly configure your OS to save updates to a HDD and other user files on a HDD and use a HDD for most games/high write programs or it will hit this limit in less than 5 years.
That was what I was afraid of.
I'll probably look back into SSDs when prices drop and lifetime increases.
Thinking about coming a mod to simply not moderate.
Their firmware is absolute crap.
Thinking about coming a mod to simply not moderate.
That works well, just make sure to save files to the right drive(I failed at that on my old PC)
They go way past 64GB, they recently released ones that are 1TB if I'm not mistaken.
Thinking about coming a mod to simply not moderate.
SSDs actually come up to 1TB, although they're VERY expensive. Also, almost every hard drive these days is SATA II/III (SATA III HDDs are pointless though), so there's no worry for that.
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This is true and I can testify. My dad's 120GB Vertex lasted a year and a half then it quit. RMA'd. Replacement one failed in TWO DAYS. Third one now works ok (so far).
My netbook also has a Vertex II which hasn't had any issues yet, but I barely use the netbook.
IIRC SSDs only last 5 years right now due to a hardware limitation that gives them a maximum write limit at which point it becomes read-only. (NAND flash memory)
For this you need to properly configure your OS to save updates to a HDD and other user files on a HDD and use a HDD for most games/high write programs or it will hit this limit in less than 5 years.
That was what I was afraid of.
I'll probably look back into SSDs when prices drop and lifetime increases.